VeraCrypt vs FAT

When trying to use VeraCrypt on a Windows 11 system it kept crashing (BSOD) when trying to mount a VeraCrypt Volume. Found plenty of articles that more people had this issue, however none that stated what format the VeraCrypt Volume had. As my case didn’t involve using existing volumes did several tries and found that the file format seems to cause the issue. By changing the format to NTFS all is working well, however this does require to pay a bit of attention as FAT is the default choice, also on Windows 11. For people that have run into issues with existing used volumes one could opt to use a Linux (virtual) machine to move data over to an NTFS volume, as it is impossible to mount on Windows 11.

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