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I had a computer system with an SSD and a spinning hard disk drive. The OS was installed to the SSD unencrypted and my personal files were installed on the HDD. The HDD was encrypted using VeraCrypt as a device-hosted (non-system) volume, as opposed to a file-hosted volume.
Since then the the SSD has failed and I can longer boot the system. While I can live with the loss of the SSD, the HDD has important data which I really need to recover. I've connected it to another system via SATA. Windows can see the drive and I can assign it a drive letter. However, when I try to decrypt with VeraCrypt, I get the following message:
Operation failed due to one or more of the following:
- Incorrect password.
- Incorrect Volume PIM number.
- Incorrect PRF (hash).
- Not a valid volume.
Source: MountVolume:7763
I'm pretty sure the password is correct. I tried using the backup volume header via mount options, plus restoring the volume header via Tools -> Restore Volume Header, but neither option works. I don't have a rescue disk.
Any suggestions as what else I can try to do to recover the data?
Dan Stevens
Posted 2017-04-21T18:01:07.487
Reputation: 220
Have you tried using the Veracrypt rescue disc? --> https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=VeraCrypt%20Rescue%20Disk
– Don King – 2017-04-21T18:04:18.720I don't have a rescue disk but I tried the 'Use backup header embedded in volume if available' option in the Mount Options, but this isn't working. – Dan Stevens – 2017-04-21T18:42:10.687
Without a rescue disk it is going to be extremly difficulty if not impossible to get your data decrypted. – Ramhound – 2017-04-21T19:57:42.277