I have a 4 terabyte Seagate external hard drive. I am on Windows 8. I had the hard drive encrypted with TrueCrypt and still have the correct password. A few weeks ago, the power supply on the enclosure went bad, so I had to get a new enclosure/power supply. When I reconnected the hard drive, TrueCrypt will no longer decrypt it.
In My Computer it says (as it always would), that the hard drive needs to be formatted. It did this before as well, as it does with all TrueCrypt encrypted hard drives. However, it appears that the partitions on the drive somehow got changed. In Disk Management it is showing only 465 MB as "Healthy (Primary Partition)" and then it shows 2 additional partitions as "Unallocated". One of the unallocated partitions is 1582 MB and the other is 1678 MB. Disk Management shows the Healthy partition on the far left, and then the other 2 unallocated partitions follow it on the right.
How can I "combine" these 3 partitions to get the original, single partition back? I don't want to lose or change any data, since I still want to be able to decrypt it once the sections are combined again. I know it is *not* a problem with the password. I would appreciate any help as I'm at a loss as to what to do!
In My Computer it says (as it always would), that the hard drive needs to be formatted. It did this before as well, as it does with all TrueCrypt encrypted hard drives. However, it appears that the partitions on the drive somehow got changed. In Disk Management it is showing only 465 MB as "Healthy (Primary Partition)" and then it shows 2 additional partitions as "Unallocated". One of the unallocated partitions is 1582 MB and the other is 1678 MB. Disk Management shows the Healthy partition on the far left, and then the other 2 unallocated partitions follow it on the right.
How can I "combine" these 3 partitions to get the original, single partition back? I don't want to lose or change any data, since I still want to be able to decrypt it once the sections are combined again. I know it is *not* a problem with the password. I would appreciate any help as I'm at a loss as to what to do!
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