True Image Home 11.0 B8.105 and TrueCrypt 7.0a || Lost drives after usage of TI
Windows XP SP3 // TIH 11.0 B8.105 // TC 7.0a
Konfiguration:
One System drive and 2 drives encrypted with Truecrypt (whole drive/partition)
Issue:
Did copy one USB-Stick using TIH to another USB-Stick.
USB-Stick copy did work fine, but when I ended copy process, TIH did invoke a Restart.
After the Restart, both encrypted drives could not be mounted anymore:
"No password or no TrueCrypt drive"
Findings:
I noted that TIH seems to have changed entries in the partition tables of the TrueCrypt drives.
The unencrypted system drive is still ok.
The encrypted drives are now shown in TrueCrypt just as Harddisk1 or Harddisk2.
The former "paths" as "\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0" are now missing.
1. Drive (System)
still: Harddisk0: \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
2. Drive (TrueCrypt)
former: Harddisk1: \Device\Harddisk1\Partition0
now: Harddisk1:
3. Drive (TrueCrypt)
former: Harddisk2: \Device\Harddisk2\Partition0
now: Harddisk2:
Is there a possibility to get the drives back?
Best regards
EL
Not a very good idea to link to a forum that requires registration for viewing.
This way your 'solution' is not available to read by others.
Have a nice life using TIH to copy usb sticks, which to me sounds quite ridiculous...
Well, did not realize that it was necessary to log into that forum to read this information, because I already was logged in.
But if somebody would have been in need to get this info, it would have been possible to register.
Anyway, I´ve copied the info below.
@ Frank Hunter
BTW: Copying a USB stick by using TI does make sense if it is a specially prepared Rescue stick.
But to be honest: It was the first time to do it that way and I noticed: Using TI seems to have some surprising side effects.
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Advice copied from truecrypt Forum:
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:
Run TrueCrypt 6.0 or later.
Click Select Device or Select File to select your volume.
Select Tools > Restore 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:
Install TrueCrypt 6.1 or later.
On your keyboard, press and hold the Windows key and then press R. The Windows Run dialog should appear.
Type in the following command (replace the last argument, \Device\Harddisk1\Partition0, with the path to your volume and if TrueCrypt is not installed in %ProgramFiles%, replace %ProgramFiles% with the path to TrueCrypt):
Code:
"%ProgramFiles%\TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe" /q /m recovery /v \Device\Harddisk1\Partition0
Press Enter to try to mount your volume.
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