Recover from physically damaged hdd

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Recover from physically damaged hdd

Forum: Technical Topics

Created: 2018-09-19

Updated: 2019-04-17

Jose - 2018-09-19

Hi all!
I have an external usb full disk encrypted with Veracrypt (It was created as a Standard, not hidden volume).
I accidentally dropped it, and it suffered physical damage.
I'm consulting with a data recovery company, and they offer me to recover the data to a new hard drive (The old one is very damaged).
Will I be able to decrypt the new hard drive using my password, even if the hard drive is a new one?
Any help is very appreciated.
Thank you!

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Alex - 2018-09-20

if sectors with keys are not damaged data can be recovered.

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Arashster - 2018-09-26

Alex, any idea if this ticket can have it's data recovered? https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/tickets/234/

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- Alex - 2018-09-27
  
  Probably yes. See DcsFV tool. It can decrypt/encrypt any sectors ranges, any times and saves results to file.
  
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  - Arashster - 2018-09-30
    
    Thank you Alex. Is there a way to specify the mounted Veracrypt drive as the target physical drive?
    
    Specifically, in the DcsFV.cfg file, there is this line:
    
    <path>\.\PhysicalDrive0</path>
    
    How do I specify the mounted virtual veracrypt drive as the "disk" to scan (even though it's virtual)?
    
    Thanks,
    
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    - Alex - 2018-10-01
      
      Hi Arashster,
      
      Probably it is better to save results to file(not entire volume).
      Check contents. It has to be regular (not random). => data is decrypted correct.
      Next step is to locate bounadries of data encrypted (note: data might be encrypted several times).
      
      Do you use dcsfv_03.zip?
      
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Arashster - 2018-10-01

What if I mount the volume in Veracrypt in read-only? Is it okay to try to detect the encrypted portion that way (and read off the volume)?

I'm using DCS-2017_03_28.zip

Is that the latest/best version?

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- Alex - 2018-10-02
  
  dcsfv_03 is the latest and the most stable.
  cfg is different.
  
  detect - probably yes but I prefer to use dcsfv
  
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Santu Kundu - 2019-04-17

How to recover format volume data from veracript

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Santu Kundu - 2019-04-17

I unfortunately format after mount

On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, 17:02 Santu Kundu <mtdoc@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

How to recover format volume data from veracript

Recover from physically damaged hdd
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Santu Kundu - 2019-04-17

Please forwardsalution Urgent

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