HELP! Tried encrypting USB Key and now says "Device not ready"

[MitzEclipse]

Hi All,

I am using a SAN DISK Cruzer Titanium USB drive with U3 software. Instead of using the default software on the drive, I am trying to use TrueCrypt - the freeware encryption which seems to be popular online.

I installed truecrypt locally, then created a standard volume on the usb key (which seemed to take up the whole 2.0 gigs because there was no option to make a smaller sized encrypted volume)

When i try to mount the encrypted volume, i get the error "The Device is Not Ready". I am typing in the correct password.

I just want to start over - I'd like to format it completely, but there isn't an option with TrueCrypt nor can I right click on the drive and click format in windows - I get this error message: "There is no disk in drive H, insert a disk and try again"

Any help is appreciated!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Weird... Sounds strange, but have you tried in another USB port. Just a thought, because I was having strange stuff happen when I was using True Crypt. Put the drive in one socket, wouldn't even see the drive, but it would in another port. A minute later I'd try it again, and the original port would work...

 

[MitzEclipse]

Yes, unfortunately, i did try - i only have 2 usb ports on my thinkpad laptop t42 - each of them do not work.

any other suggestions is appreciated

 

[pcgeek11]

From their website:

Problem:

One of the following problems occurs:

1. A TrueCrypt volume cannot be mounted.
2. NTFS TrueCrypt volumes cannot be created

In addition, the following error may be reported: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."

Probable Cause:

This is probably caused by an interfering application. Note that this is not a bug in TrueCrypt. The operating system reports to TrueCrypt that the device is locked for an exclusive access by an application (so TrueCrypt is not allowed to access it).

Possible Solution:

It usually helps to disable or uninstall the interfering application, which is usually an anti-virus utility, a disk management application, etc.


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