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DavidXanatos / DiskCryptor

A fork of the DiskCryptor full disk encryption tool
https://www.diskcryptor.org/
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Windows 10 1909 to 2004 upgrade issue & 2004 issue #12

Closed kwgagel closed 3 years ago

kwgagel commented 3 years ago

Windows would not upgrade with DiskCryptor 1.1 installed. Once un-installed the upgrade proceeded. Re-installing v1.1 on Win 10 ver 2004 went OK but when I launch DiskCryptor 1.1 it just want's to reboot the comptuer with this message: image I upgraded DiskCryptor to 1.2 beta and it is doing the same message. No amount of restarts removes the message and DiskCryptor remains unusable.

DavidXanatos commented 3 years ago

is the driver missing or somehow blocked? try disabling secure boot in bios, you will need to do that to use the bootloader anyway

kwgagel commented 3 years ago

is the driver missing or somehow blocked? try disabling secure boot in bios, you will need to do that to use the bootloader anyway

Sorry, I can't find anything in my BIOS labeled as "Secure Boot". I can say that the driver isn't installing. I tried reinstalling the app and get this error message. image

kwgagel commented 3 years ago

Any updates, comments, suggestions, directions??

DavidXanatos commented 3 years ago

Any updates, comments, suggestions, directions??

Yes: https://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/security/whqlsettings/index.htm this article describes a couple of registry key that can be used to disable the WHQL requirement on secure boot systems.

Alternatively you can get a driver signed with an old certificate that works just fine but is often flagged by anti malware fools.

kwgagel commented 3 years ago

I tried the registry settings and still couldn't make it work. I rechecked my BIOS and turned off Intel's trusted platform and it still didn't install. How do I get the older signed driver?

DavidXanatos commented 3 years ago

Older driver? you mean from the no UEFI compatible releases? that wont help eider. You could try Build v1.2 Beta 2 it uses a different code signing certificate, one that many anti malware fools complain about. But its one that at least untill recently was accepted even by secure boot systems

kwgagel commented 3 years ago

That doesn't work either. I get the same error trying to install Beta 2 version.

kwgagel commented 3 years ago

Any other suggestions? I have an encrypted database I need to access and can't because the driver won't install...

ghost commented 3 years ago

I had the same issue after upgrading to Windows 20H2. I had uninstalled DiskCryptor before updating Windows, and installed it again after the update was complete. After that DiskCryptor was asking me to reboot the computer every time I launched it.

What worked for me was simply uninstalling DiskCryptor again (it showed an error but finished the process successfully), then re-installing it and rebooting one more time. After that it started working just fine.

kwgagel commented 3 years ago

I gave up waiting for help. I remembered my old laptop and installed DiskCryptor on it, decrypted the USB then uninstalled DiskCryptor. I'm using BitLocker now instead.