From 66e43753cbffa905807f94d3f624bb970b6cf2e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Reichmann <54814163+Van-Fouran@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 21:35:34 +0200 Subject: Added creation of Rescue USB Drive (#486) - In my tests it was not possible to create a usb Stick with Unetbootin like mentioned in this post: https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/features/thread/5453c652/#97df - I followed the instructions mentioned by Mounir IDRASSI in this post: https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/features/thread/5453c652/#8e81 - In my test the usb_format.exe does not work, but the Windows internal formatting led to the same results. --- doc/html/VeraCrypt Rescue Disk.html | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/html/VeraCrypt Rescue Disk.html b/doc/html/VeraCrypt Rescue Disk.html index b4ab54d0..b7710d50 100644 --- a/doc/html/VeraCrypt Rescue Disk.html +++ b/doc/html/VeraCrypt Rescue Disk.html @@ -97,4 +97,72 @@ To boot a VeraCrypt Rescue Disk, insert it into your CD/DVD drive and restart yo

If your VeraCrypt Rescue Disk is damaged, you can create a new one by selecting System > Create Rescue Disk. To find out whether your VeraCrypt Rescue Disk is damaged, insert it into your CD/DVD drive and select System > Verify Rescue Disk.

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+It is also possible to create a VeraCrypt Rescue Disk on a USB drive, in case your machine does not have a CD/DVD drive. Please note that you must ensure that the data on the USB stick is not overwritten! If you lose the USB drive or your data is damaged, you will not be able to recover your system in case of a problem! +
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+To create a bootable VeraCrypt Rescue USB drive you have to create a bootable USB drive which bootloader runs up the iso image. Solutions like Unetbootin, which try to copy the data inside the iso image to the usb drive do not work yet. On Windows please follow the steps below: +
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