it's been some time since I have been on here. I believe I have shoved the other HDD somewhere where it cant be found, if I find it, I may try to recover it again. I have once again done it, I accidentally deleted a volume, only this time its 2023 not 2015....I have more knowledge now. I have now backed up the header to a file, and am in the process of copying all 3.6 TB of data. It will take about 8 hours to do this. I will tell you the steps I have done so far without compromising my security. this is a 4TB drive (3.6) seagate and I believe I encrypted before data was on there. it is in GPT style , not MBR, which I think makes this harder. at first, I tested another partition....partition, deleted it and tried to create a simple volume again and mount it, viola, it worked......so I tried to do the same thing to the drive, didnt work......so I started reading some of dantz's thread again I do have a full working copy of winhex, so I found the start where the header should be, copied a 2GB block, mounted the file.......in winhex, it shows all the folders but some of the data wasnt there, I was able to open 1 file, so I thought all is not lost. I bought another HDD larger so I can create a clone and a file, I am creating the file now, when it is done I will mount it and let you people know the results and maybe go into greater detail about the steps I took
okay all my data is there in a file and all of it works .......the file mounted fine.....so the data on the disk should still be good now even though I have all of that and can access it, I still want to be able to fix the problem of where I deleted the volume with disk managment I am thinking of putting all zeros in the beginning of the volume...that way there is all zeros up to the start of the header and encryption...anyone got thoughts on that
