Truecrypt Drive Recovery With Password
Replies: 4 | Post Date: October 4th, 2007, 04:54 AM | User: Innomen | Forums: forums.devshed.comI've recently been experimenting with duel boot (xppro, ubuntu) and i foolishly failed to removed my truecrypt fully encrypted drive and it's mirror. When the dust settled i discovered that truecrypt would no longer mount either drive. Windows xp service pack two sees one drive as unformatted, and another as a 128 gb volume, which it is not, they are both 300gb drives. In case all my efforts to recover either volume fail my question becomes this. Is there a service or technique that would allow me to recover the data if i could provide the encryption scheme and passphrase?
As an american i am told to be paranoid that anything can be cracked. The truecrypt forums are a draconian joke and frankly even if it weren't under populated i have high hopes that a greater level of skill can be found here anyway as this place is the top computer specific response from google when given "cryptography forum".
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Posted On: September 21st 2007 . View 3 Replies .
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Posted On: 10-22-2009, 01:47 PM . View 14 Replies .
I have a 500gb samsung sata drive that i want to "dupe" to my new seagate 1. 5 tb drive. It's currently set up with two truecrypt'ed "hidden" partitions, each is 100gb each. I'd like to keep both intact and have them carry over to the seagate. Is there anything special i need to do before copying the data from the samsung to the seagate? Will the hidden partitions stay intact after duplication?
Also, i'm planning on using acronis true image home.
Posted On: 10-22-2009, 01:47 PM . View 14 Replies .
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Posted On: February 2nd, 2004, 02:04 PM . View 10 Replies .
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Posted On: 02-09-2008, 09:59 PM . View 15 Replies .
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Posted On: 1 month ago . View 1 Replies .
Hdd Recovery Issue
I have a serious hdd recovery issue, and don't know what to do. I have a 160 gig hdd, primary and secondary is the same. I started my comp (desktop) today and suddenly it went 100% working, and i cudnt even do shift+ctrl+esc for the task manager ( os: xp pro sp1). Its been stable for a long time so all configuration is fine. This is a instant error due to some anomaly , not configuration! Ok, so after a while i pushed the restart button. This must of corrupted the drive as it was reading or writing, as now the mobo detects the hdd, but yet it is not working (i/o error). The mbr doesnt detect the disk, (i get a geometry error, due to secondary disk being listed probably as primary. ) The boot loader is grub as i have a linux box as well on prim disk. This has nothing to do with the grub being corrupted either. It simply is that the primary hdd is having an i/o error, cos i restarted the computer while it was working? I have never seen a hdd been damaged by this before, and wondering if it was some malicious code, running the hdd on purpose like that to ruin it?
In any case, xp recovery doesnt work, and no point in resetting the mbr surely as my disk is recognised, but not accessible. Is there *any* way for me to fix the i/o, or somehow does anyone know a fix for such a problem. Please help, as i keep 4 logical partitions on the physical drive, and as long as it has this i/o error, i cannot format it and rerun an os installation on the c partition.
Posted On: January 13th, 2005, 11:54 AM . View 4 Replies .
I have a serious hdd recovery issue, and don't know what to do. I have a 160 gig hdd, primary and secondary is the same. I started my comp (desktop) today and suddenly it went 100% working, and i cudnt even do shift+ctrl+esc for the task manager ( os: xp pro sp1). Its been stable for a long time so all configuration is fine. This is a instant error due to some anomaly , not configuration! Ok, so after a while i pushed the restart button. This must of corrupted the drive as it was reading or writing, as now the mobo detects the hdd, but yet it is not working (i/o error). The mbr doesnt detect the disk, (i get a geometry error, due to secondary disk being listed probably as primary. ) The boot loader is grub as i have a linux box as well on prim disk. This has nothing to do with the grub being corrupted either. It simply is that the primary hdd is having an i/o error, cos i restarted the computer while it was working? I have never seen a hdd been damaged by this before, and wondering if it was some malicious code, running the hdd on purpose like that to ruin it?
In any case, xp recovery doesnt work, and no point in resetting the mbr surely as my disk is recognised, but not accessible. Is there *any* way for me to fix the i/o, or somehow does anyone know a fix for such a problem. Please help, as i keep 4 logical partitions on the physical drive, and as long as it has this i/o error, i cannot format it and rerun an os installation on the c partition.
Posted On: January 13th, 2005, 11:54 AM . View 4 Replies .
Data Recovery - Vista
My ibm ideapad woke up with "missing/corrupt bootmgr". Not good i know, but anyways i was just gonna back up my data and give it a fresh install and everything would be better. Right. No that would be too much to ask from ms. My normal means of data backup in this situation would be to just plug hdd into another computer and copy it off. However when i plug in the drive all the data seems to be hidden. From what i figure probably a vista security. How do i get the data off? The hdd with the data was vista and i'm using an xp desktop to get the data. I see the hdd fine. Just can't access the data. Does anyone know how?
