THIS IS NOT A USER ERROR OR LOST KEY POST. I'm going to write this in long form since I want to convey the maximium amount of information. I own a laptop, Gateway NV570P09u that has a western digital hard drive, 750 Gib. It failed. In the event that your about to critisize me for not making backups, I did. I used a spare hard drive which I would plug into my desktop computer and copy the info onto, unfortunatly my desktops motherboard had failed and I was having trouble finding a replacement as the original model was out of stock at least on all the popular websites; as where the many simmilar models, leaving only quite inferior models (chipset and gpu wise), availible. I tried to trouble shoot online and everyone thought that it was the PCB board. I bought another one and, after failing to get it to work I sent the computer in for warrenty (the drive had failed before it was 6 months old). I got it back and I tried soldering the board like was suggested by those whom I bought it from. Though I have soldered before I have never soldered that small a device before and I failed at it. I then tried to replace it with the known good PCB board from the replacement drive but the damaged drive did not show up. I investigated sending it to a company specializing in data recovery but, when I mentioned that I was using LUKS encrypted LVM (installed using yast from opensuse 13.1,) they said that they could only recover files. Now, I know the pass phrase (I'm not certain if I made one of the letters capital or not but that's trivial,) so I don't see why the data should be unrecoverable. I'm looking for recomendations on what I can do. The data that was in the LUKS LVM was not very sensitive, I used encryption because I did not want to have to worry if I lost the computer. Most of it is recoverable, but very hard to find as I have been and still am persuing information on various advanced linux and computer related subjects and information gathering (not the out dated type), is a difficult thing when you are persuing the more arcane topics, saving and book marking as you go along. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
