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 > - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
