TrueCrypt

I tried to register and post on their forum but because of an abundance of "spam" and the fact that my e:mail addresses are all pretty generic (Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc) they wouldn't let me register. I scanned the topics of the forum they would let me access but didn't see any relevant posts.

Web-based email is ALL excluded?? That's all I use too. (I have no plan B! Sorry! :( )

If it would help, I can setup a temporary email address (alias/redirect) for you on my SpywareDrGuide.com domain name. It can be setup to automatically redirect any email it receives to whatever email address you like. For example: All email sent to say "[email protected]" would immediately be redirected to say "[email protected]". You would then use the "[email protected]" email address for full access to the forums.truecrypt.org site.

Nice gesture Doc!! :D

Yes it is!

Thanks guys. It's no biggie though. (Maybe a minute or two to set it up).

Hopefully someome on TrueCrypt's support forums will have an idea or two he can try.

That would be great Dr. Have the e:mail redirected to ronjohn1898 at yahoo.com

Also, in regard to the previous contention that I should try to remove the drive from the case and hook it up directly to the PC...(a)Is that possible and (b)Isn't the information on the drive encrypted? Removing it and hooking it up in a different manner wouldn't change that, would it?

email address edit to prevent spamming (fink)

Yes, encrypted is encrypted. I think the idea to try another PC was to just make sure the data transfer links werent' compromised.

RonJohn, your temporary (120-day) email redirect is setup. Check your PM's for the email address.

Best of luck in finding a solution! Keep us posted?

Thanks, Dr. I will keep you apprised of how this turns out, although I must admit, at this point, I am pretty pessimistic. Having read the link that Welshjim provided, it appears that my problem isn't an isolated incident.

I agree, it doesn't look very promising. Hopefully though, someone in the TrueCrypt forums will have an idea or two that will ultimately solve the problem.

This thread is a couple of weeks old, I just found it googling for that error message from TrueCrypt. Did you find a solution?

I have exactly the same problem as you, RonJohn... :-( I also am *very* sure I have gotten the PW right, being used the same for many years. And I did have to repeat it when creating the volume. And when I do that I also display it in ascii, just to be sure I get it right...

I have to admit that I more and more suspect TrueCrypt itself is to blame. It would not be the first software bug in history, after all...

One common thing in our cases is that we encrypted a whole drive If I understand you correctly. I have not been able to reproduce this yet, though.

Currently my suspicion is that it may have to do with the creation of the TC system on /dev/sdx rather than on some partition /dev/sdxn for a number n. (I'm doing this in Linux.)

Well... life goes on, but it does sting to suddenly have lost so much data in this way... :-(

J.

Just a follow-up to my own post...

Tried to mount the disk on another Windows-machine, and it (i.e., TrueCrypt) finds an encrypted fs on the disk, using my password! Funny thing is that it reports it as hardisk-some-number-partition-number-two, while I would have expecetd just "harddisk, unpartitioned". Another thing is that it reports the size to be 100 GB, I expected it to be 2 TB.

But this, and the fact that I cannot mount it (outside the TrueCrypt-tool) and check for actual content, since I chose ext3 as filesystem when I created it on Linux... :-(

really strange, this...

J.

Please disregard the previous post. That found partition was something totally different. (Something old used for testing.)

J.

thanks for the followups.