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Hey everyone,
I'm facing an issue with my Home Assistant setup. After restarting the system, it suddenly stopped booting, and I can’t find a boot option for the drive in the BIOS.
Before the reboot, I made several backups, but I encountered issues restoring them within Home Assistant due to the encryption. Here’s what I’ve done so far:
1. Decrypting the Encrypted Backup:
I was able to download the encrypted backup to my Windows PC. However, I had trouble restoring it within Home Assistant because of the encryption. After some research, I found a Python script that allowed me to decrypt the backup on my Windows machine. The script was referenced in a thread on the Home Assistant forums here and is available on GitHub here.
2. Examining the Home Assistant Drive:
I first tried to boot from the drive on a different machine, but unfortunately, it didn't work. After that, I removed the drive from the Home Assistant machine, mounted it on my Windows PC, and used a program called DiskInternals to examine the files on the drive. I can access the files and directories, but I'm not sure what the best next step is.
Where I'm Stuck:
I'm not sure if I should try to make the original drive bootable again or if there’s another way to recover the setup. I do have a clean install of Home Assistant on a new drive, but I was hoping to boot from the original drive on another PC to create an unencrypted backup.
Any guidance on what steps to take next would be greatly appreciated!
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