Installed Windows 7 with TrueCrypt drive plugged in, now incorrect password
 

Posted this on the truecrypt support forum to but this site gets a lot more traffic and I know alot of you guys use truecrypt so here it goes:

I bought a new computer and plugged installed windows 7 on a non encrypted drive but had my truecrypt drive plugged into the computer at the time. Now when I try to mount the drive it is saying incorrect password ("i know the password is right". I tried to restore the backup headers or what not, tried everything within the TC software but nothing works. I heard I can quick format it and make an image with get databack but since I might only have once chance to restore this drive I want to make sure I know what I am doing. This drive has my backups for over 5 years and is extremely important for my business. I hope someone can guide me in the right direction.

nope :( :(

I was readed somewhere how encryption with windows 7 is tricky beacuse windows 7 creates small invisible partition for system files and that make it problematic.

no way, windows is problematic :)

Good thinking. Normally before doing anything that could possibly make any changes to
a damaged drive, you want to first make a copy of it. On Windows, you can go down
to your local store and spend $75 on Norton Ghost, or you can download any boot
floppy, CD-ROM, or DVD from any other operating system made since 1970 and
a "copy something" tool will be included. So rather than waste a trip to the store and
$75, just download any Linux. The big Linux distros that take a while to download
will have pretty icons you can click to copy your drive. With little floppy based ones
that download in 60 seconds, you have to type the "dd" command.

Assuming you're impatient and download a tiny floppy style one, here are the
commands to type:
fdisk -l /dev/sda
fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Look carefully and make sure you know which is your old disk and which is the
new one you're copying to. Then check again. You don't want to copy emptiness
onto your data drive, so be sure you know which drive is which. Then:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

The above is if sda of the old drive (input) and sdb is the new (output).
otherwise, reverse it:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda

You now have a copy of your drive.

Yes, I think so.