Need help on cracking veracrypt hidden partition

[LCK]

I'm not sure what you mean by "the command doesnt seem to allow dd to read from the hidden partition". That's exactly what the command does, extracting the KDF data for the hidden partition. That's all you need to crack the password.

To combine your words you can use princeprocessor.

To verify your approach it is recommended however to first create a new volume with a known password and trying to crack that. If you succeed with doing that move on to your actual target.

Thanks a lot for the reply
So this 'if=hashcat_ripemd160_AES_hidden.raw' allows dd to read from the hidden partition while this 'of=hashcat_ripemd160_AES_hidden.tc' is the output of the hash file?