Veracrypt overwritten Header

[John Cleve]

So i Changed my crypted ssd with a non crypted and later i Changed them back.
Now the crypted SSD wont boot with Windows.
And i tried with RescueCD which is not the original one because i lost it.
Plus i restored the Header with the wrong RescueCD.
Is everything lost now or can i somehow recover my data?

Thanks!

[RealTehreal]

I'm not using Windows and cannot assist in how to make it bootable again. But in case, you just want to access your data inside the encrypted device, you could insert it into a computer, boot its OS and mount the encrypted VC volume.

Whether the volume is now scrambled or not, I do not know. Maybe using the secondary header while mounting will make it accessible.

Greets

[John Cleve]

Thanks for your answer.
Yeah so there is no Backup Header because its a System encryption.
Thats the big Problem.
Access to data would be enough.

[Enigma2Illusion]

@bandorion

EDIT:
Since you restored the header with the wrong RescueCD, the procedures I wrote below probably will not work since the encryption key is different.
END EDIT

With VeraCrypt installed on the other computer, put your system drive into another computer as a secondary drive.

Use the Select Device button to select the OS partition of the secondary drive.

When you are on the password screen, click the Mount Options button to enable the "Mount partition using system encryption without pre-boot authentication" option.

Click OK and enter you password and the PIM value if you are using a custom PIM value.

Then copy the files off the mounted drive to another drive.

[John Cleve]

Excatyl this was really dumb. So is my data lost?

[Enigma2Illusion]

You can try the procedures I wrote to see if you can access the data.

Would you happen to have a backup with the Rescue ZIP file from the SSD?

Otherwise, I cannot offer any other solutions without the correct RescueCD.