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10.7: Using FileVault2 to encrypt a second hard drive with user folders
Authored by: fourCC on Nov 08, '11 10:33:07AM

I got back all my stuff.

Just to let everybody know in case that this happens to other people.

I think that the reason that this encryption failed was because I interrupted the encryption process in the middle.
I thought that this was going to be like in the Filevault 2 encryption in Settings, that if you reboot the machine, as soon as you are logged in again, it simply continues.

For any reason, the encryption failed and it didn't continue and was stacked in the middle of the encryption process. This was the reason of my problem of not being able to decrypt my hard-drive after login, and also what made possible that I've been able to get all my stuff back.

For the operating system this was an encrypted hard-drive. The password didn't work because the encryption process didn't finnish so for some reason, to put the right decryption password didn't work.

Then I used Data rescue 3, as the hard-drive was not completely encrypted, for this application was still possible to reach all the not yet encrypted data. After scanning the hard-drive for several hours, Data Rescue 3 found all the stuff there with the right folder hierarchy and from there I was able to get back all my stuff.

Just in case this could help anybody in a similar situation.



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