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Mister_E
join:2004-04-02
Etobicoke, ON

Mister_E to John Galt6

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Re: TrueCrypt Drive Not Shown

Have you tried re-assigning a drive letter (G:) to the drive through Disk Management?

Disk Management Info for XP

How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP

John Galt6
Forward, March
Premium Member
join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp

John Galt6

Premium Member

Yes...it shows as "unallocated", then I "allocate" the drive, but cannot assign a drive letter to it. On right-click there is no option to assign a drive letter, and no other way to do so in the interface.
Mister_E
join:2004-04-02
Etobicoke, ON

Mister_E

Member

When you right click the drive in Disk Management, the option "Change Drive Letter and Paths" isn't available or greyed out? If so, are you logged in as an administrator?

John Galt6
Forward, March
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join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp

John Galt6

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Not available...

Logged in as Admin.

OldCableGuy3
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>it shows as "unallocated", then I "allocate" the drive, but cannot assign a drive letter to it.

When you selected allocate on the drive you overwrote part of Truecrypt header on the drive which contains the key. You're never going to be able to access that drive again.

You need to start over, format it FAT32 or NTFS and create a truecrypt file container that is 99% of the size of the drive. Use that from now on. Name it ENCRYPTED.TC Although TrueCrypt can do FDE like you have done, it is extremely tempermental and even plugging the drive in to a computer and letting Windows try to auto mount it has been known to overwrite the sectors at the beginning of the drive.

For future reference, never ever ever touch an encrypted drive with Computer Management.