My laptop is broken, and I have to give it to a service tech soon. Unfortunately, I can not easily take off the hard drive with this model, it's deep inside. So I am frantically looking for ways to encrypt it instead.
So I found TrueCrypt, encrypted one of my 4 partitions, which took me 3 hours, and only then it warned me that I can't reuse the same drive letter. It is unclear, maybe it will let me reuse it if I delete my old partition letter in Windows, but I am not taking risks at this point unless I know for sure. I looked up for instructions on decrypting the same drive, and they are kind of complex; not to mention, they might take longer to execute than my computer can live.
Questions:
- Is there a way to mount my new encrypted partition using the old drive letter?
- If not, and I decrypt the drive, what alternative options are available to me? I'm using Windows 7 professional 64 bit. (BitLocker is not available with my version, right?)