Recover TrueCrypt Partition

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Recover TrueCrypt Partition

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Jan Lehnhardt

Created: 2016-01-07

Updated: 2016-02-12

Jan Lehnhardt - 2016-01-07

Hi all,

I have an external drive that contained two partitions of 100 GB and 365 GB, the latter of which contained a TC partition very valuable to me. I accidentally formatted the drive using Win32 Disk Imager such that it now has only one 256MB partition; the rest is shown as RAW by Windows' Disk Management.

Is there any chance to recover that partition? From my understanding its encrypted content should be unharmed, or am I wrong?

Thanks in advance, Jan

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WRVC2016 - 2016-02-12

I have not used but you may want to look into "TestCrypt.exe".

I believe it recovers exactly what you did. Please provide feedback if it works.

Thanks

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- Andreas Boehlk - 2016-02-12
  
  I am sure that this is the wrong way to start with. As I understood, Jan has formatted the complete HD now and there are no visible data/partition structure.TestCrypt is made for retrieving data out of damaged containers, as far I know. Therefore, in case no data was written, the first step would be a 1:1 copy of the formatted drive (eg. dd). With that copy one should try to apply an undelete software for partitions. If you are lucky after that you are able to get access to the recovered via TC/VC. Only in case of being unsuccessful (perhaps a different recovery software has better results) You can try with TestCrypt.
  
  Good luck
  
  Andreas
  
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