Hello, I posted already on veracrypt forums. But I think VC is not same community as TC, and I am not sure if I get answers there. Now I found this good source of encryption discussions. I used TrueCrypt and configured it 5 years ago. Windows 7: C: SSD: System SSD PRE-Boot authentication - system volume encryption D: HDD: Normal Device was also encrypted - full volume encryption - One Data partition I only had one Password to enter in pre-boot Authentication to mout both drives. So the d: HDD normal device was also auto-monted on every boot. Now I used TrueCrypt GUI to change the Password, so I right-clicked on c: in TC GUI and changed password. But I did not think about d:. As I guess, I thought when I change the PW for c: TC sees that d: is auto-mounted with same PW and does the same. My Problem: After changing the password of the C: SDD System drive, I did a reboot. After reboot can enter my newly changed password correctly and my system is booting fine. Not a problem for my booting system SSD. But now my D: HDD is missing. I have no d: drive anymore and also can't encrypt the HDD device with truecrypt. Any idea how? I tried mout the missing volume (missing hdd) from "select device ..." Menu in TC GUI. I did several combinations of settings and selections. And i tried both passwords, the old password and also the new passowrd newly changed for c:. Bot nothing works. When I select d: as device and try to mount, TC says that the password is wrong or did not find a TC volume. I am very sure about the password, because I entered it for 5 years. Now I can't mount d: hdd with old password and also not with new password. . What should I do to get my missing D: HDD drive back and readable and again? And chance of getting more infos for you. How can I get more information an d: about finding some truecrypt volumes? I tried also "Restore Volume Header..." already. And on mount I check also the option "use backup header embedded in volume if available" but nothing works. Every time the same error message. Wrong password or did not find TC volume. Perhaps I configured for d: HDD a hidden volume, I am not sure it is 5 years ago. If it was a d: hidden volume, what can I do to bring TC to mount my hdd again? When somebody has a c: system device in pre-boot auth and also a auto-mounted encrypted d: device (full hdd volume), what happened exactly when changing the password for the c: system drive in the GUI? I have never updated TrueCrypt, so I have the same TrueCrypt installed as 5 years ago. TC boot loader 7.1a. Best regards Manni
side note: After change pw of system drive ssd c: and rebooting and having my d: hdd missing, I did nothing to windows 7 disk management. On windows the hdd disk is not active and not mounted. Should I mark it active or do something else in windows disk management to be able again to mount the full hdd device/volume again?
I fixed it for now, but I am very surprised. Can some one explain the following? After several more tries of mounting HDD (formely d out of TC and without success, I decided to change my System Partion ssd "c:" password back to the old one. I found under TC Settings "System Favorite Volumes" that "d:" was configured here. That's why it was mounted with every boot. After changing the pw for c: ssd back to the old one and reboot my PC, drive d: is back with all of my data. So I see, my missing HDD full volume encryption is back again. But I don't understand why. 1. Why I cant mount my HDD full volume encryption itself, without having the same PW on system c: encrypted? 2. Anybody can explain me now, what I have to to, to change my encryption PW for both c: (system ssd) and d: (data hdd)? So I can auto-mount both after pre-boot auth, but with new password?
If you add a System Favorite Volume (D:), it is automatically mounted with the pre-boot authentification password (C:) After changing of the pre-boot authentication password, the password for your System Favorite Volume (D:) is different and it can't be mounted. Try to change the password for both (C: and D:) So you have the same password (Pre-Boot authentication password == password for the System Favorite Volume)
Thanks. Ok. I can try to change the d: HDD password first, then the c: sdd system drive PW to the same. But somebody knows why I can't mount my D: HDD drive itself in TC after changing PW for c: system drive? That means, I can not use my d: HDD without booting from c: when d: HDD is System favorite?
It's not working for me. I can't change the PW for the System Favorite D: HDD (or I don't know how). When I select the device (the correct partition) which is shown in System Favorites for d: and choose "change Volume Password" (and enter correct PW as for c, TC tells me again, that it is wrong Password or don't find TC volume. But there must be a TC volume, because it's mounted as encrypted system favorite at boot. It's the same error I get, when I changed PW for C: and tried to mount D: manually after reboot in TC. So I think it's mainly the same reason, because I cant' mount d: manually after changing PW for system drive. Any other idea? Best regards Manni
Try to remove D: from System Favorites (and unmount it) before you change the password for it. Are you able to change the password now? If yes, you can change the password for C: too. Now they have the same password and you can add it again to System Favorites. (If they are not sharing the same password, it will fail to mount)
I don't get it. I followed your advice and did this: - remove d: HDD from System favorites - Make a PC restart - D: HDD was not mounted anymore (as suggested) - Tried "select device" HDD-Partition1 and to change PW for d:, but again "Password wrong or not a TC volume" Error - Then I wanted to mount d: hdd again, so again "select device" HDD-Partition1 and clicked on "mount" and it was mounted again. I didn't even had to enter my password, that was surprising to me. It seems that TC is trying system password and if it works don't ask for pw. So d: hdd was mounted again and I could add it as system volume again. So i learned a bit of new things, but same as before, I could not change the password for d: hdd. - Info: After I remove d: hdd from system favorites and restart pc and d: mounted it again, I could click "volume properties" for d: to check if everything fine. And yes, when mounted TC is showing me that d: hdd is AES encrypted everything is fine also with backup header. So no problem seen. But I have no idea why I can't change the password. :-( More ideas?
This is puzzling. Is the following option enabled? TrueCrypt - System - Settings: "Cache pre-boot authentication password in driver memory (for mounting of non-system volumes" If it is enabled, this should explain this: And in addition "Wipe cached passwords" in the Tools-menu of TrueCrypt can be seen. You can wipe the cached passwords and now try to change the password again for D: If you have special characters or y/z in your password and are using a non-US keyboard layout, read the next section: Especially on systems with a non-US keyboard layout: If you are entering "yes" at the pre-boot authentication prompt, the password for mounting of D: is actually "zes" The pre-boot authentication password is always entered on a US keyboard layout, but after booting of the system with a non-US keyboard layout the password could be entered wrong. Make sure to switch to the US keyboard layout before entering the password in the "Change password or key files"-dialog.
Thanks for the Keyboard tip again, it solved the puzzle. Before, I was sure my PW has to be entered in my local Keyboard-language. Why? -> Because I changed already my PW for c: SSD, and it's the same as for d: hdd system favorite. The problem was, I didn't notice that TC is so clever, to change my keyboard-lang in Windows to EN on changing password of system drive c:. TC do the Keyboard-lang change without even make a pop up or notice, so I missed it. Because TC makes the Keyboard-lang change on system drive c: automatically, I was so sure about the Password also for d: But in the end, I typed all the time the wrong password at password-change for d: hdd, because I never changed Keyboard-lang manually to EN for changing d: Now I did the following, and everything worked: - remove d: as system favorite - reboot PC - changed PW for D: HDD with "select device" and select the before mounted partition. On PW change, set Keyboard-lang to "EN", of course for both PW, the old and the new one. - changed PW for c:, TC makes the Keyboard-lang change to "EN" automatically, changed the PW to the same PW as the new d: password - mounted d: again - added d: as system favorite again - reboot PC and could use new password - all runs fine I am not sure if reboot and remove system favorite is needed, but like this it worked. Big thanks!!!
Btw.: You can mention the solution for your issue in the Veracrypt-forum. Maybe the other poster in the Veracrypt-forum has also used a wrong keyboard-layout.
