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#Truecrypt linux full

I'll briefly outline the strategy that I would begin with, but I'm not going to put down step-by-step instructions, as it would take many pages and we don't even know your full situation yet: There are also certain specialized programs that can sometimes help you find lost TrueCrypt headers (when you get the search area narrowed down enough), but they require a fair bit of technical expertise to set up. You will probably have to go in with a hex editor to look for the endpoints manually. You might be able to recover your volume if you can find the original starting and ending offsets of the lost encrypted partition. the partition's endpoint was changed (which is more likely). the embedded backup header near the end of the partition was overwritten or damaged, orĢ. Since you are apparently no longer able to mount the volume using the embedded backup header, we can assume that either:ġ. As soon as you change the boundaries or move the data, they break. And unfortunately, TrueCrypt partitions are extremely brittle and cannot tolerate any changes to their partition boundaries.

#Truecrypt linux software

The software merely sees an unused (and apparently damaged, from its point of view) partition and it assumes that the space is up for grabs.

#Truecrypt linux windows

This is an extremely dangerous thing to do, as none of the partitioning software, or even Windows itself, is able to recognize a TrueCrypt partition for what it is.

Installing Windows while an encrypted partition was present was your first mistake, but then you committed an even worse mistake: You repartitioned your disk in the presence of a TrueCrypt-encrypted partition. But luckily for you, your embedded backup header was still ok. You're not supposed to do that sort of thing without taking extra precautions. If you merely encrypted partition D, and then you reinstalled Windows in Partition C, then Windows would naturally overwrite the volume header of your TrueCrypt volume in Partition D. Tl dr My TrueCrypt encrypted drive became inaccessible after splitting a non-encrypted partition into two and installing Linux as dual-boot on a new partition.ĭid you use TrueCrypt to encrypt the operating system on drive C? From your description it doesn't sound like it, and thus a TC Rescue Disk would not be called for. Trying to mount it from Linux messed it up somehow.

Linux installation messed it up somehow (formatting in the installation process, or GRUB maybe?), I messed it up somehow when I created the third partition (splitting the original C: into 100 GB and 50 GB partitions), I would appreciate it if you can tell me where did I mess up and if there's any way to recover my encrypted volume. I tried researching the internet (this forum too), tried a few things, but I'm too scared to make it worse by experimenting further. I thought it might be because I'm trying from Linux but it would pop-up the same error from Windows too now.

#Truecrypt linux password

After installing TrueCrypt on my new Xubuntu, it wouldn't mount the encrypted volume: 'Incorrect password or not a TrueCrypt volume'.

#Truecrypt linux install

I then proceeded to install Linux Xubuntu on my new 50 GB partition, being careful not to accidentally format the encrypted secondary partition or the Windows system partition. So I've shrank my C: partition to 100 GB and created another one for Linux, about 50 GB (not sure which application I used, but I certainly did it inside Windows environment). In order to secure a partition for my Linux Xubuntu, I decided to take a chunk of my C: partition. I always wanted to install Linux as a secondary OS, so I finally decided to do it. I found a solution to tick 'Use backup header embedded in volume if available' and 'Mount partition using system encryption without pre-boot authentication' before mounting and it worked fine. After formatting C: and reinstalling Windows, my encrypted D: drive became inaccessible via TrueCrypt. Unfortunately I didn't create a Rescue Disk. I used TrueCrypt to encrypt the secondary partition (D: ). My hard drive has been split into 2 partitions since I got it, C: (system) and D: (about 150 GB each). Okay so, I will start from the beginning.