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djackmac, Surprisingly it didnt asked me for any password or anything to turn off the filevault before transferring the data...Migration assistant asked me what settings to transfer and it included my sparsebundle, network settings and folders...After transfer it asked me my normal login...

Hello Guys, If 1. Mac os x is not booting up AND 2. FILE VAULT IS ON AND 3. Your files (sparsebundles/sparseimages)are not corrupted AND 4. Dont want to spend money for simple mistake..then here is the simplest/safest solution. 1. Get/Borrow an external hard drive and plug in. 2. Turn on your...

Hellooz.. Finally i got an answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so stupid...I knew that my files are not corrupted and i was looking for data recovery because my laptop was not booting up and file vault was on. So here is the answer----> 1. I took an external hard drive...formated it using...

hehe....its sparsebundle file not sparseimage :( if i right click it shows me bands of 8mb files...nw yelling at apple....y they kept filevault active by default...:(

I found hdid and hdutil command to attach(mount) images. My user.sparsebundle is from 10.5.8 macbook and i tried to mount it on snow leopard on imac.

I tried to copy sparsebundle file on other machine just now but could not mount it. hdutil says "not recognized". Is there other way to mount this file??

Actually I copied user.sparsebundle to an external hardrive..but not able to mount it somewhere else. Is there anything that can just extract files from user.sparsebundle?? I dont have another mac but can i install mac os X on external drive and boot it from there ? Am i able to see my files...

Hello guys, I was playing with file permissions and now unable to boot my macbook. I tried disk utility option and also archieve and install option from installation disc but failed. Now I have 70GB user.sparsebundle file in my home directory. I am assuming that all my data is in this file...

Hello Guys i need help here... I messed up with file permissions and now my macbook not booting. I tried disk utilities and archieve and install option but failed. Now I have a 70GB sparsebundle in my home directory....dats it!! How can i extract data from it?? Thanks in advance.