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Hi everyone, I need your help to recover data from a usb stick encrypted with veracrypt.
I used it until yesterday, I know the password for sure, but for some reason (I probably haven't safely removed the usb? It's the only thing that comes to mind). I didn't format the pen by mistake, in fact I dont understand what happened.
Veracrypt no longer recognizes it as an encrypted volume and return this error:
"Operation failed due to one of the following: Incorrect Password, Incorrect Volume PIM Number, Not a valid volume. Source: MountVolume: 8424".
I looked around and tried, as I have read in other similar topics, to restore the volume header, but I don't have an external backup file and if I use the option "Restore the volume header from the backup embedded in the volume " the previous error reappears.
I tried to mount it using VeraCrypt on other devices and other systems but the error recurs promptly.
Also (I must say I'm not sure if it even appeared before when it worked) as soon as the USB stick, Windows tells me that "The volume does not contain a recognized filesystem. Check that all the required drivers for the filesystem are loaded and that the volume is not damaged".
What can I do to recover the data? Thank you very much for your help, I leave you some info and some screenshots below.
INFO:
Usb stick was encrypted with "Encrypt a non system/partition" and it was a Standard Volume.
The encryption algorithm was AES(Twofish(Serpent)) or Serpent(Twofish(AES)).
No hidden volumes were on the USB, it was the only volume.
The entire usb hd was encrypted so the size was the full hard disk of the USB.
Last edit: Mark 2020-09-19
The first screen, I also tried changing and removing the device path letter from the Windows "Disk Managers", but no results.