I am trying to obtain data from my previous laptop which is broken. Part of the data was not backed up at the time the laptop broke down.
The hard drive is still functioning properly and I can access it via a USB connector on another laptop.
The drive is encrypted using truecrypt and contains an encrypted system partition (C:) and another encrypted partition (D:) which auto mounted on startup. The relevant data is on the D:\ partition. Windows 7 was installed on the broken laptop.
I have tried the following:
Install truecrypt on new laptop and access the drive from there. I can only see the system partition and after mounting I can access the data there. I cannot see the D:\ partition though.
Tried to boot from the hard drive using the new laptop. I have changed the boot settings such that legacy support is enabled and I have put the boot option USB diskette on key at the top of the list. Unfortunately the laptop keeps booting the original Windows 8.
I have not been able to find a good approach on the internet using google: does anyone know how to proceed in this case?
Thank you for your answer, if you need additional information please let me know.
mount -o ro ...
) and I'm not even sure if/how Windows can do that. But the encryption is an added challenge, it makes backup copies a LOT more important... something could have overwritten the data on your drive, so it may not be recoverable at all