If he's using truecrypt's software on both platforms and the volume mounts with truecrypt on both platforms, the data should be accessible.
You CAN NOT mount a truecrypt partition directly, you must use truecrypt to mount it or it will show up as a Healthy (unformatted partition) in Windows. Also be sure that you are using the same version of truecrypt on both OS' and that the Linux method of formatting FAT32 is acceptable to Windows. FAT12 maybe universal but MS played games making various versions of FAT32 over the years. I suspect it's the format done in linux that's the issue. Based on that, I'd be doing the FAT32 formatting in Windows, not the other way around. I use truecrypt for my thumb drive, but it was created with windows version and I have never tried to mount it under linux TC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No. Totally encrypted drives have an encrypted file table. Windows will see it as junk unless it has the transaction layer software to see it. > > Sent via BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Brian Weeden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:12:17 > To:hwg <[email protected]> > Subject: [H] Windows not seeing FAT32 created in Linux? > > > I created a encrypted FAT32 partition under Linux with all my data > using Truecrypt. Works great. I just tried to mount the same > partition in XP and it mounts but then windows tells me it needs to be > formatted. WTF? Shouldn't it work? > > I also have a USB key that was formatted using FAT32 that gives me the > same problem. I could understand if it was ext or NTFS it would be > hard to move between the two but I thought FAT was practically > universal? > > The problem is that I can't boot into linux (posted in another thread) > but I can boot into Windows and would like to have access to my damn > data. > > Grrrrr......I really hate it when your puter decides to take a shit at > the worst possible moment. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC
