veracrypt/VeraCrypt

Always wrong password (preboot test)

patryz-Z opened this issue · 5 comments

patryz-Z commented

Hi, i have a problem with encrypting my windows.
Everytime when i am in the preboot test phase, after typing the password - veracrypt says it's wrong ( i am 100% sure that is correct, i was testing passwords like "a", "abc" ).

The solutions i have tried:

  1. Installed windows on two differents disks and tried to encrypt the system, but with no results (at this point i realised that this may be a bios problem )
  2. Restarted the whole bios settings to default (twice), one time by removing CMOS from motherboard, second time by just clicking reset to default
  3. Turned secure boot to disable and to enable
  4. Same thing as 3. with TPM
  5. Tried to convert disk from GPT to MBR
  6. Tried to encrypt windows with an older version of veracrypt
  7. Tried to set a PIM

Please help...

Maingron commented

I initially had that problem when I didn't realize the keyboard layout will change to qwerty for VeraCrypt during boot. I don't know your keyboard layout, but maybe that could be the reason, too?