Filevault meets Kernel Panic

[fatkitty]

I had the unfortunate poor luck of a sudden corrupted hard drive, causing a Kernal Panic immediately as the log-in screen appeared. Disk Utility etc. failed me.

I purchased a new HDD, installed the latest OS X again, and have recovered most of my files from the old HDD.

The twist is that I was using Filevault on my original drive, meaning I cannot recover anything in my user home folder. It does not even appear unless you boot up from that same HDD (which I still cannot do, of course -- Kernal Panic reappears).

Any ideas? Perhaps my next step is Disk Warrior on the old drive.

[fatkitty]

Not quite sure where to go with this... has anyone tried moving a File Vault volume onto another drive to use as the access (start-up) drive?

Or any other thoughts on how to get out of this mess and access my data?

Thank you.

[calebjohnston]

I believe file vault function is to stop file retrieval in cases like this (assuming you were some mysterious crook).

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If you can get it back, it'll be relatively tough I'm thinking.


EDIT: Bing, bang, boom. 1000th post.

[fatkitty]

You are probably right. But I do know the File Vault password, so one would think it should let me if I could somehow move this file into the home folder of my new HD.

Or, I may have to somehow resolve the kernel panic. Any ideas on how to do that? I would imagine I need software that rebuilds my directory.

[grapes911]

Or, I may have to somehow resolve the kernel panic. Any ideas on how to do that? I would imagine I need software that rebuilds my directory.

Did you try reinstalling OS X on the old hard drive? Don't do a clean install, but an archive and install or a upgrade install might fix the system and get you up and running again.

[fatkitty]

Yes, I did try reiinstalling the OS, using archive and re-install, but it failed. I wonder if fsck would help... I still think I may need 3rd party software to rebuild the directory.