If you are in a similar situation, I recommend that you try the following steps.
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How to Repair TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Volumes
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However, I received “Invalid password” and “Invalid Volume” albeit the password entered was correct. I also tried to mount the volume using VeraCrypt in TrueCrypt mode. Do you want to format it?” and in macOS I tried to mount the disk manually using “diskutil mountDisk /dev/disk2” without success. In Windows I got the message “You need to format the disk in drive X: before you can use it.
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I connected the USB to my laptop and tried to mount the volume on Windows, Linux and Mac without success. Signs and Symptoms of Broken TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt VolumesĪfter using TrueCrypt for years to protect my Western Digital external hard drive, I recently noticed that I was no longer able to mount my volume and access my files, and started to panic a bit. This tutorial explain how to repair your corrupted TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt container (volume) using TestCrypt and get your data back. These tools can are used to encrypt data at rest on storage devices including external hard drives and USB flash drives. If you are sure that it's exactly 3 dicts combined (dict1.txt containing the aaa passwords, dict2.TrueCrypt and its follower, VeraCrypt, are wonderful encryption tools that are freely available. If your list of password candidates is quite small, you could precompute them and use a "simple" dictionary attack (-a 0 without rules), but as soon as the dictionary would be several MB/GB I would suggest using -a 1 / -a 6 / -a 7 or -a 0 together with rules (-r). Regarding your second question about how to use different attacks with hashcat, hashcat has a -a (or long -attack-mode) option (read the output of hashcat -help and/or faq/wiki) with whch you can try different attacks. What operating system do you use ? windows ? if you really have problems with the dd.exe tool, you could always try to use a linux live cd/iso/image and use the dd with sudo etc. If you mean that your operating system doesn't allow reading with unpriviledged user accounts, then you probably need to be an administrator etc. I'm not sure what you mean by "the command doesnt seem to allow dd to read from the hidden partition".ĭd is able to read any bytes that are available on disks. probably not because his answers are always on point I will leave my reply here anyways, maybe it adds just a little bit more info here and there to be worth keeping it. he of course gives very good advice so read his suggestions too. : undeath was once again faster to answer the questions.
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Once the hash is extracted, is there any way to tell hashcat to try different combination from the 'password fragments' that I remember to crack the password? This command ( dd if=hashcat_ripemd160_AES_hidden.raw of=hashcat_ripemd160_AES_hidden.tc bs=1 skip=65536 count=512) posted there seems to allow me to 'extract' hashes from the hidden volume but the command doesnt seem to allow dd to read from the hidden partition. This ( ) seems to indicate that I will have to first 'extract' hashes from the hidden volume (pls correct me if I am wrong). So I am trying to use hashcat to crack the password. I remember the password including the phrases aaa,bbb,ccc but forgot whether it is aaabbbccc or aaacccbbb or sth else like that). But I am posting this since I have got an encrypted, hidden veracrypt partition on an external hard drive created a while ago and I forgot the password, however I do remember phrases included in the password, but I forgot the combination of them (e.g. I am totally new to using hashcat and even to the 'password cracking' world and I have zero knowledge on using this kind of software.
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