![]() So I actually have three drives to work with. I still have that other drive, however I did perform some header restores. I had this same issue with another one of the encrypted drives months ago, but because my data was safe on other drives, I was not in a rush to investigate the cause. This problem happened while both encrypted drives were mounted while connected to a two bay hotswap external usb 3.0 open faced enclosure. As far as I can tell, my situation is somewhat favorable because I have two nearly identical drives that have the same issue, so I can experiment with one, while the other remains in the same state locked away. Every time I connected one of the encrypted drives, windows asks if I wish to format it but of course I never do. I never messed with keyfiles and have never been asked for them. I never used the hidden features that have two passwords and two headers to deal with. I never encrypted a drive in it's place, meaning that I always encrypted the entire drives before adding files. ![]() Hoping that the strange behavior would go away after I dismounted and remounted, I ended up with both of the drives mounting as normal with the password, but an explorer window says "the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable".Īll of my Converted family VHS, photos, videos, gone. Some of the folders would not disappear after I selected to permanently delete them. Then I began manually deleting the recycle bin. rar file to my desktop and extracted it with no issue and the extracted contents opened like normal. jpg image would not open with a warning that the file header could not be read. rar's parent directory when things began acting strange. rar file from within one of the encrypted drives to the. I rearranged some folders, deleted some files and ended up extracting an. ![]() Then I would copy the contents to new drives without encryption. The goal was to manually sync the contents as I do every couple of months. But that is why I have backups! Today I was in the process of organizing the contents of the two encrypted drives. The drive without encryption was stolen after my father passed away. I thought it was smart to have two of the drives encrypted with TrueCrypt, and one without encryption. ![]() My entire life has been kept on three different 2TB drives for the past decade. ![]()
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