PGP Disk Crash.

[b0b]

Anyone every encounter a unmountable pgp disk ?

Running Win2k SP3 with PGP Desktop Security 6.5.3 (Don't like the newer versions, am waiting till November to checkout 8.0)

I had a bsod during the copying of a large number of files between drives.

This now unmountable pgp disk was open at the time but no read/write activity was occuring at the time.

This was a pretty bad crash, my user profile was corrupted (ntuser.dat)

Other disks mount fine except for this one. I don't even get a passphrase prompt just the error msg "This PGPdisk could not be mounted because the file does not appear to be a valid PGPdisk (68)"

After reading six user guides and a couple other pdf's, am unable to find any mention of this error code.

I've found very little in the way of pgp disk troubleshooting, error codes or anything but the basics that would be useful to me.

If any knows the cause and more importantly a recovery method i'd greatly appreciate it. (yes i've run chkdsk and defragmented)

Thanks.

 

[AVChap]

Looks like the PGP header is screwed. In this case you're out of luck

AVChap

 

[b0b]

That had crossed my mind. Think it would be possible to correct like a PE file's header with a hex editor ? Would be the first few byte's of the file. Probably corrupt the data though. Hmm oh well the search continues. Thanks for the reply.

 

[AVChap]

Try the admin program of PGP. Might have some recovery options.

AVChap