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Re: Using Truecrypt to Encrypt Your Entire Hard Drive

gaboca — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:33:49 -0000

Hi Randy,

Thank you very much your help.

Re: Using Truecrypt to Encrypt Your Entire Hard Drive

gaboca — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:34:28 -0000

Hi Randy,

Thank you for your answer.
So I can reinstall my OS or uninstall TC as information(for my password,etc) is stored on the encrypted drive.Shall I need to do some type of back up just in case before uninstalling TC or OS?
I was planning actually to Install Win7 as well as a dual boot(other OS will be WinVista) the main reason for this to try to keep one OS only for personal/online banking and nothing else,other OS for rest of other activity.Actually I was planning to get Linux,but not sure if Online banking would be compatible with it.I guess I still can use Firefox as normal.

I got an other question.I was planning to do a hidden volume within a normal encrypted one(460GB non OS drive encryption) and when it offered me the space for hidden part it was only 240GB.I have only about 120MB info saved and drive is NTFS formatted.Even if I would chose this option to hidden encrypt for about half of my drive, would it be any problem if I try to DEFRAGMENT my drive?
How does it work?Let say I will chose protect my hidden data against recording(I guess when I mount my "normal"encrypted volume) but what if I mount a hidden volume one,would it automatically detect the other normal encrypted volume.Other words,if I chose DEFRAGMENT drive would it always defragment the whole HD(460GB) or just the one which is mounted.

Sorry for so many questions.I like this TC,but they do not very explain certain part.

Thanks for your answer again.
Good luck with Win7.

Re: Using Truecrypt to Encrypt Your Entire Hard Drive

gaboca — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:27:36 -0000

Hi Randy,

I would like to ask some questions.
I just encrypted my portable hard drive(the whole drive).
Can I uninstall/reinstall my operating system(w-vista) on my laptop,because that will delete my Truecript installed on my computer?Do I need to do some back up?
Or can I just uninstall and reinstall Truecrypt if I want?Where is my password/key stored?
My other question is that when I did full disc encryption it did not let me to select just the drive(full capacity,but the drive letter was not shown),it only aloud me to encrypt partition1(my drive only has 1 partition)-also it was shown the full capacity of my HD-the drive letter and drive name was shown.
If I decide to cancel/remove the encryption of my drive how shall I do it.I read the instruction manual of Truecrypt,but for me is a little confusing what is there.
I can not decide which option shall I chose(A or B).
A:If the volume is partition-hosted (applies also to USB flash drives)
B:If the volume is device-hosted (i.e., there are no partitions on the device, and the device is entirely encrypted)
As I encrypted my whole drive(it should be B),but when I started the encryption it only let e chose to encrypt partition1(which would be A).

Thank you for your answer in advance.