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 Encrypted D partition appears unformatted after restore of unencrypted C partition

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DazedAndConfused posted Dec 05, 2020 10:55 PM
Hello

I have been experimenting with backing up & restoring my C drive:
Disk 0 before restoration:
    System Reserved 350MB
    C "system" -- not encrypted
    D "user"     -- encrypted using Encryption Desktop 10.3.2 MP7

After restoring C (and I guess the MBR), the encrypted D partition appears as unformatted.

Looking through various older posts, it appears there is no way to edit or instrument the MBR forcing the boot process to ask for the D partition password at system start-up?

FYI -- after booting, I have tried commands such as pgpwde --recover -d 0 --passphrase "your passphrase" but no encrypted partition can be found.  I also tried instrumenting the disk; the password prompt appears at boot for ~1 second and then disappears, the normal system start-up continues.

I would like to confirm if there is anyway the MBR (or wherever it needs to be done) can be configured to see the D partition as encrypted?

Thanks a lot...Peter