Mount & Decrypting Partitions

[anonymouscoward]

I recently used diskcryptor(similar to truecrypt) to encrypt my Windows 7 partitions. But I didn't encrypt a system reserved partition and it totally f'd up the windows install. I'd still like to get my data off the Windows installation but I'm having a lot of trouble. I encrypted it with AES-256 and I remember the password.

I'm running linux mint off a usb drive right now. Gparted shows the two encrypted partitions, but they're black, as in unknown file system type, and I can't mount them.

I've tried:

mounting them normally via cli, but I don't know what to type for the filesystem when mounting.

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3 encrypted
(where sdb3 is one of the partitions), but I get /dev/sdb3 is not a valid LUKS device(which makes sense I guess since I didn't use LUKS to encrypt them.

I guess my question is how can I use any program supporting AES to decrypt the files? It seems weird that LUKS, which can use the same type of encryption, can't decrypt it.

[JasonLG]

I recently used diskcryptor(similar to truecrypt) to encrypt my Windows 7 partitions. But I didn't encrypt a system reserved partition and it totally f'd up the windows install. I'd still like to get my data off the Windows installation but I'm having a lot of trouble. I encrypted it with AES-256 and I remember the password.

I'm running linux mint off a usb drive right now. Gparted shows the two encrypted partitions, but they're black, as in unknown file system type, and I can't mount them.

I've tried:

mounting them normally via cli, but I don't know what to type for the filesystem when mounting.

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3 encrypted
(where sdb3 is one of the partitions), but I get /dev/sdb3 is not a valid LUKS device(which makes sense I guess since I didn't use LUKS to encrypt them.

I guess my question is how can I use any program supporting AES to decrypt the files? It seems weird that LUKS, which can use the same type of encryption, can't decrypt it.

You'd probably get better answers from a diskcryptor forum.

[anonymouscoward]

Finally got a reply there. Guess I have to mount the disk in windows and use diskcryptor on it. Going to try doing that in Wine now.

It just seems strange that I have to use a specific program to encrypt/decrypt with standard encryption algorithms.