Why get I asked to formatie?

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Tomjoad

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Hi everybody,

I recently bought an external SSD hard disk. I saved the respective folders on it and everything was fine.
Then I wanted to secure access to it and implemented DiskCryptor. After "encrypting" the external hard disk with a password and re-connecting the hard disk with my laptop, I got the message "You must formatize the disk".

I got confused... Why formitize...? If I formatize, thnen 500 GB information will be gine and must be copied again.
Then I intuitively opened DiskCryptor again and clicked on mount - there I could enter my password and I saw the folders again on my hard disk.

So my question: Why do I get the message "formatize"?
 
I don't use the software myself, but if that message appears, while the drive is connected, and still encrypted, Windows detects the drive, but can't read the file system (mostly NTFS) and therefore assumes the drive to be unformatted or improperly formatted. This results in Windows offering to format the drive, which you have to decline in order to keep your encrypted files, which you can only access by mounting the drive via DiskCryptor.
 
because in the area where MBR/GPT points there is unreadable "garbage", because this data is encrypted, it should look like this without knowing the password and the encryption used

another question is that it is technically not difficult, if you have an installed driver and program, to simply hide such a partition from the system when unmounting it, specifying the partition type as some 17h for NTFS, anyway, you can only mount it from the program itself, so there is no need to show it among the other disks until the password is entered

but such behavior clearly indicates that there is encrypted data here, and not the result of some error, if this is neglected, then perhaps such functionality could be added, are there any feature requests here? write this proposal there
 
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