Note: I have seen other discussions about accessing a PGP encrypted drive from another system. I think the difference in my case is that my system is standalone, not part of a domain, so the account I am using is defined only on the local system.
My system disk has two partitions. The entire drive is encrypted.
I am moving my system disk from HDD to SSD. I successfully cloned the encrypted drive thanks to Casper Secure Drive Backup. I shutdown, switched the drives, and rebooted from the SSD. All was good to this point.
Next, I did a bit too much cleanup of old files and needed to pull a couple of deleted files off my original HDD. I mounted that old HDD in the spare drive tray (Lenovo laptop). The first time started out Okay. The drive was recognized and I got a prompt for the passphrase -- The passphrase was not accepted and I was prompted to reenter and that was rejected, as well. (This is my main question/issue: why wasn't the passphrase accepted?)
Eventually, I rebooted without the HDD connected, connected the HDD, but now I do not get a prompt for a passphrase! (This is now an additional issue: why don't I get a prompt to enter the passphrase?)
Questions:
1. Is something cached that I need to clear so PGP will recognize the encrypted drive and prompt for the passphrase when the drive is connected?
2. Is there something else that I need to do to enter the passphrase correctly? I'm logged into the same Windows account as was used to encrypt the HDD, originally. The only difference is that now I'm booted from the SSD clone of that HDD. The rest of the HW is identical.
Obviously, there are other ways to get a few files off the HDD, in this case, but I still need a solution, especially for the more general case of encrypting a non-system portable drive on one system then connecting that to and accessing from a different system. In my case, I have two licenses for Symantec Encryption Desktop and want to be able to use the same encrypted portable drive on both systems (one at a time, of course).