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 selected things in case there is a problem with my first-backup drive.
The TrueCrypt Vol holds confidential 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, making it 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.
I stepped out while it was dealing with the final batch-transfer, but when I returned to it not ten minutes later 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 I removed the drive-letter Windows wouldn't prompt me to format it first 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 and 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 it easily found all the moved-off normal folders/files which it then offered to recover and I have subsequently done with zero loss.
Importantly it also found a separate 400GB 'file' which was the TC Volume with the correct dates, size etc. I copied that off expecting to be able to mount it, but all that happened was the "Incorrect password or not a TrueCrypt Volume" window still appeared. But the password was fine, and the TC Volume is good, copied direct off the drive it has been stored on all the time!
SO .....
... what am I missing please?
I have the TC Volume clearly sitting on its drive inside an alleged RAW fog - can I make Win 7 see it there so I can (hopefully) mount it?
Separately I also have the TC Volume out 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 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 beyond the limit of my 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 from there as before, 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 and I'd be massively grateful!
Thanks.
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 selected things in case there is a problem with my first-backup drive.
The TrueCrypt Vol holds confidential 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, making it 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.
I stepped out while it was dealing with the final batch-transfer, but when I returned to it not ten minutes later 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 I removed the drive-letter Windows wouldn't prompt me to format it first 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 and 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 it easily found all the moved-off normal folders/files which it then offered to recover and I have subsequently done with zero loss.
Importantly it also found a separate 400GB 'file' which was the TC Volume with the correct dates, size etc. I copied that off expecting to be able to mount it, but all that happened was the "Incorrect password or not a TrueCrypt Volume" window still appeared. But the password was fine, and the TC Volume is good, copied direct off the drive it has been stored on all the time!
SO .....
... what am I missing please?
I have the TC Volume clearly sitting on its drive inside an alleged RAW fog - can I make Win 7 see it there so I can (hopefully) mount it?
Separately I also have the TC Volume out 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 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 beyond the limit of my 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 from there as before, 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 and I'd be massively grateful!
Thanks.