Selected or all favorite volumes can be mounted automatically whenever its host device
gets connected to the computer. To set this up, follow these steps:
1.
Mount the volume (to the drive letter to which you want it to be mounted every time).
2.
Right-click the mounted volume in the drive list in the main VeraCrypt window and select
‘Add to Favorites’.
3.
The Favorites Organizer window should appear now. In this window, enable the option
‘Mount selected volume when its host device gets connected’ and click OK.
Then, when you insert e.g. a USB flash drive on which a VeraCrypt volume is located into the USB
port, you will be asked for the volume password (and/or keyfiles) (unless it is cached) and if it is
correct, the volume will be mounted.
Note: VeraCrypt will not prompt you for a password if you have enabled caching of the pre-boot
authentication password (Settings > ‘System Encryption’) and the volume uses the same password
as the system partition/drive.
A special label can be assigned to each favorite volume. This label is not the same as the
filesystem label and it is shown within the VeraCrypt user interface instead of the volume path. To
assign such a label, follow these steps:
1.
Select Favorites > ‘Organize Favorite Volumes’.
2.
The Favorite Volumes Organizer window should appear now. In this window, select the
volume whose label you want to edit.
3.
Enter the label in the ‘Label of selected favorite volume’ input field and click OK.
Note that the Favorite Volumes Organizer window (Favorites > ‘Organize Favorite Volumes’) allows
you to set various other options for each favorite volume. For example, any of them can be
mounted as read-only or as removable medium. To set any of these options, follow these steps:
1.
Select Favorites > ‘Organize Favorite Volumes’.
2.
The Favorite Volumes Organizer window should appear now. In this window, select the
volume whose options you want to set.
3.
Set the options and click OK.
The order in which system favorite volumes are displayed in the Favorites Organizer window
(Favorites > ‘Organize Favorite Volumes’) is the order in which the volumes are mounted when
you select Favorites > Mount Favorite Volumes or when you press the ‘Mount Favorite Volumes’
hotkey (Settings > Hot Keys). You can use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to change the
order of the volumes.
Note that a favorite volume can also be a partition that is within the key scope of system
encryption mounted without pre-boot authentication (for example, a partition located on the
encrypted system drive of another operating system that is not running). When you mount such a
volume and add it to favorites, you will no longer have to select System > Mount Without Pre-Boot
Authentication or to enable the mount option ‘Mount partition using system encryption without pre-
boot authentication’. You can simply mount the favorite volume (as explained above) without
setting any options, as the mode in which the volume is mounted is saved in the configuration file
containing the list of your favorite volumes
