I use Veracrypt to encrypt a partition of a USB 2.0 flash disk months ago on Linux (approximately the time when Veracrypt 1.25.7 was released). After that, everything goes fine; However yesterday I mounted the partition, but while I was reading data, bad message was shown and garbled data appeared. After I remove the partition and retry , the partition disappeared. All I could see was like:
In the above, sdb refers to the USB disk, it ought to have a partition called sdb1; Also, I'm not able to mount sdb with Veracrypt.
There seems to be no significant physical damage. Although I've not mounted the USB flash disk for about 2 months.
More details:
OS: Arch Linux
Veracrypt Version now: 1.25.9
USB disk vendor: Kingston
What I've tried:
Use Fedora 36
Use another computer
These data are important, is there any way to recover all of them?(Perhaps, because I succeeded in accessing part of them in a lucky try)
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It's common for USB keys to become corrupted every now and then. Therefore, the only way to possibly get access to your data again would be:
- recreate the partition as raw. It's mandatory to use the same range on the USB key like the original partition. And never overwrite / format - this would destroy any data left
- Try to mount (which will likely fail).
- (In case it is advised by VC, try to mount using the backup header.)
- In case, the volume can be mounted, but the file system got damaged, mount it without actually mounting the file system (there is a mount option for this). Then run your preferred data recovery tool on the mounted raw partition.
Other possible solution: Wait for the USB key to cool down. Then try to access it again. This way, I was able to access a volume on a SanDisk USB key again, as it always became too hot. This had nothing to do with VC, though.
Good luck!
Greets
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I use Veracrypt to encrypt a partition of a USB 2.0 flash disk months ago on Linux (approximately the time when Veracrypt 1.25.7 was released). After that, everything goes fine; However yesterday I mounted the partition, but while I was reading data,
bad messagewas shown and garbled data appeared. After I remove the partition and retry , the partition disappeared. All I could see was like:In the above,
sdbrefers to the USB disk, it ought to have a partition calledsdb1; Also, I'm not able to mountsdbwith Veracrypt.There seems to be no significant physical damage. Although I've not mounted the USB flash disk for about 2 months.
More details:
USB disk vendor: Kingston
What I've tried:
Use Fedora 36
These data are important, is there any way to recover all of them?(Perhaps, because I succeeded in accessing part of them in a lucky try)
It's common for USB keys to become corrupted every now and then. Therefore, the only way to possibly get access to your data again would be:
- recreate the partition as raw. It's mandatory to use the same range on the USB key like the original partition. And never overwrite / format - this would destroy any data left
- Try to mount (which will likely fail).
- (In case it is advised by VC, try to mount using the backup header.)
- In case, the volume can be mounted, but the file system got damaged, mount it without actually mounting the file system (there is a mount option for this). Then run your preferred data recovery tool on the mounted raw partition.
Other possible solution: Wait for the USB key to cool down. Then try to access it again. This way, I was able to access a volume on a SanDisk USB key again, as it always became too hot. This had nothing to do with VC, though.
Good luck!
Greets