LUKS encryption help

From	detrito@tuta.io
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	LUKS encryption help
Date	2021-08-26 04:00 +0200
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Good evening,

I'm having some worrying problems with LUKS my Debian 10 installation on an external hard drive. As I'm not very technical, I'll try to explain what I did and what is happening now in chronological order.

Around May I installed Debian 10 on my (external) hard drive in BIOS (not UEFI) mode for backup purposes. In the end of June I took the drive out of the drawer and tried to boot into it but to my surprise my LUKS encryption password does not work anymore.
I'm very sure I am typing it right because I had written it into a piece of paper. I have tried to unlock and mount it inside my OS (Manjaro) instead of booting it directly but it also didn't work, and I have also tried to boot in Recovery Mode but to no avail. Every time I type in my password it says it's wrong ("Bad password or options" or someting like that). 

Please help. I have many important documents and pictures inside that drive.
Sorry for my badEnglish.

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LUKS encryption help detrito@tuta.io - 2021-08-26 04:00 +0200
  Re: LUKS encryption help David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 05:50 +0200
  Re: LUKS encryption help piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-08-26 15:30 +0200
    Re: LUKS encryption help piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-08-26 16:10 +0200
  Re: LUKS encryption help David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-08-26 16:50 +0200
  Re: LUKS encryption help David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-08-27 14:00 +0200
  Re: LUKS encryption help Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2021-08-27 17:10 +0200

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