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good to hear about your recovery success!


Sadly I wouldn't call it success - at least not the result I was hoping for. While Photorec recovered many files (proving that the drive is decrypting), it's not recovered everything. Ideally I'd like to recover the MBR and MFT so that I'm able to ...

Thanks all for the suggestions so far.


Testdisk found a couple of partitions. None of them contains the necessary data to rebuild the boot sector.

This is probably caused by the fact that you ignored the hint of cgrenier regarding decryption.


I definately selected the decompressed volume. I ...

When dealing with VeraCrypt, you need to choose the unlocked drive letter (ie D:), not a PhysicalDrive.
Go in the Advanced menu (not Analyze), force the type to FAT32 or NTFS, Boot, RebuildBS...


Thanks for the hint. I've tried following the 'Rebuild BS' option but these appears to have failed ...

I had a system running with two disk drives, a solid state primary drive containing Windows 10 and a 1TB spinning disk secondary drive for data storage. The secondary drive was encrypted using Veracrypt as a device-hosted non-system volume. The primary partition was encrypted using a different ...