Identify hidden volume

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Identify hidden volume

Forum: Technical Topics

Creator: marek mintal

Created: 2023-12-13

Updated: 2024-01-09

marek mintal - 2023-12-13

Hi there,
i´ve got a small issue... i´ve got the same hdd multiple times... one is just a hidden volume, the others are empty. None opens with the password, but i´ve gut a few possibilities... so... how do i know at least which one ist the right one?

Greetings

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marek mintal - 2024-01-09

up?

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RealTehreal - 2024-01-09

There's no way to detect a hidden volume - that's the whole idea.
In your case, you could at most do the following: read a nice potion of sectors from your drives. The drive with random data could be the encrypted one. This will only work, if the other drives are zeroed.

Greets

Edit: typo

Last edit: RealTehreal 2024-01-09

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