TrueCrypt partition will no longer mount
- by sparkyuiop
I am hoping for some advice to help me out of my situation, with luck.
I have a computer running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with 3 hard disks installed.
On my 2TB hard disk 2 (non-system disk) I have 4 partitions. One is for music, another for video, a downloads partition and a 500GB RAW Truecrypt encrypted partition / volume that I had setup to mount with 4 photographs used as keyfiles.
The 4 photographs are located in my 'Documents' partition which is one of four partitions on my 1.5TB hard disk 1 (non-system disk)
When I setup the disk encryption I did not (I'm 99% sure) create a password, I only used the 4 photograph keyfiles to mount the volume.
Recently my 1TB hard disk 0 (system / boot) started to fail so I decided to replace it.
I was going to clone the old disk to a new disk but decided that a fresh installation would be more beneficial.
Once I had transferred all the required 'User Data' from my old hard disk 0 (C: disk) I discarded it.
I reinstalled Truecrypt, pointed to the partition, selected my 4 keyfiles photographs and I mounted my encrypted volume with no issues. In fact I mounted it several times after re-installing Windows and after reboots.
Now all of a sudden when I try and mount it I get the message "incorrect keyfile(s) and/or password or not a Truecrypt volume".
Now I am not sure why this happened as I do not recall exactly what I did between last mounting the volume successfully and it not mounting. Here are some of the possible things I may have done to cause it to stop working but I am at a loss as to where to start to try and resolve the problem.
1. I had swapped the drive letters to a preferred order.
2. I possibly swapped the physical SATA connectors on the mainboard.
3. I enabled 'Hot Plugging' for the two non-system hard disk SATA ports and the DVD SATA port in the BIOS.
I have tried changing the encrypted partition drive letter as suggested in another post but this does not help. On my old system the encrypted drive was drive "X". I have about tried it with all the other free drive letters but alas nothing changes.
I do not recall what drive letter was allocated to the encrypted partition before I changed them all. I have not tried to change the letter back to what it possibly was to start with as I am happy with the current layout. I will try this is anyone thinks it would be worthwhile though.
I do hope I have managed to convey my situation in an understandable manner and live in hope someone could help me recover years of personal files.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read my post and for any suggestions you may offer.
Regards
Phillip Thorne (UK)
Anyone???
