On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:53:29PM +0200, orinoco wrote: > Hi fred, > > On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:46:03 +0100 > fred smith <dopey483@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am desperate to try to recover this disk - it has important stuff on > > it. Any suggestions or pointers? > > I know the passphrase, but is there any way of recover the first part > > of the partition? I have attached the drive via an external interface > > and 'gparted' shows: > > /dev/sdb1 fat32 200MiB first sector 40 last sector > > 409689 /dev/sdb2 hfs+ 931.19GiB first sector 409640 > > Anything I can do or try? > > I have a LUKS encrypted hard disk with destroy 1st part > (accidently overwritten with encrypted cache) > myself. > From what I learned on this list about LUKS there is no way to recover > it because there is no backup of it at the end or anywhere else in the > partition. That is correct. Overwrite the start of a LUKS partition/disk and your data is toast, unless you did a manual backup of the LUKS header. > The key passphrase is AFAIK no help because it is only used > to encrypt the real key used for encryption of the partition itself. > So the only way to recover it would be to "guess" this key, but this is > as safe as strong encrpytion can be. > > So, at this point I would consider your data as lost, > but hope dies last. You could keep the disk and maybe future generations > can recover the data. I rather doubt that, at least for the next 30 or so years. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