I tried using a data recovery.couldn't think of anything better. Again i can see the data just don't have permission to access it.
Posted On: 11-15-2008, 09:33 PM . View 6 Replies .
My ibm ideapad woke up with "missing/corrupt bootmgr". Not good i know, but anyways i was just gonna back up my data and give it a fresh install and everything would be better. Right. No that would be too much to ask from ms. My normal means of data backup in this situation would be to just plug hdd into another computer and copy it off. However when i plug in the drive all the data seems to be hidden. From what i figure probably a vista security. How do i get the data off? The hdd with the data was vista and i'm using an xp desktop to get the data. I see the hdd fine. Just can't access the data. Does anyone know how?
I tried using a data recovery.couldn't think of anything better. Again i can see the data just don't have permission to access it.
Posted On: 11-15-2008, 09:33 PM . View 6 Replies .
Creating A Recovery Partition
I want to create a new recovery partition for my laptop, as the previous owner erased teh one that was on here to install a different os. My aim is to use this laptop as a testbed for working with installation cds and whatnot, and i'd like to be able to hit a button and restore teh machine back to a default state. Anyone have any resources for me?
Also, anyone happen to have the installation cds for a presairo 1200us?
Posted On: August 23rd 2006 . View 8 Replies .
I want to create a new recovery partition for my laptop, as the previous owner erased teh one that was on here to install a different os. My aim is to use this laptop as a testbed for working with installation cds and whatnot, and i'd like to be able to hit a button and restore teh machine back to a default state. Anyone have any resources for me?
Also, anyone happen to have the installation cds for a presairo 1200us?
Posted On: August 23rd 2006 . View 8 Replies .
Unformatted Partition Recovery
I just had a partition say that it wasn't formatted. Only one of them, from a hard drive that is split into 3 partitions. It had tons of music/mp3s/tv shows/games/backups on it and i am trying to think of how to get it back. Any ideas? Right not it is showing up as an unformatted 74gb partition in my computer and disk manager. Anyone ever have a similar problem as this? I am considering formatting it (with a quick format) then trying to use a data recovery program to get the data back.
Posted On: August 27th 2005 . View 11 Replies .
I just had a partition say that it wasn't formatted. Only one of them, from a hard drive that is split into 3 partitions. It had tons of music/mp3s/tv shows/games/backups on it and i am trying to think of how to get it back. Any ideas? Right not it is showing up as an unformatted 74gb partition in my computer and disk manager. Anyone ever have a similar problem as this? I am considering formatting it (with a quick format) then trying to use a data recovery program to get the data back.
Posted On: August 27th 2005 . View 11 Replies .
Hp Pavillion Recovery Problem
Hp pavillion recovery problem. How do i fix? When i put my recovery disk in it says this hp computer can't use recovery disk. And when i press f11 the screen just stays black.
Posted On: 1 month ago . View 1 Replies .
Hp pavillion recovery problem. How do i fix? When i put my recovery disk in it says this hp computer can't use recovery disk. And when i press f11 the screen just stays black.
Posted On: 1 month ago . View 1 Replies .
Reset Password
Answer:- which system do you use? On windows xp, try this:
Boot computer and press ctrl+alt+delete twice when you see windows welcome screen / login screen. It'll show classic login box. Now type "administrator" (without quotes) in username field and leave password field blank, press enter and you should be able to login windows. Now you can reset your account password from "control panel -> user accounts". If that doesn't or you use windows 7 or vista, try this:
1. Enter a computer that can link to internet. Download windows password recovery tool 3. 0 and install the software on that computer. 2. Run the software and create windows password reset disk by follow the instructions. 3. Eject the created cd/dvd and insert it into the locked computer. 4. Reboot the locked computer (it's necessary for you to change your locked computer's bios setting to make it boot from cd drive) and then follow the instructions to reset your password. 5. Now login windows and set a new password.
Posted On: 2 months ago . View 3 Replies .
Answer:- which system do you use? On windows xp, try this:
Boot computer and press ctrl+alt+delete twice when you see windows welcome screen / login screen. It'll show classic login box. Now type "administrator" (without quotes) in username field and leave password field blank, press enter and you should be able to login windows. Now you can reset your account password from "control panel -> user accounts". If that doesn't or you use windows 7 or vista, try this:
1. Enter a computer that can link to internet. Download windows password recovery tool 3. 0 and install the software on that computer. 2. Run the software and create windows password reset disk by follow the instructions. 3. Eject the created cd/dvd and insert it into the locked computer. 4. Reboot the locked computer (it's necessary for you to change your locked computer's bios setting to make it boot from cd drive) and then follow the instructions to reset your password. 5. Now login windows and set a new password.
Posted On: 2 months ago . View 3 Replies .