... how truecrypt handles broken hard disk

Once upon a time there was a hard drive. It served for not so long time and then decided to say good by. Because the drive was polite it denied system partition reading at first. It was a signal to save my data. Windows were no more alive ending in endless rebooting loop. Brave knight Sir Linux of Knoppix came, saw an conquered. There was a truecrypt volume on the dying disk drive. I tried to copy the whole volume file but there was a reading error after 3GB of 10Gb were read. As the truecrypt is implemented for Linux too I installed truecrypt to my old Knoppix Live CD mounted the broken volume and rescued all the interesting data. Just for a case I backed up truecrypt volume headers but I was lucky because the header in the volume was not corrupted.

The Truecrypt is possibly not the best of breed but it is close.

What a relief ....