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| 588038 | 2007-09-05 02:23:00 | Ok, you may recall i posted a couple of months ago about TrueCrypt problems that i had - well i have another problem. I have XP and Vista Ultimate on my computer (dual boot) and i usually just boot up to XP and do all of my work there. Today i booted up to vista and was doing some stuff and i needed to get a file off one of my True Crypte volumes. No problem (i thought) so I installed true crypt (on vista), ran it, clicked 'select device' and my physical drive was showing but not the two true crypt logical partitions. I had the same problem before in XP so i opened up Disk Managment and sure enough - there were my two logical (true crypt) drives. I figured that it was kinda odd that they weren't showing up in TrueCrypt. I noticed that they had drive letters assigned to them and me in my ulimate wisdom (i think i have just won the n00b of the week award here) figured that because TrueCrypt assigns the devices a drive letter when it mounts them it didn't need one here, so maybe that was the problem. I removed the drive letters of these two logical drives and TrueCrypt still wouldn't recognize them. Fine, i booted up into XP (where i have had no problems with this before) and went to mount the truecrypt volumes and copy the files onto my Vista partition but now truecrypt decided not to recognize them under xp either! Even though it was only a few minutes ago that i was in XP and it was fine! So i opened up Disk management and there is my physical drive with a little red '-' sign beside it. I right click and the only options i have where to import disk. Which i tried and got a LM2 error! (wtf!) It had a link to the Micro$oft website which i followed only to be told: "We do not have any information about this problem. Thank you for using Micro$oft help" ****!!! So yea, there is my life story, if anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated as there is 500gb of data that i kinda want back lol! |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 588039 | 2007-09-05 02:40:00 | Ran out of editing time - sorry about the double post :horrified anyway thought i should add this: When running under XP Pro, in disk management the disk appears as a Dynamic Disk (good) but offline (crap) So when i right click on the disk to reactivate it, i get the following error: INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies (C10000B6). Also get the following error: Disk group Dg0: Errors in some configuration copies: Disk Harddisk3, copy 1: Block 1: A format error was found in the configuration copy |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 588040 | 2007-09-05 03:26:00 | Ah, are you using these hdds in RAID?? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 588041 | 2007-09-05 03:31:00 | Ah, are you using these hdds in RAID?? No, it is one single hdd with two logical partitions. I ran diskpart and it listed my hard drives I selected the disk with the problems and told it to list the partitions and it only listed one! When running in XP, under disk management the disk doesn't show at all - just like in my 2nd post. However, when running under Vista, in disk managment it shows the 2 logical partitions and even shows the names that i named them and they have drive letters, but TrueCrypt still won't recongnize them! |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 588042 | 2007-09-05 03:46:00 | You could try this (faq.arstechnica.com) If you have Win 2K. It looks like dskprobe.exe is in this install (www.microsoft.com) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 588043 | 2007-09-05 04:17:00 | Thanks for that but unfortunatly it will not work as this is an encrypted partition and i also don't run W2k. Vista Ultimate and XP Pro. |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 588044 | 2007-09-05 04:22:00 | Have a read of the FAQ (www.truecrypt.org) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 588045 | 2007-09-05 04:28:00 | Yes I have but there is nothing about my problem. :groan: | Bozo (8540) | ||
| 588046 | 2007-09-05 06:15:00 | Ok, this is really random. I PM'd my friend who is a moderator for the technical support forums for DotA and he asked a few questions, suggested a few things (which i had tried and didn't work). Since he lives just round the road he asked if I could come round and pick him up and he would have a look and see what we could do. So, without turning off my computer I went and got him, he comes in, turns on the monitor, starts up TrueCrypt and everything is there, just like it should be!!!! Im pretty certain that he has some awesome powers and was able to fix the problem from his house - he just came round to humiliate me lol. Problem solved - but don't know how or why!!!! :D |
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