Well I've done something stupid. I was playing with truecrypt and everything was going fine until my backup software ran (Dantz retrospect (came with my maxtor one touch)). Everything began operating real slow after the backup completed and then I could here the hard drive spooling up and down. First instinct I rebooted. Now right after the windows xp screen I get a stop error Unmountable boot volume. It's a dell inspiron 5150 running windows xp home edition.
From what I've read elsewhere the files may still be accessible using a Linux boot disk and the error is caused by a flag that once cleared allows everything to run normally again.
The encrypted part is only a 256 mb container not the whole partition.
My goal is to recover my pictures and documents. The stuff I was encrypting is of no consequence it was just test fodder.
Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated even if to say I'm a complete *****.
Normally I'd say well i screwed up but the photos are mostly family ones my grandmother took with the digital camera i got her for Christmas. I really don't want to lose any of those on her.
Thanks for your thoughts
Jesse
From what I've read elsewhere the files may still be accessible using a Linux boot disk and the error is caused by a flag that once cleared allows everything to run normally again.
The encrypted part is only a 256 mb container not the whole partition.
My goal is to recover my pictures and documents. The stuff I was encrypting is of no consequence it was just test fodder.
Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated even if to say I'm a complete *****.
Normally I'd say well i screwed up but the photos are mostly family ones my grandmother took with the digital camera i got her for Christmas. I really don't want to lose any of those on her.
Thanks for your thoughts
Jesse