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by johnjohndoe
11 May 2014, 10:25
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: How to recover an encrypted HOME partition?
Replies: 1
Views: 2069

Re: How to recover an encrypted HOME partition?

Finally, I was able to reproduce the output of TestDisk on the second drive. I simply changed the geometry settings to the ones of the original drive. I did the following:

Lookup the geometry settings of the original drive:

$ sudo sfdisk -g /dev/sda
/dev/sda: 969021 cyclinders, 16 heads, 63 ...
by johnjohndoe
08 May 2014, 09:23
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: How to recover an encrypted HOME partition?
Replies: 1
Views: 2069

How to recover an encrypted HOME partition?

Hello.

I am trying to recover the encrypted HOME partition of a Ubuntu installation. I did write down the passphrase. The harddisc originally contained a Windows partition, followed by the Ubuntu system partiton, followed by the HOME partition ... I cannot remember the exact layout, though. There ...