How can I crack a veracrypt encrypted partition?

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Maybe you are trying to extract the "hash" from the wrong partition?

Hmm, maybe that's the reason. I chose another partition in dd, now the text contains just weird symbols. But how can I be sure that I extracted the right hash? I thought there is some information in the hash (e.g. some text like "veracrypt bootloader", similar to the procedure on this page). Do I need a HEX viewer or something like this?