Corrupt PGPdisk?...

[7Ray]

Hi!
My PC had to be fully reinstalled, so I backed up a lot of files, including a 2GB PGPdisk, to a remote drive. After reinstallation, I can't open that disk anymore... I think it got corrupted while being copied.

There's no error. The passphrase window opens normally, but my passphrase is always rejected. Furthermore, if I open the disk with the Edit Disk option, it also generates no error, but the window comes empty... no username, read-only or kind information at all.

Anyone had any similar situation. Any hope that the disk may be recovered?

Thanks in advance!
Ray

 

[AHinMaine]

did you back up your pgp keys as well?

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[7Ray]

Yes, I backed up my keys and restored them already. They're working.

Anyway my PGP disk was not encrypted to a key, but to a username/passphrase. I usually do so, so that I can burn a disk into a CD and open it in another machine, even if it doesn't have the same keys.

Thank for your reply, anyway!

 

[danz5556]

Well, I also have the EXACT same problem.
One of my large pgpdisk wont open anymore with the password.
User & kind info are gone.
This happend after I did scrubbing my system.
SOmehow some file is deleted, maybe the same when you reinstall windows.

I have found no solution of this problem.
Have you??

 

[7Ray]

Sorry, but I found no solution and finally gave up and deleted the pgpdisk file. Although I had backup for most of its content, I did lost some newly inserted files that were rather valuable to me....

Regards,
Ray

 

[VictorySabre]

This may be a little late since you deleted the file, but was your PC on an NT domain or a standalone PC where you logon with a local account? Do you still have a backup of the file to try?

If you run into the same problem again, check the file permissions of the PGPDisk file to make sure you have access to that file.

If you were able to successfully enter your name and password to mount your PGPDisk file but the contents appear empty or you were denied access, try checking the permissions on the "drive" of the PGPDisk.

I had assigned specific permissions to the disk and when I changed login accounts to log on to my PC, I was able to mount the disk but couldn't access the files. I checked the permissions and changed it to match my new account and it worked fine. I almost deleted the PGPDisk file until I checked the permissions.

 

[skyfer]

I have EXACTLY the same problem. I ran PGP 8.0 under Windows 2000 Pro and PGPDisk worked without problems. Then I installed Windows XP Pro and now I can't access my PGPDisk!

Well, I can't access my big PGP file (60 GB), but I can access my 100 MB PGPDisk just fine. The permissions are the same on the two files, but still I get the ol' "Access is denied" error when trying to access the mounted drive of the big file. (Also, it names the drive "Local Disk" instead of the name of the acutal PGP file)

On both files (actually on the entire drive) I've granted full access for both "Administrators" and my personal account. I've tried switching inheritable permissions on and off and to play with the permissions in lots of other ways - nothing works!

HOW EXACTLY were your permissions on the PGP file set up? Or is there some other Windows XP thingie that could be causing this?

 

[skyfer]

OK, I found the solution! It wasn't the permissions on the PGPDisk file itself but the permissions on the mounted drive that needed to be changed. I just deleted the old permissions (from my previous installation of Windows) and granted myself acces to the drive and BAM - I could access the drive!

Thanks to VictorySabre, though - for pointing me in the right direction!