Decrypting External Hard Drive
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A couple months back I had an old 350 gb Transcend external drive I forgot about and on a whim, installed Ubuntu on it. After using it for a couple months I decided to ditch Windows all together and installed Ubuntu on my laptop permanently, a decision I have no regrets over.
Now, the problem. There are some files on the external drive I want, the drive is encrypted. When I plug the drive in, it mounts, in the drive is an icon,Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop, when I double click it, a window pops up and closes so quickly I can not see what it is, I assumed it would prompt me for a password or something but it doesn't.
I have searched to try and find a solution, I am currently digging through my copy of the Linux Bible and other resources but have so far come up empty. I don't have the skills yet, but I'm working on it, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
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A couple months back I had an old 350 gb Transcend external drive I forgot about and on a whim, installed Ubuntu on it. After using it for a couple months I decided to ditch Windows all together and installed Ubuntu on my laptop permanently, a decision I have no regrets over.
Now, the problem. There are some files on the external drive I want, the drive is encrypted. When I plug the drive in, it mounts, in the drive is an icon,Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop, when I double click it, a window pops up and closes so quickly I can not see what it is, I assumed it would prompt me for a password or something but it doesn't.
I have searched to try and find a solution, I am currently digging through my copy of the Linux Bible and other resources but have so far come up empty. I don't have the skills yet, but I'm working on it, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
hard-drive encryption external-hdd decryption
edited May 10 at 6:12
d a i s y
3,03672242
asked May 10 at 3:17
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If you connect it to your computer (internally or via eSATA or USB), you should be able to boot from it again. Do you remember the password/passphrase? Otherwise you have bad luck. It should also be possible to decrypt it manually without booting from it (as long as you remember the password/passphrase).
– sudodus
May 10 at 3:47
Find out which command is executed by the.desktopfile: open it with a text editor or executecat /path/to/file.desktopin a terminal. There should be a line beginning withExec=, that is the command that is run when you double click it. In a terminal, navigate to your external drive and run the command. Now you should be able to see what is going wrong.
– danzel
May 10 at 8:42
Thank you for your help, I upgraded the system to 18.04 LTS and I was able to open it without any problems by clicking the .Desktop icon and entering the passphrase. Thanks again for the help.
– tooHigh
May 12 at 17:43
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A couple months back I had an old 350 gb Transcend external drive I forgot about and on a whim, installed Ubuntu on it. After using it for a couple months I decided to ditch Windows all together and installed Ubuntu on my laptop permanently, a decision I have no regrets over.
Now, the problem. There are some files on the external drive I want, the drive is encrypted. When I plug the drive in, it mounts, in the drive is an icon,Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop, when I double click it, a window pops up and closes so quickly I can not see what it is, I assumed it would prompt me for a password or something but it doesn't.
I have searched to try and find a solution, I am currently digging through my copy of the Linux Bible and other resources but have so far come up empty. I don't have the skills yet, but I'm working on it, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
hard-drive encryption external-hdd decryption
edited May 10 at 6:12
d a i s y
3,03672242
asked May 10 at 3:17
tooHigh
111
A couple months back I had an old 350 gb Transcend external drive I forgot about and on a whim, installed Ubuntu on it. After using it for a couple months I decided to ditch Windows all together and installed Ubuntu on my laptop permanently, a decision I have no regrets over.
Now, the problem. There are some files on the external drive I want, the drive is encrypted. When I plug the drive in, it mounts, in the drive is an icon,Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop, when I double click it, a window pops up and closes so quickly I can not see what it is, I assumed it would prompt me for a password or something but it doesn't.
I have searched to try and find a solution, I am currently digging through my copy of the Linux Bible and other resources but have so far come up empty. I don't have the skills yet, but I'm working on it, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
hard-drive encryption external-hdd decryption
edited May 10 at 6:12
d a i s y
3,03672242
asked May 10 at 3:17
tooHigh
111
edited May 10 at 6:12
d a i s y
3,03672242
edited May 10 at 6:12
d a i s y
3,03672242
edited May 10 at 6:12
d a i s y
3,03672242
3,03672242
asked May 10 at 3:17
tooHigh
111
asked May 10 at 3:17
tooHigh
111
asked May 10 at 3:17
tooHigh
111
111
If you connect it to your computer (internally or via eSATA or USB), you should be able to boot from it again. Do you remember the password/passphrase? Otherwise you have bad luck. It should also be possible to decrypt it manually without booting from it (as long as you remember the password/passphrase).
