I had two RAID (mirroring) drives that I removed from the enclosure and installed into a 4 disc (bigger) enclosure along with two more identical new raw drives. The RAID type for this configuration is different to the older 2 drive device that had them running in. This change in RAID seemed to caused a problem with the truecrypt header on the used pair of hard drives as the drives will no longer mount when put in either the 2 or 4 drive enclosures, reporting "incorrect password or not a truecrypt volume". I am devastated that I have lost all my archives and would try anything to try and get it back and accessible again. In hindsight I should have bought another 2 terabyte and used that as a backup before plugging the drives in but I did not anticipate the disaster that eventuated. I have read older posts on the net from the user Dantz" about using WinHex to locate the header but all I have is non zero data in sector 0 only a load of 000000's and then a huge block of data further down the drive then 0's again in a gap at the end. I don't have a separate block of data that is apparent to me as the header (if I should be able to see this). I have tried to restore volume header from the backup embedded in the volume, however it says "incorrect password or not a truecrypt volume". I don't have a recovery disk and it looks like restoring the volume header doesn't work. The drive was prepared in Truecrypt as an entire partition that was not preformatted. This large archive is precious to me and I need to know what I can do to recover it, if it is at all possible. Regards, fb1
@fb1, I notice you posted exactly the same content as you did August 28, 2014, and you had no posts in between. That puzzles me. After eight years, are you still trying to retrieve the data you lost in 2014? If so, I hope there is someone that can help you. To me, it doesn't look promising. Encrypting data is all good and well, but in case of a disaster, most likely one loses all data. Keeping more than one backup or archive is the save way of doing things. Good luck.
That was a very nice pickup. And yes, the reason we encrypt files is so NOBODY can access them without the password - regardless of who they are and the reason they use.
I assume OP has a password. Problem is corrupted, partially deleted TrueCrypt container. That kind of mistake using RAID can corrupt filesystem and delete information also when encryption is not used. However recovery of remaining data is harder or impossible when encryption is used.
Hello all, Thanks for the replies from @Stupendous Man, @longshots and @reasonablePrivacy. I would still like to recover my data if possible but from your replies I am thinking that that is impossible. From other posts from user Dantz about using WinHex to locate the header I was hoping to recover my data. I do have my password for these drives. I have the enclosure and the drives set aside. I still hope that someone can give me a definitive answer that the data is unrecoverable. Regards, fb1
Have you tried the VC rescue? "If you repeatedly enter the correct password but VeraCrypt says that the password is incorrect, it is possible that the master key or other critical data are damaged. The VeraCrypt Rescue Disk allows you to restore them and thus to regain access to your encrypted system and data (however, note that you will still have to enter the correct password then). For EFI boot mode, select Restore OS header keys in the Rescue Disk screen. " https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/VeraCrypt Rescue Disk.html If you fix it, be sure to backup your headers.
