Windows 7 Home Pro / Truecrypt Would someone please check my logic ... I have been working through things and am now too close to it and think I am missing something very obvious! I have a 1TB ext drive. 400GB is a Truecrypt Volume, the rest is a second-backup location for some things in case there is a problem with my first-backup drive. The TrueCrypt Vol holds business documents/details/data going back over 20 years, and the 'Backups' portion plus two other portable drives contain Work, 1st-backups, and the selective 2nd-backups. I was moving the second-backups off the 1TB drive to a different location, leaving it as a business-info drive where I could then archive some things as well. It was simple bulk A-to-B transfer stuff. So afterward it should have been the same drive with just the TC Volume left on it. Instead however there was a window saying there was no file system, that it was a RAW drive, and it needed to be formatted. I felt however that Win 7 only thought it was RAW when actually it wasn't, and I reasoned that if there was no drive-letter Windows wouldn't prompt me to format and I could mount the Volume and go from there! But I couldn't check that out because with no drive letter Windows didn't see the drive so I couldn't point to it to mount it! To verify that the TC Volume was still there I used "icare Data Recovery Pro" which can see RAW data and easily found all the moved-off normal folders/files which it offered to recover. It also found a separate 400GB 'file' present which was the TC Volume with the correct dates, size etc., which I copied-off in order to mount it but all that happened was the "Incorrect password or not a TrueCrypt Volume" window appeared. But the password was fine, and the TC Volume is good copied direct off the drive it has been stored on! SO ..... ... what am I missing please? I have the TC Volume clearly sitting on its drive inside a RAW fog - can I make Win 7 see it so I can mount it? Separately I also have the TC Volume on its own, but TC either doesn't recognise the correct password or it thinks it isn't a TC Volume. I'm sure there must be a way to get that mounted? I haven't yet tried the "check/restore volume header" option in TC, but after that I am out of ideas! If someone more expert and clear-headed than I am can point to what I am overlooking, or can suggest a way to mount/access the TC Volume whether on its original ext drive or just sitting on my desktop as a standalone file, I'd be massively grateful! Thanks so much.
Just a quick follow-on this morning after some much overdue sleep! I misunderstood the "Restore Volume Header" option last night, so that's not relevant. I have just tried my final option to "use backup header embedded in volume if available", however no change - still the popup window stating "Incorrect password or not a TrueCrypt Volume" ... neither of which is the case. So now I am formally beyond my limit of experience and ability! Any observations or workarounds that could lead either to making the alleged RAW (suspected not) drive readable by Windows so I could mount the TC Volume there, or to an ability to mount the same TC Volume that I was able to extract/copy/recover from that drive using icare Data Recovery Pro, would be a total lifesaver. Thanks if you can contribute anything.
