File Share Encryption

I had a external drive encrypted with pgpgwde. The drive was encyrpted but I was having trouble accessing the data.

I ran pgp --enum and this reported that the drive was online and instrumented. I tried to decrypt the drive but this failed. I then ran pgpwde --recover and received the following:

201509888 sectors searched, 384562480 sectors to go
IOCTL_PGPWDE_SECTOR_READ failed: The request could not be performed because of a
n I/O device error.

ERROR: read failed, number of sectors searched so far: 201510848

Could not locate valid BGFS record

Recovery failed!

I also ran pgpwde --uninstrument. Now when I run  pgp --enum the drive is reported as being 0 volumes online. Repeated attempts using the --recver nd the --force option also fail. Any ideas what where to go from here?

I am using pgp version 9.5.
 

I'm not optimistic about this - it sounds like you uninstrumented an encrypted drive/disk - this must never be done.

What Windows version are you using?

I am using XP.

Yes I ran the command pgpwde --uninstrument because --decrypt and --recover did not work. Surely this action is not totally unrecoverable? I received no warning message before executing this command.

Can you also advise on the solution for the "Could not locate valid BGFS record"?

Thanks

I'm not able to find anything useful on this error.