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Have you tried removing 7.2 and reinstalling 7.1a? 7.2 should not be used, it is a crippled, read-only version. 7.1a is the last "real" version of TrueCrypt. I

Have you tried removing 7.2 and reinstalling 7.1a? 7.2 should not be used, it is a crippled, read-only version. 7.1a is the last "real" version of TrueCrypt. If the encrypted volume was damaged and you don't have backups, you might be out of luck.

phct 11y ago
hey, yeap i did reinstall 7.1a but the problem persisted,i had a cable disconnected also and i decide to connect it,im dont understand much about hware but this cable connected or disconnected seems "optional" as the disk is detected and seems to work,this is a SATA disk btw,on cryptography mailing-list a guy replied: >Yes, the NTFS MFT is corrupted; your tools are telling you that much. The TrueCrypt container may very well be corrupted beyond the header that you restored. To what extent either is corrupted is impossible to tell based on the information you have provided, but the sector number and the MFT offset indicated would imply a storage device of at least 3*10^17 bytes (about 314,000 TB), which is clearly implausible. I don't think you need a cryptography expert; rather, you need a data recovery specialist, or possibly someone who knows the ins and outs of TrueCrypt as a product and its on-disk format. Or, if that is out of your budget, at least data recovery software. Now that you are able to open the TrueCrypt container, the fact that the data is encrypted on-disk should have limited bearing on any further problems, _if_ (which is a very big if) there is no further data corruption. i've tried to ask other places like http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/truecrypt-problem.380995/ http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/truecrypt-problem.380... https://forum.truecrypt.ch/t/truecrypt-working-but-drive-is-detected-as-raw/816/5 https://forum.truecrypt.ch/t/truecrypt-working-but-drive-is-... and https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/3wscf3/truecrypt_issues/ https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/3wscf3/truecrypt_is... but i did not get many help? how do i repair a TC volume/partition corrupted/damaged?

phct 11y ago

hey, yeap i did reinstall 7.1a but the problem persisted,i had a cable disconnected also and i decide to connect it,im dont understand much about hware but this cable connected or disconnected seems "optional" as the disk is detected and seems to work,this is a SATA disk btw,on cryptography mailing-list a guy replied: >Yes, the NTFS MFT is corrupted; your tools are telling you that much. The TrueCrypt container may very well be corrupted beyond the header that you restored. To what extent either is corrupted is impossible to tell based on the information you have provided, but the sector number and the MFT offset indicated would imply a storage device of at least 3*10^17 bytes (about 314,000 TB), which is clearly implausible. I don't think you need a cryptography expert; rather, you need a data recovery specialist, or possibly someone who knows the ins and outs of TrueCrypt as a product and its on-disk format. Or, if that is out of your budget, at least data recovery software. Now that you are able to open the TrueCrypt container, the fact that the data is encrypted on-disk should have limited bearing on any further problems, _if_ (which is a very big if) there is no further data corruption. i've tried to ask other places like http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/truecrypt-problem.380995/ http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/truecrypt-problem.380... https://forum.truecrypt.ch/t/truecrypt-working-but-drive-is-detected-as-raw/816/5 https://forum.truecrypt.ch/t/truecrypt-working-but-drive-is-... and https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/3wscf3/truecrypt_issues/ https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/3wscf3/truecrypt_is... but i did not get many help? how do i repair a TC volume/partition corrupted/damaged?