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Restoring lost encrypted partition
I accidantally formatted the entire hard disk (quick format into NTFS)
it contains multiple partitions of different filesystem
- ext4 encrypted with luks (whole partition encryption)
- ext4 no encrypted
- ntfs not encrtpted
I restored partition (ext4 no encrypted) & (ntfs not encrtpted) using testdisk but it seems complicated restoring the encrypted partition which is the partition that contains important files,
I searched for LUKS using grep and it shows many lines containing 'LUKS',
here is the first line:
9f175110 c5 df 3c de b8 a7 f1 cb 36 0a e9 e9 4c 55 4b 53 |..<.....6...LUKS|
I tried losetup then cryptsetup but cryptsetup shows an error:
Device /dev/loop is not a valid LUKS device
the encrypted partition shows on testdisk (it shows total size of partition, size of stored data , and partition label name):
start End size in sectors
D Linux filesys. data 2046 591900669 591898624
D Linux filesys. data 2048 591900671 591898624
can someone help please??!