Hi, I'm really after some help. I have a 250Gb SATA HDD that worked normally - full truecrypt 7.1a encrypted single partition / drive with bootable OS, Win 7, NTFS with pre boot authentication. Drive was setup disk wise as per standard Win 7 installer then Truecrypt was installed. Problem: The Pre boot authentication message appears displaying my custom Pre boot message, I enter the known password but fails to go beyond TC bootloader into OS. This has happened for no reason, no changes in TC config or password etc, maybe a bad shut down. Therefore I cannot access the data. Steps Taken So Far: I tried mounting the drive in a working system with options such as mount with pre boot authentication / use backup boot loader etc, TC message is always "incorrect password, not truecrypt volume" I have run Testcrypt, no partitions found. I understand is doesnt work with fully encrypted drives?. Windows sees it as a RAW formatted drive in MMC, offers option to format. I have run Testdisk > Shows a partition, select type 07 NTFS > lists bad boot sector etc. Is this standard output for Testdisk for TrueCrypt? Does anyone have any recovery options? I do not have the TC restore CD or key backups. I have taken a full image of the problem 250GB drive onto an external 2TB USB drive to work from. Any help or advice very much appreciated!
This is what I'm getting from Testdisk: TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, October 2014 Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org> http://www.cgsecurity.org Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63 Partition Start End Size in sectors P NTFS 0 0 1 30401 80 63 488397168 Boot sector Status: Bad Backup boot sector Status: Bad Sectors are not identical. A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access any data; even if the partition is not bootable. >[ Quit ] [Rebuild BS] [ Dump ] Return to Advanced menu
