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diff --git a/doc/html/Removing Encryption.html b/doc/html/Removing Encryption.html index 6b5335b7..3f3bf139 100644 --- a/doc/html/Removing Encryption.html +++ b/doc/html/Removing Encryption.html @@ -1,66 +1,66 @@ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid</title> <meta name="description" content="VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files."/> <meta name="keywords" content="encryption, security"/> <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div> -<a href="https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html"><img src="VeraCrypt128x128.png" alt="VeraCrypt"/></a> +<a href="Documentation.html"><img src="VeraCrypt128x128.png" alt="VeraCrypt"/></a> </div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="Home.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/code/">Source Code</a></li> <li><a href="Downloads.html">Downloads</a></li> <li><a class="active" href="Documentation.html">Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="Donation.html">Donate</a></li> <li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/" target="_blank">Forums</a></li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> <a href="Documentation.html">Documentation</a> <img src="arrow_right.gif" alt=">>" style="margin-top: 5px"> <a href="Miscellaneous.html">Miscellaneous</a> <img src="arrow_right.gif" alt=">>" style="margin-top: 5px"> <a href="Removing%20Encryption.html">Removing Encryption</a> </p></div> <div class="wikidoc"> <h1>How to Remove Encryption</h1> <p>Please note that VeraCrypt can in-place decrypt only <strong>partitions and drives </strong>(select <em>System</em> > <em>Permanently Decrypt System Partition/Drive </em>for system partition/drive and select <em>Volumes -> Permanently Decrypt </em> for non-system partition/drive). If you need to remove encryption (e.g., if you no longer need encryption) from a <strong>file-hosted volume</strong>, please follow these steps:</p> <ol> <li>Mount the VeraCrypt volume. </li><li>Move all files from the VeraCrypt volume to any location outside the VeraCrypt volume (note that the files will be decrypted on the fly). -</li><li>Dismount the VeraCrypt volume. </li><li>delete it (the container) just like you delete any other file. </li></ol> +</li><li>Unmount the VeraCrypt volume. </li><li>delete it (the container) just like you delete any other file. </li></ol> <p>If in-place decryption of non-system partitions/drives is not desired, it is also possible in this case to follow the steps 1-3 described above.<br> <br> In all cases, if the steps 1-3 are followed, the following extra operations can be performed:</p> <ul> <li><strong>If the volume is partition-hosted (applies also to USB flash drives)</strong> </li></ul> <ol type="a"> <ol> <li>Right-click the ‘<em>Computer</em>’ (or ‘<em>My Computer</em>’) icon on your desktop, or in the Start Menu, and select <em>Manage</em>. The ‘<em>Computer Management</em>’ window should appear. </li><li>In the <em>Computer Management</em> window, from the list on the left, select ‘<em>Disk Management</em>’ (within the <em>Storage</em> sub-tree). </li><li>Right-click the partition you want to decrypt and select ‘<em>Change Drive Letter and Paths</em>’. </li><li>The ‘<em>Change Drive Letter and Paths</em>’ window should appear. If no drive letter is displayed in the window, click <em>Add</em>. Otherwise, click <em>Cancel</em>.<br> <br> If you clicked <em>Add</em>, then in the ‘<em>Add Drive Letter or Path</em>’ (which should have appeared), select a drive letter you want to assign to the partition and click <em>OK</em>. </li><li>In the <em>Computer Management</em> window, right-click the partition you want to decrypt again and select <em>Format</em>. The <em>Format</em> window should appear. </li><li>In the <em>Format</em> window, click <em>OK</em>. After the partition is formatted, it will no longer be required to mount it with VeraCrypt to be able to save or load files to/from the partition. </li></ol> </ol> |