Timeline for How to clone entire VeraCrypt encrypted system drive and mount it later on Windows 10 to copy selected files?
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| Dec 29, 2017 at 13:24 | vote | accept | stil | ||
| Dec 29, 2017 at 1:25 | answer | added | stil | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 17:27 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | If you use Windows tools to image the whole drive, e.g. Macrium Reflect, you can mount the image under Windows as another drive. Imaging can be done from a USB rescue disk or from a mounted Windows partition using Volume Shadow Copy. Mount the image as writable in order to access files with VeraCrypt (this does not actually write to the image on disk, only to the copy in memory). | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 0:24 | comment | added | stil | The point is I don't have will or time to cherry pick files because: 1) copying tons of small files takes long time 2) I don't want to store them unencrypted on external storage because I will need to wipe it afterwards 3) I want to pick files I need after I have fresh system installed because I will know better what else I'm missing yet. Yes, I'm perfectly aware I need to test copy before I overwrite source. Thanks for input | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 0:17 | comment | added | Frank Thomas | There are lots of things that can go wrong. if you already have another volume that will hold the data, consider instead copying the unencrypted contents (and perhaps cherry-picking the specific files you want). its likely to save you time. whatever you do, be sure to test the contents of the copy BEFORE you overwrite the source disk. | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 0:04 | history | asked | stil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |