Decrypting from Rescue disk extremly slow
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Hello!
I encrypted my windows drive and i would like to decrypt my drive so i can execute some external commands to fix my Windows. but the problem is that the decrypting process is EXTREMLY slow.
it went even more slower after i got a warning saying "read error, skip bad sectors?" (i answered as y on this question btw)
right now it looks like its reading 2MB per 1 second, this is horrible. i am waiting almost 2 days now and it still isint at the 50% mark.
it started around 950000MB
right now its at 636000MB
My drive has 1TB of capacity
i would like to ask why its so extremly slow? i know that my drive isint perfect and healty but it always did its job on windows, never crashed or anything. so a physcial hardware failure is not something that i see.
Why is it so slow? is there any way i can speed things up?
edit:
i also have another question, what happends if one tried to decrypt his drive with the wrong rescue disk? while the password is correct? does that even work? or will the rescue disk give a error?
Last edit: ASEye 2016-12-08
alright i have decided to cancel the decrypting process, but now when i want to get my data out by hooking it to my other pc and mounting without pre-auth it gives me an error:
Error: The process of encryption of the partition/drive has not been completed. It must be completed first.
does anyone have a solution for me?
i still can authenticate myself and boot into windows, but then my windows crashes with the same old error code that i got before i tried to decrypt. so it still accepts the password that i fill in. but why cant i use this in veracrypt itself? i have some data that i need to get out is there any way i can get them back? please anyone?
Last edit: ASEye 2016-12-09
Alright. i managed to get my data back by entering the rescue disk and resume the decryption from there. amazingly the speed increased when i resumed the process. i noticed that the speed slows down dramaticlly as soon as the rescue disk dedected bad sectors. when you press Y on the question skip all bad sectors. you have to ESC. wait for it to say OK for updating the headers. then shutdown and reboot and restar the decrypting process. that way you get your high speeds back while decrypting.
im very lucky that i had this rescue disk. i just wonder what would happen if i used the wrong rescue disk? since in the beginning thats what i thought...