I have not updated to version 14 and now Wonix-Workstation does not loading

[Evgene]

[0anon]

Hi Evgene

Whonix 13 has reached end of life and is now deprecated

Whonix 13 approaching EOL (End of Life) - 2018 September 30 - all users must upgrade!

All Whonix users: The Whonix team would like to thank each and every community member for all the hard work that was put into supporting Whonix 13 over that last 2 years. Through your efforts, Whonix 13 was a great success and by and large surpassed all expectations. With the recent release of Whonix 14, a hard decision needed to be made about the feasibility of continued Whonix 13 support. Under ideal circumstances, Whonix developers would continue to support Whonix 13 for an extended perio…

This means Whonix 13 is unsupported.

Undocumented, Untested or Unsupported Features

[Evgene]

Does this mean that I lost the data irrevocably?

[Evgene]

Are there any options to save information?

It’s very sad

[Patrick]

It’s showing a virtual hard drive failure. It might be a VirtualBox error that only happens with specific hardware / in specific situations. Not my area of knowledge so I won’t be able to help with this.

Who might(!) be able to help with this:

• VirtualBox paid support
• another very knowledgeable linux support
• data recovery / forensics expert

If you don’t find anyone… Hopefully you have a backup of your data. Update is unrealistic. If you’re lucky you can recover your data.

Recommendation:

• make a clone of the VM - this helps to not further damage the virtual hardrive in case of data recovery experiments

My answer assumes you are interested to recover any data from the VM.

Then boot from a Linux live CD and see if you can access any data.

If you don’t want to recover any data from the VM, forget about the update, delete the VM, download and install Whonix 14.