dooooooooooh ing IT!
Mind if I use your phone? If word gets out I'm missing, five hundred girls will kill themselves. And I wouldn't want them on my conscience, not when they ought to be on my *face*!
I hope you're being sympathetic, nodding in the right places, showing concern, etc., etc., before finally not being able to keep a straight face and pissing all over his parade!
One thing I will say, if you do install VeraCrypt, when you get to the bit where it may ask to format the drive, make sure you put NTFS in the format mode, I did it in FAT (default choice) first of all and it takes like 10 hours to encrypt! hence I am redoing it.