Installed W10 on a partition, which broke my Veracrypt setup


  1. Posts : 1
    W10
       #1

    Installed W10 on a partition, which broke my Veracrypt setup


    Hello.

    I decided to give Windows 10 a go today and Installed it on a new Partition of my 2nd SSD.
    I installed it via USB Stick and it went smoothly. I booted into W10 and it detected the other half of the 2nd SSD, but the main SSD, which is Veracrypted and runs W10 did not get recognised.

    The W10 Partition sees itself as C: and the 1st SSD (which actually is C:) gets seen as G: without any other information.

    Installed W10 on a partition, which broke my Veracrypt setup-explorer_jh7hc5k2sx.png

    Installed W10 on a partition, which broke my Veracrypt setup-mmc_35ygwkk4pr.png

    It got wierd when W10 booted even though i selected the old SSD, where W7 should be installed.

    I can now no longer access W7, only W10 by selecting the old SSD.

    I also got some 0xc00000f errors.

    I'm afraid my veracrypt bootloader got overwritten by W10 and my files are lost, is this true?

    Any help would be very appreciated, I have some very valuable images of my family on there
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  2. Posts : 18,432
    Windows 11 Pro
       #2

    LeNoob said:
    I'm afraid my veracrypt bootloader got overwritten by W10 and my files are lost, is this true?
    Your veracrypt bootloader was likely overwritten. Can't you just re-install veracrypt and access the encrypted partition by entering your password/keycode?
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  3. Posts : 8,111
    windows 10
       #3

    The drive is showing as raw which normally means the parition table has been lost and you need specifi parition recovery software to get it back. First thing is to get some other free pairition software and see if it agrees with that it could be the encryption is not understood by DM. But it is showing as all free. If another partition agrees try parition recovery see what it says it does nothing untill you commit so it safe to see if thats whats happened
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    3-Win-7Prox64 3-Win10Prox64 3-LinuxMint20.2
       #4

    Hi,
    10 will always see it's self as C.
    Pretty much why one should always remove all other disks/ ssd's and install 10 by it's self
    After connect other drives... F8 to boot to which ever os/ drive you want too.
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