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New Post: All data became inaccessible

April 8, 2016, 4:12 am
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Yes, I would say initialize the disk, but I'm not sure if it is the right thing to do here and whether or not it might risk data.

In terms of data, everybody has backups right?????? You can't be putting things in to a VC container and not expect that it is possible that your hard disk or USB stick isn't going to fail you. Backups, backups and more backups... ;-) Then you can experiment and try to fix things that are broken if they are and maybe be able to try something that might help.
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Reviewed: VeraCrypt version 1.17 (abr 08, 2016)

April 8, 2016, 4:47 am
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Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - it was helpful to crypt THE PANAMA PAPERS! best thing ever!
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New Post: All data became inaccessible

April 8, 2016, 8:11 am
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New Post: All data became inaccessible

April 8, 2016, 8:16 am
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affinity wrote:
Yes, I would say initialize the disk, but I'm not sure if it is the right thing to do here and whether or not it might risk data.

In terms of data, everybody has backups right?????? You can't be putting things in to a VC container and not expect that it is possible that your hard disk or USB stick isn't going to fail you. Backups, backups and more backups... ;-) Then you can experiment and try to fix things that are broken if they are and maybe be able to try something that might help.
Thank you for your new message!
Unfortunately, not really: precisely, all data became inaccessible some just before starting the backup process (the HDD contains fresh material that was going to be backed up in that moment). Any other idea?
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New Post: All data became inaccessible

April 8, 2016, 8:20 am
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Alex512 wrote:
I am afraid i can not suggest anything at that point. It must be some problem with the drive itself. Other users may be able to suggest something in this case. Enigma2iillusion?
The only thing i can now think of is that the drive needs to be initialized, which suggests it might be a hardware issue. It is quite possible that the USB port is lacking power. I would really urge everyone here to read this post and suggest a solution as this is a case where someone really needs help!
Thank you so much for you reply and for urging everyone here to read this post and suggest a solution. That's really kind of you.
Yes, after reading affinity's comments, I didn't try to initialize the HDD, since this may involve an unrecoverable loss of data.
I would REALLY appreciate further help!
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New Post: All data became inaccessible

April 8, 2016, 10:55 am
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does your usb HD get power from the usb cable alone or is it also plugged into the wall?

Can you post screenshot from the disk management when the volume is NOT decrypted?

what is certain is that the header is ok as VC reads the properties of the partition after its being decrypted. From there onwards, something goes bad... maybe the partition tables? Come on guys, there are so many of you knowing about this stuff! This question is much more important, although for one person only, than "is AES secure?"....
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Commented Unassigned: All data became inaccessible [432]

April 8, 2016, 1:09 pm
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Hi! Yesterday, everything was OK. Today, I have a BIG problem. Please, help me out!
I am using VeraCrypt 1.17 (64-bit) under Windows 8.
I encrypted a whole external 1 TB USB HDD by creating both a a normal volume and a hidden volume.
Everything was OK: I was able to mount both volumes with their respective passwords.
However, suddenly, THIS happened:
The volumes can still be mounted (normal = 931 GB and hidden = 929 GB), but when I right click on them and select "Open" from the menu, this error message appears: "You need to format the disk in drive N: before you can use it". Also, the HDD is not seen by Windows Explorer. Please, see the attached images.
I had valuable information inside the HDD. Could you please help me out?

![Image](http://i.imgur.com/OgtRmZK.jpg?1)
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Comments: If you are willing to use the DriveCleanup utility below to remove all currently non present USB Storage Devices, Disks, CDROMs, Floppies, Storage Volumes and WPD devices from the device tree. Furthermore it removes orphaned registry items related to these device types. I request you use version 0.9.0 since I have not tested 1.2.0 version that was recently released. The 1.1 version did not wipe existing devices from the registry. Create a directory and unzip the software files into the directory. Start a command line prompt as Administrator. In the command window, change into the directory where you unzipped the files. If you are using 64-bit Windows OS, change into x64 subdirectory. Dismount all VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt volumes. Use the following command to view what the DriveCleanup utility will remove from the registry: drivecleanup -T To remove items the registry: drivecleanup Reboot PC after running utility. Any USB that was not currently connected to your PC will be install again by Windows and you may have to manually reassign the drive letters in Windows Disk Management if you had certain drive letters for an external hard drive or thumbdrives. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/drivecleanup090.zip I have performed this numerous times on my Win 7 Pro 64-bit Windows system to remove all registry entries including valid devices due to tests with file containers. If anyone knows of a better free utility, please post it.
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Source code checked in, #dfde4d52656e6655a39c8a15a5c049bc34de6958

April 8, 2016, 2:52 pm
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Windows Setup: Add missing Apache files used by the installer
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Source code checked in, #7eb0ea13884f6cc1d4d47b538e3f45f163aeee68

April 8, 2016, 2:52 pm
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Windows: allow drag-n-drop of files and receiving Explorer restart message when VeraCrypt running as elevated process.
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Source code checked in, #1026310c91dbe3f3bab2426dabc3a008230cadbf

April 8, 2016, 2:52 pm
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Windows: start implementation of volume ID mechanism that will be used to identify VeraCrypt disk volumes instead of device name.
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Commented Unassigned: Intermittent "Error: No bootable partition found." on booting [423]

April 9, 2016, 7:45 am
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I have my system drive encrypted with VeraCrypt 1.17. Occasionally when I first turn on the computer and enter the password and PIM at the VeraCrypt prompt it says "OK" and then

Error: No bootable partition found.

sometime followed by "Booting..." - but then just hangs there. If I reboot (and enter the password again) it boots fine. So, obviously, there is a bootable partition. The drive is an SSD, if that matters.
Comments: This is happening quite frequently now. Every day or two. Is it a VeraCrypt bug or should be worried about my drive?
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New Post: Veracrypt 1.17 Win10x64 Mount Fails

April 9, 2016, 9:39 am
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I have the same error code win10-x64 when I try to convert a TrueCrypt (TC) volume to a VeraCrypt (VC) volume by changing the password.

