To actually mount and copy the data from the encrypted home partition I followed this post by rausch.

I did not want to alter the original drive to avoid total damage. Finally, I wrote the partition table via TestDisk to the clone hard drive. Then I was able to detect the Linux partitions on the cloned hard drive. I cloned the drive using dd and had to change the geometry settings of the target drive. or the partition table can not be written because partitions overlaps. some partitions are not found by TestDisk You can use the Geometry menu to change this value. Warning: the current number of heads per cylinder is 16 I already managed to recover data stored there.ĭo you know any tool for Linux or Windows which is capable of recovering the partitions? I assume that I lost the partition table or just Grub.Īfter running the Quick Search the following shows up: Disk /dev/sdb - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 969021 16 63 The NTFS partition is not of interest for this question. There was a home partition of Ubuntu was encrypted.I do not have information about specific partitioning.The unallocated part of the disc used to contain two operating systems: The following screenshot shows the current state of my hard disc.

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