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Something happened to my laptop recently and whenever I booted it up, it freezes and my cap locks button blinks. I did a little googling on this and it appears that it is caused due to a kernel panic. This might have been caused by me removing my SD card while it was formatting.

My question is this: I have downloaded a new Ubuntu image and booted to my USB and I am trying to save some of the files on my laptop before I reformat it since I can't seem to fix the kernel panic. When I boot in the USB and go to "Try It", I am able to load up my HD. (I have encrypted the HD and encrypted my Home Folder). I enter the password to mount the HD but I am unable to access the home folder. Is this because of when I encrypted the home folder as well? If so, I do not get a prompt to enter the password. How would I be able to access the home folder? Thanks!

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It sounds like you're using dm-crypt/cryptsetup/LUKS on your whole partition, and also eCryptFS for your old home folder. Since you can already decrypt the whole partition ok, you just need to decrypt your home folder now.

Easiest is probably using the ecryptfs-recover-private script, just run it (optionally telling it where your encrypted private directory is) and it should take care of the rest.

See these for more info:

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