truecrypt help - did a boo boo

tomos · 3 Mar 2009 at 23:44

encrypted a drive a while back and has been working fine.

a few days ago though, i added another drive and when it didnt show i went to system>disk management or whatever. i had a popup about a drive that wasnt initialised or without a partition or whatever and went through the usual.

can you see the mistake? it was the truecrypt drive that it showed me, not the other one :eek:

i havent done a full format or anything, just created a new partition. any chance of being able to recover the old partition or is it bye bye pr0n?

CaptainCrash · 4 Mar 2009 at 00:25

The encrypted data will still be there, but initialising the drive would have wiped out the TrueCrypt volume header information, making it completely inaccessible. If you can't actually see and mount the volume in TrueCrypt itself, I reckon hell will freeze over before you see your pr0n again. Sorry...

tomos · 4 Mar 2009 at 01:46

well, in truecrypt i can choose the drive manually through choose device and choose to mount - after typing the password in i get:

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Incorrect password or not a TrueCrypt volume.
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password is deffo right but am guessing some info it needs is missing now

lord filbuster · 4 Mar 2009 at 01:48

Yep, that data is as good as gone.

tomos · 4 Mar 2009 at 01:56

bod bless forums!!!

yippie kaye aye!

in case anyone else has the same prob - http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?t=13480

SlyReaper · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:11

tomos said:
bod bless forums!!!

yippie kaye aye!

in case anyone else has the same prob - http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?t=13480

You need membership to read that forum. Can I take it you managed to get your data back?

Rhys · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:23

I assume he has.

It goes to show the tinternet has all the answers all the time.

The Mad Rapper · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:27

Isn't the boot CD created for just this reason? Or does that only apply to an encrypted system drive?

CaptainCrash · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:49

Rhys said:
I assume he has.

It goes to show the tinternet has all the answers all the time.

Yes, I guess he was able to restore the volume header (presumably from an embedded backup)

If you can't mount a TrueCrypt volume, the volume header may be damaged.

If you created your volume using TrueCrypt 6.0 or later, you can try to restore the volume header from the backup embedded in the volume by following these steps:

1) Run TrueCrypt 6.0 or later.

2) Click Select Device or Select File to select your volume.

3) Select Volume Tools > Restore Volume Header to restore the volume header.

If you created your volume using TrueCrypt 5.1a or earlier, you can try to mount your volume with the command line option /m recovery as follows:

1) Install TrueCrypt 6.1 or later.

2) Press the Windows key and R on your keyboard -- the Windows Run dialog should appear.

3) Type in the following command (replace the last argument, \Device\Harddisk1\Partition0, with the path to your volume):

Code:
"%ProgramFiles%\TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe" /q /m recovery /v \Device\Harddisk1\Partition0

4) Press Enter to try to mount your volume.

(I suppose it's OK to copy & paste this from another forum... ? )

tomos · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:40

yep, although no backup was made. it got it from the drive itself