(VeraCrypt) Encrypted? files after successful search for unlocked partition.

Discussion in 'encryption problems' started by kakei, May 13, 2022.

  1. kakei

    kakei Registered Member

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    Good day!

    At first I would like to express my gratefulness for all the help I was able to find on the forum with previous thread and especially Dantz's help with his brilliant solutions.

    Apparently... I expected a problem.

    First of all: During reinstallation of Windows 10 from the USB image I accidentally deleted partition on a disk with VeraCrypt data, I did not format it or do anything else, but after Win installation (other disk), disk image creation with DMDE and searching for first data signatures with HxD (Offset: 7E0000) I copied the first 3F0 offset data and saved it as a header (the same with last data signatures).

    I was able to restore a header on a backup file and succesfully mount the volume. While I left some space and quick-formatted it as a NTFS filesystem (from RAW) I succesfully found files within their original directories and Lost&Found directory.

    Some files are working flawlessly and are decrypted, but unfortunately most of them (about 90%) are encrypted (or damaged?). Hex-edit of these doesn't even show header of JPG, EXE and other extension files, they do look like encrypted data from before mounting the volume. I tried editing them, connecting to VeraCrypt, but nothing works. There are just some original directories, filenames (every file name was decrypted).

    I would dig deeper into the Internet for answers, but due to work I cannot do more research.
    Data restoration/decryption services are not an option. There are lots of important data.
    Any software recommendations are good, but please no advertisements.

    Some info:
    OS: Windows 10 (latest)
    Partiton disk: WDC WD5000AAKX 500gb (462 gb used out of 465), NTFS filesystem. Always the same drive letter.
    Veracrypt: Whole non-system partition encryption with Kuznyechik(AES), mounted always on the same letter, key-file used, no restoration disk, could not find backup header on the end of the disk.
    Disk image: *.bin, whole drive clone.

    Thank you for your interest in the thread!
    Wish you a great day,
    Mr. Kake:i
     
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