TrueCrypt: Open volume without mounting

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Published on 2012-06-22T02:55:30Z Indexed on 2012/06/22 3:17 UTC
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I have a corrupt TrueCrypt volume. When I try to mount it, the password is fine but I get an error: hdiutil attach failed no mountable file systems

I read a post that says you can try to recover the volume, but I have to open it first to try to recover it. I just need to open it without TrueCrypt trying to mount it too, so I can use that partition in a data recovery program. Also it's just an image file volume.

I am using the Mac version, and I have setup an alias for the truecrypt shell command, but I'm not sure how to enter the syntax! Please help.

thank you! T

TrueCrypt: Open volume without mounting

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Published on 2012-06-22T04:45:58Z Indexed on 2012/06/22 9:18 UTC
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I have a corrupt TrueCrypt volume. When I try to mount it, the password is fine but I get an error: hdiutil attach failed no mountable file systems.

I just need to open it without TrueCrypt trying to mount it too, so I can use that partition in a data recovery program. Also it's just an image file volume. I have read the documentation here: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=command-line-usage

But I can't figure out which switch I need to use to only open an image and not mount it.

I am using the Mac version, and I have set up an alias for the TrueCrypt shell command, so I can just type:

truecrypt -t -v - ?? [][]..

TrueCrypt: Open volume without mounting

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Published on 2012-06-22T03:03:11Z Indexed on 2012/06/22 3:18 UTC
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I have a corrupt TrueCrypt volume. When I try to mount it, the password is fine but I get an error: hdiutil attach failed no mountable file systems

I read a post that says you can try to recover the volume, but I have to open it first to try to recover it. I just need to open it without TrueCrypt trying to mount it too, so I can use that partition in a data recovery program. Also it's just an image file volume.

I am using the Mac version, and I have setup an alias for the truecrypt shell command, but I'm not sure how to enter the syntax! Please help.

thank you! T

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