How to Remove Encryption Please note that TrueCrypt can in-place decrypt only
system partitions and system drives (select
System >
Permanently Decrypt System Partition/Drive ). If you need to remove encryption
(e.g., if you no longer need encryption) from a
non-system volume , please follow these steps:
1. Mount the TrueCrypt volume.
2. Move all files from the TrueCrypt volume to any location outside the TrueCrypt volume (note
that the files will be decrypted on the fly).
3. Dismount the TrueCrypt volume.
4.
If the TrueCrypt volume is file-hosted , delete it (the container) just like you delete any other
file.
If the volume is partition-hosted (applies also to USB flash drives) , in addition to the steps
1-3, do the following:
a. Right-click the ‘
Computer ’ (or ‘
My Computer ’) icon on your desktop, or in the Start
Menu, and select
Manage . The ‘
Computer Management ’ window should appear.
b. In the
Computer Management window, from the list on the left, select ‘
Disk Management ’ (within the
Storage sub-tree).
c. Right-click the partition you want to decrypt and select ‘
Change Drive Letter and Paths ’.
d. The ‘
Change Drive Letter and Paths ’ window should appear. If no drive letter is
displayed in the window, click
Add . Otherwise, click
Cancel .
If you clicked
Add , then in the ‘
Add Drive Letter or Path ’ (which should have appeared),
select a drive letter you want to assign to the partition and click
OK .
e. In the
Computer Management window, right-click the partition you want to decrypt again
and select
Format . The
Format window should appear.
f. In the
Format window, click
OK . After the partition is formatted, it will no longer be
required to mount it with TrueCrypt to be able to save or load files to/from the partition.