hello guys, I'd like to ask you for help, tips... I have a problem to access files/folders located on Truecrypt partition. I have 1.5TB disk, with two partitions. One is ordinary NTFS, second is truecrypt one. At the beginning my external drive was used with Windows. Later I attached it to my raspi as my homeserver for everything. The truecrypt partition (ntfs) is my music library. So I decided that I create inside this big Music folder new subfolders like A, B, C.... Moving of files was without problems (it seems so), but then problems have appeared. I can no more access those newly created folders. I see the filestructure, but cant go into newly created folders A, B, C, .... I am not sure what could caused the problem.... NTFS driver on archlinux? Veracrypt on archlinux? The drive seems unresponsive whenever I try to access those folders... mounting the partition into truecrypt as readonly and check the volume/partition inside Truecrypt gives me the massive list of messages of type: File record segment XXXXX is unreadable... I already ordered new external drive... I just wonder if this is some trivial stuff, like CHKDSK will fix it, or not? Should I make an identical copy of whole drive or just truecrypt partition? Any suggestions until I get new external drive? It is just my music library, so it is not an end of the world, but still good lesson into data backup.... Thank you!
Do you still have access to that Windows computer to try using that? Any Windows computer will work. You can place VC portable on a USB stick and mount VC on any computer where the user has Admin privs (may have to use UAC but no big deal). In other words a friends computer need not have VC/TC installed on it if portable is used. Did you convert the old TC header to the newer VC header on the external? If not, I assume you are using TC mode via VC? If you are "done" with Windows and now use only Linux then perhaps you should consider EXT3 or EXT4 filesystems versus NTFS. That should be a fairly quick turn around. Try Windows since you created the archive using that OS. It really shouldn't matter, but sometimes it just does. Let us know. ps - just to be clear. Are you saying that the TC volume opens fine and you can see and use everything inside it except those new folders?
Hello Palancar, thanks for reply. yes, I still have that Windows computer and also TC installed. I already received a new external drive, so at this moment I run HDD Raw Copy Tool to have an identical copy of that original drive (I hope it is good idea). What I however think is that original drive may be hw defective and it may be responsible for that mess on filestructure. Why do I think so? Because recently I started to observe strange behaviour of this hdd device... it simply started to change from sda -> sdb -> sdc whenever I checked what is going on with "(un)mounted tc partition", also S.M.A.R.T. values are in case of this particular device unknown.... I guess I should start with some vendors diagnostic tools first.... but at this moment I will finish raw copy....
May be an indictator of bad sectors, or even a failing drive. S.M.A.R.T Values of the drive should give you some insight. Try CrystalDiskInfo for example. Bad sectors. I hope you can finish copying all sectors to your second drive.
