I wanted to decrypt my hard drive that was encrypted with true crypt so I started the decryption. Right now its stuck at 38.343% done and whenever I try to start it my computer gets stuck and I get a error saying "The request could not be performed bacause of an I/O error. When I click ok it sais, "The driver is damaged etc." At the bottom it sais, "If this error occurs at the same place, it is very likely caused by a bad disk block etc." I ran chkdsk /r and after a few hours it corrected 3 bad blocks. I start up my computer and try to start decrypting my hard drive and I get the same error. Is there any way to fix this? Please help.

Hi to PCHF bad blocks are not good it's physical damage to the surface of the hard drive will the PC boot in safe mode? Tap F8 key at post boot when you first turn PC on a menu will appear select safe mode. If it boots do a system restore to before you loaded the software. Post back results

Actually it wont boot in safe mode I tried that. It gets stuck at a crcdisk.sys and after about 30 minutes it restarts.

Is there any important data on this drive? It maybe worth putting in another PC as a secondary drive and recover data. Because this drive will have to be replaced any way maybe best to get your data off and install a new drive and install windows and transfer your stuff back.

I cant transfer the data because its still 64 percent encrypted and I cant decrypt it because it wont get past the bad disk block error. Is there any way to skip over that?

Ok got an idea and I think this maybe your only chance to recover from this you will need a good hard drive and nortons ghost to try it this may or may not work. Ghost your bad hard drive to the good hard drive using the ghost -bfc (skips/work around bad blocks) once you have the image on the new drive finish the encryption