Hey, I've been struggling the past 5 hours trying to revive my computer to no success, help :(
So, I installed some new drivers and after a reboot Windows was broken.
I took all(I thought) necessary steps to avoid this, I backed up all my old drivers on a seperate disk, made Windows make a backup usb restorethingy and went ahead with the installation.
Everything powers on, all drives are detected, Veracrypt Boot loader loads, password is accepted, when Windows starts loading it crashes with a bluescreen and stating UNMOUTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME.
"Phew, good thing I backed up" pfff, as if it is going to be that easy.
When trying to boot and recover/repair/etc from my usb no Windows is detected (I guess cus it boots before veracrypt loads and decrypts the system drive)
When booting into Windows automatic recovery after it fails to load Windows, with veracrypt decrypting the drive, it cant do anything useful, and when opening up the cmd prompt from the recoverymenu and list all volumes it shows my system volume to be in a filesystem called RAW, and the rest of the drives NTFS.
is my installation lost forever? I've been searching around the web and it seems you can recover the filesystem quite easy using software, but, none of the solutions seems to have been applied to an ecrypted system drive and I dont dare to risk it before having some second opinions.
Should I go ahead and try to clone the drive and then try to restore the filesystem to NTFS?
How will that affect the encryption? If it is restored, will I be able to decrypt it?
I've also been thinking of installing a 2nd copy of Windows on the computer, install veracrypt and try to permanently decrypt the systemdrive, then try to recover it, but Im afraid it will brake veracrypt boot loader and make it even harder to decrypt:(
Anyone with any experience, or know of a fix?
I'll send u all of my bitcoinzzz if they're recovered
Windows 10 UEFI
Asus z97 pro gamer
Intel i5
16gb of ram
Intel SSD 330 120gb (c:\ and system drive) is now RAW
3 HDDs (D:, E, F) all NTFS
2 other partitions showing as RAW and hidden if i remember correctly
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At first clone/backup all data (sectors) e.g. via "dd" tool. it can help to avoid extra problems.
A) Connect the drive to other computer and try to mount
Select partition of volume C.
Select any letter
mount and use mount option "mount partition using system encryption"
B) Look at 62 sector of your system drive. It has to contain random data. (no regular digits) if it is ok - keys can be retrieved => data can be recovered.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Hey, I've been struggling the past 5 hours trying to revive my computer to no success, help :(
So, I installed some new drivers and after a reboot Windows was broken.
I took all(I thought) necessary steps to avoid this, I backed up all my old drivers on a seperate disk, made Windows make a backup usb restorethingy and went ahead with the installation.
Everything powers on, all drives are detected, Veracrypt Boot loader loads, password is accepted, when Windows starts loading it crashes with a bluescreen and stating UNMOUTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME.
"Phew, good thing I backed up" pfff, as if it is going to be that easy.
When trying to boot and recover/repair/etc from my usb no Windows is detected (I guess cus it boots before veracrypt loads and decrypts the system drive)
When booting into Windows automatic recovery after it fails to load Windows, with veracrypt decrypting the drive, it cant do anything useful, and when opening up the cmd prompt from the recoverymenu and list all volumes it shows my system volume to be in a filesystem called RAW, and the rest of the drives NTFS.
is my installation lost forever? I've been searching around the web and it seems you can recover the filesystem quite easy using software, but, none of the solutions seems to have been applied to an ecrypted system drive and I dont dare to risk it before having some second opinions.
Should I go ahead and try to clone the drive and then try to restore the filesystem to NTFS?
How will that affect the encryption? If it is restored, will I be able to decrypt it?
I've also been thinking of installing a 2nd copy of Windows on the computer, install veracrypt and try to permanently decrypt the systemdrive, then try to recover it, but Im afraid it will brake veracrypt boot loader and make it even harder to decrypt:(
Anyone with any experience, or know of a fix?
I'll send u all of my bitcoinzzz if they're recovered
Windows 10 UEFI
Asus z97 pro gamer
Intel i5
16gb of ram
Intel SSD 330 120gb (c:\ and system drive) is now RAW
3 HDDs (D:, E, F) all NTFS
2 other partitions showing as RAW and hidden if i remember correctly
At first clone/backup all data (sectors) e.g. via "dd" tool. it can help to avoid extra problems.
A) Connect the drive to other computer and try to mount
Select partition of volume C.
Select any letter
mount and use mount option "mount partition using system encryption"
B) Look at 62 sector of your system drive. It has to contain random data. (no regular digits) if it is ok - keys can be retrieved => data can be recovered.