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wd 1tb first sector bad not showing encrypted partition

January 27th, 2012, 11:53

hi dear i have 1 tb wd cavier black which suddenly stop showing partion I scan it with find and mount in the start it make a noise and then show 6 partion in it but not the last one which one is trucrpt encrypted partition wihch status is hidden and unformated in disk mangement.

1 plz tell my why my hard is doing this this is the 2nd time lost my partion last time its maxtor 750gb.I gat data backup and send it to warrenty.

2 who i can gat my last partion back.I have the header of partition.

3 Do i need to send this hard for warrenty its a 1 year old hard drive because i dont have money to bakup data on a new drive.
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Re: wd 1tb first sector bad not showing encrypted partition

January 27th, 2012, 14:26

If you send this in for warrenty = new drive or refurbished drive and no data

If you have no money to back up data on new drive = store drive in safe place and put some money away to buy a new drive with to recovery you data on this one.

If you have a partition problem and the encrypted key is lost and you can not see your last partition on this one then that means no free DIY solutions on this one. You will more than likely have to have it looked at by professional to get this done for you.

So if there is issues with money and no money to buy a new HDD you can give it to warrently but then you have no data. You can store it away in safe place and get new HDD and back up what you can on this one for now. Last you want the key back for encryption you will need to see a DR company and how much it costs to do this one for you then that also means to store drive in safe place and wait for money to do this one with.

Re: wd 1tb first sector bad not showing encrypted partition

January 28th, 2012, 3:28

thanks for reply does this hard drive continues generate bad sector or not.Please mention causes of this last time i also lost my entire part ion structure's and this time too

there is any way i can decrepit that part ion and recover it with any diy software.
And last time i get a refurbed hard which start form problem at the end i sell it after one month in now a days hard drive are short in entire market.And refurbed hard drive are sell all around do i will get new hard drive.Who to verify its a new hard by its serial no. Please share your expereince of wd wareenty claims

Re: wd 1tb first sector bad not showing encrypted partition

January 28th, 2012, 3:43

dear i ask to local professional they know nothing about encrptyed and truecrpt.I find a article about recovering truecprt partition with testdisk
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Recover_a_TrueCrypt_Volume
if i make a logical partition on the free space and then restore header to it does truecrpt mount it as encrypted and show my data.
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