Since the encrypted disk is NOT mounted, the backup must be a 'Forensic' (sector by sector) backup. Use the Rescue Environment to clone an encrypted disk. (The Disk ID can be foundat the end of the 000.mrimgfile and the end of any of the 'initial files' of an incremental backup). The solution was to use the Windows command line tool DISKPART (or any number of tools) and restore the Disk ID to that of the original disk. This failed with the error "At least one partition in the Image to append to cannot be found". This was necessary to be able to mount the drive on windows.īoot from the restored HD created in test 1 and try appending to the existing Reflect image. One important caveat - Reflect changed the Disk ID of the target HDD at the end of the restore. I did not try using the MR internal tool. There are other tools, several free ones, which also work.
I used NeoSmart's Easy Recovery Essentials ( ) to repair the boot sector. As expected the restore was unencrypted, but was not bootable. The discussion below includes some tests I preformed before I got to cloning the VeraCrypt HDD while retraining the encryption.įrom within Windows7 use Reflect to restore and Image of a VeraCrypt encrypted HD. The Rescue Environment allows me to mount the VeraCrypt volumes and gave me complete access to the volumes. Following the published instructions and adapting them to VeraCrypt (honestly trivial) I was able to create a MR and VeraCryupt Rescue Environment.
#HOW TO USE VERACRYPT TO ENCRYPT USB HD HOW TO#
The document explains how to include TrueCrypt on the MR Rescue Environment.
I have completed some experiments using Macrium Reflect (MR) and VeraCrypt. Please note, I was able to continue incrementing an existing MR on the cloned HDD after this procedure as well.
0 kommentar(er)
