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ok im trying to DEENCRYPT IT, and this is what i got at 99.3 :(

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ive googled it and ive came up with nothing of use. ive tried as it came to no avail :(, im not sure if it has any difference but my hard drive (portable), is NTFS format, the funny thing is ive ran the chkdsk utility and NOTHING was wrong with it. (in the HD properties built into windows 7 ultimate), the even more strange thing is i CAN access it like you regularly put in a usb drive and the auto-run popup every-time if i can access it. but yeah i can access the contents of the drive and all BUT this is the nagging message i keep seeing.

suggestions? (btw my portable HD is nearly new) western digital.

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so you are able to view the files do it is decrypting so you can view. i think you have to turn the encrption off in order to fix the error. havent really mess with encyptiion though

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so you are able to view the files do it is decrypting so you can view. i think you have to turn the encrption off in order to fix the error. havent really mess with encyptiion though

theres no way to disable it if there's a situation like im in :( you either have to fully decrypt it (which is what i tried to do) and i got this end result. im still stuck on it, however im still wondering what to do!

thanks for the suggestion myidisbb but it wont help, or im not even sure if theres a way to disable it?

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if you can see stuff then copy and paste it and then shit can the drive

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if you can see stuff then copy and paste it and then shit can the drive

thats alot of porn i have to move over :P, family pics etc. :why:

ok, if i do, do you think that if i reformat that drive it will work like it always has?

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did u pause it during decrypt? it's a common issue whenever pausing it during encrypt n decrypt.. no hope then.. u lost ur data.. the only way I know: reformat the hdd..

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dont really apply :(

i cant recover" anything, like i mean i CAN acess the drive and the contents and whatnot but i still see the above error :(

did u pause it during decrypt? it's a common issue whenever pausing it during encrypt n decrypt.. no hope then.. u lost ur data.. the only way I know: reformat the hdd..

i may have but i dont remember :/

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do you guys think if i move said contents to another portable harddrive and i format the "bad" drive it will fix it?

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Not sure. It should.

I personally would never like to encrypt the HD. And if I would, I'll prefer something like Truecrypt (even though it's giving me BSOD these days, but you get the point).

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Who stores porn on their external drive? :\

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Who stores porn on their external drive? :\

well ive got a small ass internal drive and all i got wont fit on a drive this small wit hthe installation OS :P

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