Say you're encrypting an external drive, for example: With the drive plugged in and formatted, open VeraCrypt and choose Create Volume. Next, select Encrypt a non-system partition/drive and select ...

Windows NT4, 2000, XP, and Vista, as well as Windows Server 2003 and 2008, support the Encrypting File System for any disks formatted as NTFS ... AEFSDR can't solve every file encryption problem.