braccamontes - 2020-09-29

hi, all,

I have had the entire disk encrypted for more than a year and love it. this is a HP desktop with Windows 7 (yes 7). i love windows 7.

I boot from VeraCrypt CD every time. I enter password at boot, i get to windows, life is great.

The other day I was trying to install a linux distro called Porteus ON A USB stick. I was iNSIDE windows and was trying to use this .exe that Porteus provides. Got the USB finished, rebooted, booted from USB, all good. Now I have a portable "computer" i can boot from anywhere i go.

BUT the darn thing must have done something to my boot on the HD!!. When I remove the USB and try to boot into windows, after i enter the correct disk encryption VeraCrypt password, i get:
"
SYSLINUX....
ERROR: No configuration file found
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
boot:
"

Again, I had no intention of dual-booting or anything! I simply wanted to have a portable pc on a USB stick with persistent linux on it!

What can I do?

I tried the restore VeraCrypt bootloader option from VeraCrypt rescue CD. No go.

Do I need to unencrypt the disk first or can I fix the boot issue without unencrypting?

Thank you,
Bracca