The error occurs when you try and mount the VC volume after VC has completed whatever it does when you change the password. I was using the same password for the new password as was used on the original TC volume.

Good job I tried it on a copy first.
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New Post: Veracrypt 1.17 Win10x64 Mount Fails

April 9, 2016, 11:39 am
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I just tried and created brand new VC volume, then changed the password and could mount it with the new password without problems. On Windows 7 though.
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New Post: Problem if I cannot turn on my Pc with VeraCrypt installed

April 10, 2016, 2:44 am
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Hi, please I need an advice,

A friend of mine installed VeraCrypt on my D drive but I had a strong doubt : I have Windows 10 installed on the C drive, while the D drive is protected by VeraCrypt like I said... if one day I did not succeed to turn on my PC for any reason, how could I decrypt the data from the disk D?

I have no idea, I'm not an expert at all, should I remove the D drive and attach it to a new PC and install again VeraCrypt ? But in this way I could lose all my back up maybe, what could be a solution ? Thank you
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New Post: Problem if I cannot turn on my Pc with VeraCrypt installed

April 10, 2016, 3:41 am
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The "D: drive" is not a backup, is it?

You need backups. VC has the data encrypted. If you want to lessen the risk of loss of that volume, then you need the data on it to be on different media (backed up), it could be another VC volume. You should also backup the header for the VC volume(s), in case they become corrupt for whatever reason.

With your backups, your key file(s) if you are using them and your password/passphrase, then the drive should be able to be decrypted on any new system running VC (without loss of data, unless there is media failure, but then you will have the backup volume won't you?).

It is actually likely that your friend installed VC in to the Windows installation, it may be a portable install, but is more likely to be fully installed. You need to talk with your friend and get some answers so that you know what is going on with your computer.
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New Post: Problem if I cannot turn on my Pc with VeraCrypt installed

April 10, 2016, 3:54 am
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Someone else has a more technical explaination when you say "With your backups, your key file(s) if you are using them and your password/passphrase, then the drive should be able to be decrypted on any new system running VC".

I belive that if I have VC on an another Pc, it has already installed and that means that I just dismount my D drive that I have attached phisically ? It's so simple isn't it ?
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New Post: Problem if I cannot turn on my Pc with VeraCrypt installed

April 10, 2016, 10:11 am
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Yes, if you have a drive that you can dismount, you can take it to another machine that has VC installed and you should be able to mount it on the other machine.
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New Post: All data became inaccessible

April 11, 2016, 2:13 am
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This is what I'd do:
  1. buy another HDD of the same (or rather bigger) size and backup the whole disk to the new disk 1:1 prior trying to do anything!
    I'd do this from a linux live cd using "dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=100M") where sdb is old drive and sdc is new. DOUBLE CHECK you know which drive device is which (external drives are usually sdb, sdc, sdd, etc), but BEWARE, you can easily confuse them, so at this step you can practically overwrite your original data disk with zeros, so make sure you know which drive is which!! To avoid confusion, disconnect your drives, run "ls /dev/sd*", see what devices you have, now connect original, run "ls /dev/sd*" again, note which device has been added, connect copy drive, and "ls /dev/sd*" again to note the copy drive device letter, now you can safely make your copy using dd command, which will take several hours, but if you have only usb 2.0, it will take half a day. Make sure your drives are properly powered, I recommend to use usb Y cables.
  2. reboot to windows, disconnect original drive and leave only the copy drive connected
  3. mount the copy drive, run (as administrator) cmd.exe (command prompt)
  4. from elevated command prompt run chkdsk x: /f (where x is your mounted letter) - see if this can fix your damaged file system
If chkdsk will fail, you can try some third party tool(s) for repairing filesystem, or you can extract your data using recovery software such as recuva etc.

Notes: 1. Be sure to recover your data to another physical medium! 2. Never try to repair your original disk, always work with a copy! If your efforts fail and your data are more important than your privacy, you can always pay a technician or a recovery company. If you disobey, work with original and screw up (which is easy to do if you are not a tech guru), not even God will be able to recover any of your data!
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New Post: Is it possible to change container PW from command line?

April 11, 2016, 2:33 am
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Take a look at https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Command%20Line%20Usage but changing password via command line is probably not implemented. For repetitive tasks via GUI you can use autohotkey. If you donate euro or more to vecracypt project, I can write autohotkey script for batch changing password and post here. If you like to have that implemented, make an issue (see menu above) and maybe idrassi will implement that in the future versions.
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New Post: 2 Feature Requests

April 11, 2016, 2:45 am
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Google is evil, I'd not poison VC project with anything from them. I have enough that I need to untick their bundled crapware browser everytime I download anything... If you are poisoned with google, you don't need vc at all.
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