Is this a LUKS setup or a dm-crypt one? I suspect LUKS. If it is LUKS, you lost all your encrypted data forever. The problem is that NTFS AFAIK has a volume boot sector that will wipe the LUKS salts. It also has other stuff that have a good chance of wiping the used key-slots. Basically canging a few (very few) bits in the 128kB a keyslot uses represents a secure wipe of the key in that slot. In order to prevent that from happening again, please refer to the cryptsetup FAQ, especially the section on backup and data recovery. For the other things, this is not the right place to ask, butt googeling on how to recover a NTFS quickformatted ext2/ext3 partition should bring up some clues. You can also try the e2fsck man-page. Basically you should first make a sector image of the partition as backup and then run e2fsck with an alternative superblock number. It usually does a reasonable job. Arno On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:31:23PM +0430, medya wrote: > hi , I beg you to guide me : > > I had a 320 GB hard disk , including a Crypt-setup encrypted partition , and > several ext3 and ext4 partitions of ubuntu. > > in the process of installing windows xp , I accidentally quick-formated the > hard disk and now each partition is indiviudally quickformated to NTFS > > right after the quick format I stopped the windows setup and stopped using > the drive so I dont damage it anymore. > > please guide me and tell me what can I do about it, to get my data back , > specially from the encrypted partition using crypt-setup ? > > > thanks in advance for helping me > medya > http://blog.shevin.info > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- 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
