john doe - 2019-12-11

I encrypted a laptop and got stuck in a "automatic repair" bootloop and needed to manually boot into veracrypt's EFI file to get the computer to work. Unfortunately, I followed these directions here to fix it:

https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/f403d1d8/

That's when everything really went south. No longer could I boot into the encrypted system partition, the VeraCrypt rescue files that I have from encrypting the system drive do not work (fails to decrypt, etc).

I finally managed to get the partition mounted by removing the hard drive from the computer, putting it in another computer, running veracrypt, selecting the system partition and a drive letter from the menu, and using the mount options:

-Use backup header embedded in volume if available
-Mount partition using system encryption without pre-boot authentication

I can't manage to back up all of the files (such as user files, explorer won't give me permission to copy those) but if I right click the mounted partition in the drive letter list and try to decrypt, it refuses to.

This is a very urgent matter and I need the laptop decrypted so I can boot back into Windows immediately. If there is any way to decrypt this system partition, please let me know.

Thanks