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  • 1.  Unable to resume WDE or remove it from USB Drive

    Posted May 16, 2011 03:06 PM

    As you may have seen from another post, I had a problem with a BSOD when attaching a Freecom XXS USB drive that had been partly encrypted.

    So I reformatted the drive whilst trying to solve that problem (which turned out to be a driver problem in the end).

    It still gets recognised by windows as an encrypted drive and asks for the passphrase. When I try to resume using PGP Desktop, nothing appears to happen.

     

    I've used the commmand line to glean the following information:

       pgpwde --status --disk 1

Disk 1 is instrumented by bootguard.
Encryption process interrupted by user request

  Current key is valid.

Whole disk encrypted

  Total sectors: 976769023

     

     

    If I try to manually resume, I get the following
     pgpwde --resume --disk 1 --passphrase xxxxxxxxx


Operation resume encrypt or decrypt failed:

Error code -11984: item not found
     
    There's nothing on the drive that I need, so is there a way to either force it to continue the encryption, or even just remove it completely from the USB drive so that I can start again from scratch.
     
    I did try the following, also unsuccessfully:
     pgpwde --uninstrument --disk 1

Uninstrument error

Disk 1 has an authenticated encryption key

Disk 1 use decrypt to remove

Operation uninstrument disk failed:

Error code -11971: already in use

    So can anyone help me?

     

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: Unable to resume WDE or remove it from USB Drive
    Best Answer

    Posted May 27, 2011 05:12 AM

    I have finally solved this. 

     

    I wasn't aware of the 'diskpart' utility in Windows Vista that gives very comprehensive disk management functions. A quick use of the "CLEAN" function cured it and I was able to start again.

    I won't describe exactly how to use diskpart (because it can cause signficant data loss!) but there is plenty of info out there if you google.



  • 3.  RE: Unable to resume WDE or remove it from USB Drive

    Posted Jun 08, 2011 06:10 PM

    I was visiting a site to get images for my web site and, thay asked me for my "Passphrase"? I have 11 Google accounts.

    They sent me to you? Can you tell e whatthis "Passphrase" is, and how do I ge one.?

    Many Thanks,

    Kitty Curcio

    Womenmeetsolutions.com

    kittytile@sbcglobal.net

    kittycurciodesigns@gmail.com

    818-344-3536