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Answer» Alright hello everyone. This is my current situation : I've got : Windows XP Home SP1 installed on my laptop (fresh,clean install) 140 GB HD (Laptop) 300 GB HD (external) - 2 encrpyted (with TrueCrpyt) partitions --> total 270 GB The Laptop HD had 3 partitions on it: Partition 1 : Recovery - FAT32 - 7 GB Partition 2 : VISTAOS - NTFS - 80 GB (Windows Vista) Partition 2 : DATA - NTFS - ~50 GB
Now I reparitioned it in the process of installing Windows XP (CUZ Windows Vista is a b1tch) and now : (Laptop HD) Partition 1 : Unnamed - NTFS - 10 GB (Windows XP) Partition 2 : Unnamed - none - 10 GB Partition 3 : Unnamed - none - 90 GB still 30 GB left to partition incase I wanna install another OS.
So as I said before my external Hd has 2 encrypted partitions (both encrypted with TrueCrypt). The password to open the encrypted partitions in "PW.rar" was on the VISTAOS partition in the "Users/****/" directory. Stupid as I am I cut and pasted all the data on "DATA" and most of the data on "VISTAOS" (including the password file) into the encrypted partition. I used BartPE to do this, cuz Windows Vista refused to boot. Now the password file is gone and the external HD is beautifully encrypted, but I don't have any access to it. The worst thing is all the documents for my studies are backed up on that encrypted HD ! Good thing is I know part of the password and now this is where u guys jump in.
The password is about 18 characters long. Starts with "€|\/|³" and ends with "$]-[" (quotation MARKS omitted). The word is supposed to be "emerald-cash". Question 1 (and possible SOLUTION): Is there any program, that can generate a list of passwords, that I can try out of that it can try out on TrueCrypt ?
Question 2 (maybe another solution): Is there even a slight chance to recover the "PW.rar" file ? Even a tiny bit wouuld be enough cuz it's only about 16 KB I think maybe even less. Try Here...Alright I solved it
Here's how: Using Bart PE and GetDataBack for NTFS, I created a Windows Live CD (call is as u like that's what I call it) with the GDBfN plugin. After booting the P.C with the Live CD, GDBfN scanned the laptop-HD and recovered the password-archive.
This was possible, cuz I "only" rewrote the partition table and Quick-formatted the Windows XP partition. The Windows didn't take up that much space, so it didn't overwrite the needed data --> recovery ! (^_^) @patio thanx 4 the page, but the METHODS described there need a password.
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