> So: > 1. The laptop HDD (presumably 2.5" SATA) has suffered a hardware > failure. It had one or more partitions with LUKS containers, and one or > more had LVM. Yes > 2. You have a backup of the data on another HDD (presumably 3.5" SATA) > in your desktop computer. Yes, but 3 months old because I needed a motherboad, I've since gotten one. > 3. Your desktop motherboard has suffered a hardware failure. Yes > I'd suggest: > > 1. One or more of: > >a. Get another motherboard (CPU and/or RAM) for your desktop and >get your desktop working again. Check > b. Build another desktop/ workstation/ server and move the backup > HDD into it. Check > c. Get a USB external enclosure for your backup HDD. Why? I plug it into the internal plugs, it works fine. My question was, How do I get data off the broken drive if the data recovery people will not take it because it has encryption? Do you know of any that would? Even if they just copied off the raw sectors, I could use them to recover the data if I moved it to a new drive provided that the LVM info and the LUKS headers are intact right? Thanks again, David _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
