TrueCrypt Bug, or Hardware Failure
Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 10:49 For the last couple of years I've been using an offsite backup method. And today the drive I use for that failed on me. My backup program reported that it could write (or read) data to the drive.
Investigation showed that several directories in the TrueCrypt volume were gone!!!!! Thankfully, the data on my Drobo and server were still pristine condition.
Disk Utility and several other tools reported problems with the drive (or at least the TrueCrypt part/volume). So I erased the drive, and re-initialized it. No reports of trouble while I did that. After that I recreated the TrueCrypt volume and restarted the backup to the drive (which takes forever).
All I can do now is wait for the backup to finish, and pray that the house doesn't catch on fire.....
After that a new case for SpinRite.
Reader Comments (2)
I think TrueCrypt is such a great tool, I have used 7.0 version in my system. What I like the most are its new features like Hardware-accelerated, automatic mounted volume configuration when device gets connected to the computer and partition device-hosted volumes. Improvements in bugs fixes and security enhancements are really effectual.
You can remember one thing that TrueCrypt never saves any decrypted data to a disk – it only stores them temporarily in RAM. Even when the volume is mounted, data stored in the volume is still encrypted. When you restart Windows or turn off your computer, the volume will be dismounted and files stored in it will be encrypted.