Ok I am little new to LinuxMint. I made a USB drive bootable drive. In Mint I was looking to encrypt and install Mint on a bigger USB drive. Unfortunately did not pay attention and accidently encrypted my windows hard drive on the laptop. Now windows will not boot. I had some media files and other things on there I would like to get off, but I can't get it to mount in Mint even with the right password. It just disappears. I assume this is because I have Mint on a 8 GB flash drive and need to have an equal 1 TB Mint drive in order for all the files on the Windows System drive to mount correct?
Will this fix it to get my files off, or am I just screwed and should just reformat and reinstall windows 10 and just say oh well to the files?
accidently encrypted LUKS to windows system drive
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slickdaddy96
accidently encrypted LUKS to windows system drive
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LinuxJim
Re: accidently encrypted LUKS to windows system drive
Not correct. The size of the Mint system doesn't matter. You can mount any size hard drive.slickdaddy96 wrote:I assume this is because I have Mint on a 8 GB flash drive and need to have an equal 1 TB Mint drive in order for all the files on the Windows System drive to mount correct?
What program did you use to encrypt the drive?
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slickdaddy96
Re: accidently encrypted LUKS to windows system drive
I encrypted in Mint with ubiquity install command to make a new install. Just didn't choose the right disc when doing it.
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slickdaddy96
Re: accidently encrypted LUKS to windows system drive
To add more info to this. I've listed the partitions to the physical volume and the biggest one doesn't have a file system type associated.with it. When I search for logical drives I see the big one listed after unlocking the drive in terminal. Again that logical drive does not have file system type listed for it. So when I try to mount the logical volume it asks me to specify a file system type. I have tried all types possible and they all give me error messages and the volume won't mount. I would assume a Windows system volume would be ntfs, but mounting as type ntfs-3g gives me an error just like any other type.
Am I just screwed? All I need to do is mount it to get files off and I plan to reformat the whole volume anyway to get rid of the encryption.
Am I just screwed? All I need to do is mount it to get files off and I plan to reformat the whole volume anyway to get rid of the encryption.