{"id":46268,"date":"2021-01-19T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/encryption-has-crippled-my-laptop-i-think-im-going-to-have-a-stroke-encryption-methods-and-programs-bleepingcomputer.php"},"modified":"2021-01-19T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:52:11","slug":"encryption-has-crippled-my-laptop-i-think-im-going-to-have-a-stroke-encryption-methods-and-programs-bleepingcomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/encryption\/encryption-has-crippled-my-laptop-i-think-im-going-to-have-a-stroke-encryption-methods-and-programs-bleepingcomputer.php","title":{"rendered":"Encryption has crippled my laptop…I think I’m going to have a stroke! – Encryption Methods and Programs – BleepingComputer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I encrypted my c-drive and external hard drive yesterday...it took like forever to do the 2TB external, then it did the c-drive. Same password for both.Everything looked fine after. I think I used Disk Cryptor...i cant remember...i was hurrying and trying to do that and work...chaos.Anyway, now my laptop wont boot at all. I get the blue screen and that it needs to be repaired...the boot config is missing or contains errors.I cant get it to do anything with the windows cd either(no I dont have a rescue disk...I think its in storage somewhere...). It wont even let me use the Windows cd to even factory-reset it...its locked! I can use the command prompt to get in with the Windows cd, and I can see my c-drive and external hd are now raw format, which is prob why Windows cant do anything with them. I tried using the boot repair in the same DOS window, but nothing...I know I need to get in and remove the passwords, but how??? I think if I used another pc, I could get into my external hd and just unlock it by removing the password...but I dont know what to do about my laptop...even if I could remove the password, the entire drive where Windows lives is now RAW format...that cant be good... I see theres software that can revert RAW to NTSF and salvage your data, but I need to get in first...oh my head!I think Im literally going to have a stroke bc all of my work is locked in there! My finances...everything. Omg! Im so upset I cant even remember if anything is backed up to the external hdI know I used it just to back up my iOS device so I could skip iTunes...I dont know that I bothered to back up my laptop stuff there...Can anyone suggest anything to unravel this? Ive read on other encryption software sites that a lot of people are having issues with things turning to raw files, so i get this may be a common thing, but I havent seen any solutions except maybe EaseUS Recovery.I literally cant recreate all this data, and I cant be down for weeks waiting for a technician to fix, so any suggestions you can give would be super!<\/p>\n

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I encrypted my c-drive and external hard drive yesterday...it took like forever to do the 2TB external, then it did the c-drive. Same password for both.Everything looked fine after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}