Decrypting a TrueCrypt drive pulled from another machine

I work in a corporate environment and we are now required to encrypt laptops.

I have already encrypted about 5 or 6 out of 40.

I still have a few questions before we go all out with TrueCrypt.

Can I decrypt a hard drive by plugging it into my desktop using a data transfer kit? I tried this and the hard drive showed up asking me to format before using the volume.

If I have the TRD from each laptop backed up do I still need to backup the volume headers?

What else do I need to back up?

Thanks.

Solution 1:

If you need to recover data off of a truecrypt encrypted hard drive do the following:

• Step 1: plug in the hard drive to a computer with Truecrypt installed.
• Step 2: Open Truecrypt and click "Select Device" in the box where it says "Volume".
• Step 3: Select the partition that in encrypted and click "OK"
• Step 4: Pick a drive letter from the list then click "Mount"
• Step 5: After the password box pops up click "Mount options..." check "Mount volume as removable media" and "Mount partition using system encryption without pre-boot authentication" and click "OK".
• Step 6: Enter the password and click "OK"
• Step 7: Right click on the mounted device in the drive list and click "Open."

This should allow you to see the entire drive and copy over any data you may need.