– sudodus
May 10 at 3:47
Find out which command is executed by the.desktopfile: open it with a text editor or executecat /path/to/file.desktopin a terminal. There should be a line beginning withExec=, that is the command that is run when you double click it. In a terminal, navigate to your external drive and run the command. Now you should be able to see what is going wrong.
– danzel
May 10 at 8:42
Thank you for your help, I upgraded the system to 18.04 LTS and I was able to open it without any problems by clicking the .Desktop icon and entering the passphrase. Thanks again for the help.
– tooHigh
May 12 at 17:43
add a comment |Â
If you connect it to your computer (internally or via eSATA or USB), you should be able to boot from it again. Do you remember the password/passphrase? Otherwise you have bad luck. It should also be possible to decrypt it manually without booting from it (as long as you remember the password/passphrase).
– sudodus
May 10 at 3:47
Find out which command is executed by the.desktopfile: open it with a text editor or executecat /path/to/file.desktopin a terminal. There should be a line beginning withExec=, that is the command that is run when you double click it. In a terminal, navigate to your external drive and run the command. Now you should be able to see what is going wrong.
– danzel
May 10 at 8:42
Thank you for your help, I upgraded the system to 18.04 LTS and I was able to open it without any problems by clicking the .Desktop icon and entering the passphrase. Thanks again for the help.
– tooHigh
May 12 at 17:43
If you connect it to your computer (internally or via eSATA or USB), you should be able to boot from it again. Do you remember the password/passphrase? Otherwise you have bad luck. It should also be possible to decrypt it manually without booting from it (as long as you remember the password/passphrase).
– sudodus
May 10 at 3:47
If you connect it to your computer (internally or via eSATA or USB), you should be able to boot from it again. Do you remember the password/passphrase? Otherwise you have bad luck. It should also be possible to decrypt it manually without booting from it (as long as you remember the password/passphrase).
– sudodus
May 10 at 3:47
Find out which command is executed by the
.desktop file: open it with a text editor or execute cat /path/to/file.desktop in a terminal. There should be a line beginning with Exec=, that is the command that is run when you double click it. In a terminal, navigate to your external drive and run the command. Now you should be able to see what is going wrong.– danzel
May 10 at 8:42
Find out which command is executed by the
.desktop file: open it with a text editor or execute cat /path/to/file.desktop in a terminal. There should be a line beginning with Exec=, that is the command that is run when you double click it. In a terminal, navigate to your external drive and run the command. Now you should be able to see what is going wrong.– danzel
May 10 at 8:42
Thank you for your help, I upgraded the system to 18.04 LTS and I was able to open it without any problems by clicking the .Desktop icon and entering the passphrase. Thanks again for the help.
– tooHigh
May 12 at 17:43
Thank you for your help, I upgraded the system to 18.04 LTS and I was able to open it without any problems by clicking the .Desktop icon and entering the passphrase. Thanks again for the help.
– tooHigh
May 12 at 17:43
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If you connect it to your computer (internally or via eSATA or USB), you should be able to boot from it again. Do you remember the password/passphrase? Otherwise you have bad luck. It should also be possible to decrypt it manually without booting from it (as long as you remember the password/passphrase).
– sudodus
May 10 at 3:47
Find out which command is executed by the
.desktopfile: open it with a text editor or executecat /path/to/file.desktopin a terminal. There should be a line beginning withExec=, that is the command that is run when you double click it. In a terminal, navigate to your external drive and run the command. Now you should be able to see what is going wrong.– danzel
May 10 at 8:42
Thank you for your help, I upgraded the system to 18.04 LTS and I was able to open it without any problems by clicking the .Desktop icon and entering the passphrase. Thanks again for the help.
– tooHigh
May 12 at 17:43