Re: Hard drive overheated, now can't get into loop-AES partitions...

[Mike M <mm276995@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bah..  Apologies.  I'm not sure whether my drive uses loop-AES or
crytpoloop, its whatever Mandrake was using in its installer circa
9.1/9.2.  That said, based on the below, is there anything I can do or
is there a better place to ask this question?

Thanks,
Mike


On 4/16/05, Mike M <mm276995@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Have a hard drive failure/recovery problem.
> 
> I've been happily using loop-AES (AES-128)  with Mandrake 9.2 (now
> 10.1) since mid-2003.  Tonight my 3yr old hard drive either got too
> hot or seems to be slowly dying.
> 
> Its crashed out several times and I've been dd'ing all my data off my
> old drive onto a new drive with
> 
> $ dd  bs=512 if=/dev/hdb11 of=hdb11.dmg
> 
> However, after these crashes, both the drive itself and the image
> refuse to mount the encrypted partition with
> 
> $ mount -o ext2 /dev/hdb11 /mnt/hdb11 -o encrypted,encryption=AES128,loop
> 
> It asks for my passphrase as usual however after I enter it gives:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loopX,
>            or too many mounted file systems
>            (could this be the IDE device.....
> 
> Has anyone seen this before and is there any method I can use to get
> my data?  I'm reasonably sure the data is still there (most of
> the data on unencrypted partitions is dd'ing over to the new hd just
> fine), all my options are the same as usual, it just seems that the
> partition header (or where ever the hash is stored) may have been
> corrupted.
> 
> This is essentially my home directory so any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike Manning
>

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