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Rescuing an encrypted hard drive
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Mar 15, 2026752 viewsConfidence Score0%
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A friend of mine asked me to encrypt the hard drive on his netbook (running Windows Vista) so I used TrueCrypt's full-system encryption to do it. All is well. Except now he forgot his Windows login password (still knows the hard drive unlocking one, though, so the netbook boots) and does not have t…
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As you know the TrueCrypt password what I would do is install TrueCrypt on another machine, take the hard drive out of the netbook and install it in the other machine alongside it's existing hard drive I believe you should then be able to mount the …
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