Gojo

I was using Macrium Reflect to do my backups. However, I was alarmed by finding I was unable to mount a clone of my system disk that I made using Reflect. The disk was not running an OS when I was cloning, and the partitions were not mounted in Veracrypt during the process. Reflect is a GREAT product, but I think it only backs up partitions, plus certain other areas with information about the disk's layout. I think that it leaves very much of the unpartitioned space uncopied. I am concerned that...

I found out that the program called HxD sees encrypted volumes as plaintext if they are mounted in VeraCrypt. I used HxD to copy the mounted system partition to a hex dump file. It came out as plaintext. I made a standard (nonexpanding) VHD file slightly larger than the hex dump and then created a partition in the virtual drive whose capacity was equal to the size of the hex dump. I saved the unpartitioned bytes of the VHD as 2 files and then joined them to the hex dump, at the beginning and the...

I found out that the program called HxD sees encrypted volumes as plaintext if they are mounted in VeraCrypt. I used HxD to copy the mounted system partition to a hex dump file. It came out as plaintext. I made a standard (nonexpanding) VHD file slightly larger that the hex dump and then created a partition in the virtual drive whose capacity was equal to the size of the hex dump. I saved the unpartitioned bytes of the VHD as 2 files and then joined them to the hex dump, at the beginning and the...

That is the problem I just had. I've been using the EFI bootloader for months, and the loader just vanished into thin air. I did connect another hard drive to the computer first, and then reconnect the original hard drive to my computer immediately before the vanishing. That seems to have triggered the event. It seems to me that the bootloader wasn't installed to the disk, or it wouldn't have vanished. Bytes don't fall out of disks like dust when you move them around. I said in another post that...

I wrangled the OS out of its clench. More later.

Hi. That's a reasonable guess about what happened but I don't think I decrypted the volume while I was making the backup. My investigations have taken my computer out of service. I didn't think that removing the hard drive, inserting a new one, and turning the computer on would change the settings saved in the motherboard. After I did that, I put the system disk back in, and turned the computer on again. It did not run the Veracrypt EFI bootloader and request a password. The computer forgot that...

Hello. I got rid of my old backup image file which was missing the sectors marked by TRIM as unused. I made a new backup image with Macrium Reflect, while having the forensic copy option selected. So now my backup image should have everything from the volume saved. The file size of the image is as large as the capacity of my system volume. I restored the new image to a different physical disk. I connected the new physical disk peripherally to my computer running Veracrypt in Windows. Now the new...

By restoring my backup, I cloned the image of my system hard drive to an ordinary VHD file. The copy of the system volume does not mount in Veracrypt. Now I am cloning the image to a whole hard drive instead of a VHD file. I'm still wondering if this has something to do with TRIM in SSDs and a failure of the the backup software to copy the header. Is the header stored in sectors that TRIM might mark as unused? My backups are smaller in size than the available space in my volume. Virtually no amount...