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Breaks Windows 11 25H2 boot with the new NVMe driver enabledΒ #1640

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There's a new NVMe driver in Windows: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-hack-Higher-SSD-speeds-with-new-Microsoft-NVMe-driver.1190489.0.html that is supposed to offer better performance with SSDs, it's already available on Windows Server and can be enabled on Windows 11 25H2 via registry.

However doing so with a system partition encryption enabled breaks Veracrypt boot. Windows seems to be fortunately able to recover from that and disable the driver automatically after a failed boot, but this is bound to create problems for sure.

Expected behavior

Boot

Observed behavior

failed boot, restart & recovery

Steps to reproduce

  1. Windows 25H2 with the latest updates, enable 3 registry keys mentioned in the article
  2. Restart

Your Environment

VeraCrypt version:
1.24.27

Operating system and version:
Windows 11 25H2

System type:
64-bit

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