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Last time, I mentioned Creating Ventoy VDI for Linux Live USB , however, it may not boot on some strange hardware and I unfortunately have quite a few of those. So in such cases, it’s better to boot Linux natively. By doing this, we need Rescuezilla/Clonezilla to extract the Linux system out of Virtualbox’s hard drive (VDI/VMDK). Download and load the ISO of Rescuezilla, a GUI version of Clonezilla, it’s larger but eaiser to use....

Background Story Last week, I experienced a major data loss on my daily driver computer due to encryption failure. Last time I had encountered this sort of situation was over a decade ago with TrueCrypt on an external HDD and unfortunately lost everything that weren’t backed up. I’ve recovered everything from backup this time so I decide to document it. The entire storage on my daily driver is encrypted with LUKS and it suddenly fails on boot decryption....