testdisk does not work on a truecrypt ntfs drive

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testdisk does not work on a truecrypt ntfs drive

#1 Post by enda »

testdisk does not work on a mounted Truecrypt ntfs drive

http://www.truecrypt.org/

(photorec does work though.)

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Re: testdisk does not work on a truecrypt ntfs drive

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Can you describe a little more your problem and what you mean by TestDisk not working on truecrypt volume ?

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Re: testdisk does not work on a truecrypt ntfs drive

#3 Post by enda »

On a NTFS formatted drive, I can use testdisk to recover files.

However, if I mount a NTFS formatted volume which is located inside a TrueCrypt encrypted volume, testdisk does not work, however photorec does work though.


A TrueCrypt Volume can either be in a TrueCrypt file or an encrypted partition/device.

If you want to create a TrueCrypt file or encrypt a partition/device with TrueCrypt, instructions are here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TrueCrypt

(Instead of a FAT filesystem, select NTFS.)

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