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Veracrypt somehow really messed up the bootloader on my PC
So basically I wanted to install windows on a secondary physical drive in my PC so I could have a second bare metal OS for testing stuff. I have 1 M.2 SSD that has my main windows installation ...
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Does encrypting full drive with BitLocker secure-wipe the drive?
Say I have a storage device that I want to use with my Windows 10 machine. I have some sensitive data on the drive and I would like to wipe the drive before using it. Normally I just use dd to fill ...
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Able to unlock BitLocker drive, but unable to obtain the 48-digit recovery key
I'm trying to obtain the 48-digit BitLocker recovery key from a failed drive. Here's what happened:
Windows 10 Professional was installed on a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB drive. The login was a local user ...
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Bitlocker suddenly activated on my machine, prompting for recovery key that I don't have
I've run into a very strange problem with my Lenovo laptop (Windows 10 Home) and although people say it's not possible, it still happened.
I have been using my laptop for over two years and have not ...
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How can I recover data from a bitlocker encrypted volume (with the decryption key)?
I have a backup drive that is used mostly for that purpose: to backup data from my computer. I did move data onto it temporarily at some point, but I believe and I hope I've moved it back off in the ...
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BitLocker I know my Password but not the recovery key
Yesterday I turned of my long life running Windows machine that uses Bitlocker for years. In the shutdown sequence, Windows installed updates.
Today I started my machine, and as usual, I enter the ...
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How to fix possible corrupted files from decrypted drive?
I recently gave in my external HDD to Seagate for data recovery and they sent me back a drive with the contents encrypted (Bitlocker). I decrypted the contents but it seems like all the files are ...
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Is there any way to get the BitLocker password from the laptop?
I have a personal hard disk of 1TB with lot of data.
I connected it to my office laptop and the drive got bitlocked automatically within a second.
I talk to the office administrators and we ran the ...
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How can I recover files from Bitlocker encytped HyperV virtual disk?
I have a virtual disk that I created with HyperV. I encrypted this disk with Bitlocker and put my files in it. I deleted all these files by doing Shift+Delete with a momentary anger and turned off the ...
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Data recovery from my SSD encrypted with Veracrypt is not working having the password
I have one SSD and one HDD. My SSD is encrypted with Veracrypt. Yesterday my SSD just stop to work and I can not do much from my SSD so I have installed Veracrypt on my HDD in order to get back all my ...
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Does encrypting a partition prevent data recovery?
When a partition on a drive is not encrypted, and a file is accidentally deleted, it is relatively easy to restore the data. This is because, for most file systems, a delete operation simply marks ...
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My USB files look like they are encrypted they can't be read or opened
Hello people i have one problem that deleted a lot of my files i ran my USB as always but this time I noticed a problem main folder was normal also one of them inside which the other files are in ...
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How does Samsung’s secure erase tool actually work?
I’ve seen so much debate surrounding what specifically Samsung magician’s secure erase tool for their consumer ssds actually does. It seems like everyone agrees that using the bootable USB media wipes ...
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Data Recovery From An Encrypted External Drive I Formatted? [duplicate]
I have a drive which is showing signs of bad sectors. Errors are "Current Pending Sector Count" and "Uncorrectable Sector Count". Crystal Disk Info did that buzz sound which I ...
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SSD Sanitization Order
My question is regarding SSD sanitization.
As far as I understand, the generally accepted procedure for making SSD data unrecoverable is this:
Full disk encryption
Standard Format
Second full disk ...
