Truecrypt is software that is used to encrypt or decrypt (virtual) partitions or entire drives.
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How do I disable “you need to format this disk” message in Windows Vista/7?
I've started using TrueCrypt to encrypt a partition on an external USB hard drive. I've opted for using a raw partition as opposed to a file container.
But here's the annoyance. Whenever I connect ...
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Speed of TrueCrypt whole disk encryption
I'm getting a new development laptop soon, and I'm thinking of using TrueCrypt to encrypt the whole disk.
What kind of performance drop can I expect? 10%? 30%? More? Also, assuming the workload has ...
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Using TrueCrypt (software encryption) with an SSD
I use full drive encryption (FDE) w/ TrueCrypt on my laptop. I have a 2nd gen I7 with AES instruction support, so honestly I can't even notice a speed change on the system with it on.
My question, ...
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Full disk encryption on dual boot system using TrueCrypt
I'm thinking about encrypting my whole harddrive for example using TrueCrypt, which I've used for encrypting file containers for a while. It is possible to encrypt the whole harddisk through the ...
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Is TrueCrypt truly safe?
I have been using TrueCrypt for a long time now. However, someone pointed me to a link that described the problems with the license.
IANAL and so it really didn't make much sense to me; however, I ...
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Encrypting a single file with password and keyfile
I am a fan of TrueCrypt and I guess it's the best encryption tool available. As far as I understand, TrueCrypt created encrypted containers which acts a place to store files.
I would like to encrypt ...
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Expand TrueCrypt volume on Mac OS
Are there any known solutions to manually or automatically expand a TrueCrypt volume on Mac OS?
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Truecrypt + Windows 7 100MB partition corrupt
I've got a problem. I have a new SSD where I installed W7 Ultimate. However my other drive (HDD) had W7 Ultimate with Truecrypt (Entire System Drive). Sadly the first 100MB of this disk has now ...
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Is there any way to force a Windows 7 computer to process autoruns.inf on a USB stick?
There is nothing nefarious about this question.
We have some temporary worker who will be doing work on some confidential information.
I would like to give them the data on a USB stick, set up as ...
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How to protect/prevent/lock a Truecrypt volume (container file) against deletion , on an external HDD?
I’ve a Truecrypt volume container file on an external HDD ,
Though Truecrypt voulmes container files are fully encrypted , they are deletable , just like normal files
I want to prevent it from ...
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Recovering corrupt Truecrypt Disk
I have a 2 TB external hard drive that I've encrypted using Truecrypt.
I made a complete backup of all my data to it, and wiped my hard drive and reinstalled my operating systems.
Once I reinstalled ...
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How can you use Windows Backup with a TrueCrypt encrypted backup destination?
Background
There are numerous backup solutions out there for Windows and they come in many different forms. From a file copy and/or syncing tool like SyncBackSE to whole hard drive backup utilities ...
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Does “Mount volume as removable medium” reduce the chances of data corruption with a TrueCrypt encrypted USB hard drive?
I have an external USB hard drive plugged in to my laptop some of the time. The external drive is whole drive encrypted using TrueCrypt.
I always check "Mount volume as removable medium" in the hope ...
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How much will full-disk encryption slow down a netbook?
I've been comfortable using TrueCrypt volumes to protect various sets of files on my computers. But I've gathered there can be more convenience and security to be had be encrypting the full hard disk, ...
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How to use Dropbox with Truecrypt?
I have some files that need to be accessible from multiple computers, but encrypted on each computer. Something like the 'shared folder' feature on Dropbox, but with the folder encrypted locally on ...
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Mac OS X full-disk encryption, with Time Machine
I want to encrypt at least my home partition on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5. I know both File Vault and TrueCrypt would do this, but I also want to keep on using Time Machine to back up my ...
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Recover data from a corrupt truecrypt encrypted partiton
If you have a drive that totatly encrypted using Truecrypt and somehow the boot sector / disk header is corrupted and you can no longer mount the truecrypt volume, is it somehow possible to recover ...
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Upgrade to Windows 8 on encrypted drive fails and corrupted my TrueCrypt bios password
I just bought Windows 8, which I downloaded to my PC. The PC has full drive encryption, and I selected "Keep nothing" type of install for Windows 8.
When the downloader finished and restarted the ...
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Decrypt files encrypted with TrueCrypt
I have a usb pen memory crypted with TrueCrypt.
Is there a way to decrypt ( without TrueCrypt ) files encrypted with TrueCrypt in linux ?
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Is it possible to mount a TrueCrypt volume to a NTFS mount point?
The question is simple really.
Under Linux etc.. you can mount TrueCrypt volumes, files or partitions, to any mount point of your choosing whereas in Windows the interface only shows drive letters.
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Automatically mounting Truecrypt volumes at user login time
I need to mount a Truecrypt volume automatically at user login time. This volume is specific for each user.
I'm not sure how to proceed since I'm not extremely familiar with Linux and the various ...
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Decrypting a TrueCrypt drive pulled from another machine
I work in a corporate environment and we are now required to encrypt laptops.
I have already encrypted about 5 or 6 out of 40.
I still have a few questions before we go all out with TrueCrypt.
Can ...
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TrueCrypt usage: is it possible to have 1 password unlock 2 volumes?
I have been asked by a relative to encrypt both a USB pen & a Hard-disk folder. My immediate thaught was to use Truecrypt being that its free and relativly decent!
My question is this: is there a ...
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Volume Shadow Copy based backup that works with TrueCrypt?
I have enabled whole-drive encryption on my external drive to comply with my company's requirements about data security. I want to be able to make a backup of files on the drive, even while they're in ...
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Using a decoy operating system, with another OS hidden by TrueCrypt?
TrueCrypt provides an option to use a hidden operating system. This works by having a decoy operating system residing on partition 1, and using partition 2 as (encrypted) data storage for the decoy ...
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Advice on approaches to disk encryption in Ubuntu?
I'm considering encrypting the contents of my laptop, which runs Ubuntu 10.04 and has an ext4 + swap, and I'm wondering what the best options are here. I'm aware of:
TrueCrypt: either block-level ...
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Accessing a windows truecrypt volume using ubuntu
I have a serious problem here: My computer does not boot any more (hangs on the windows start screen), so I tried to use a Ubuntu Live CD access the files and scan for root kits, or at least back up ...
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Does an external hard drive need to have partitions?
I bought a Western Digital 1TB Caviar Green hard drive. I want to store my files on it but also want to encrypt it so I've downloaded TrueCrypt. However TrueCrypt says that I can't encrypt the entire ...
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Can TrueCrypt be configured to dismount volumes when you hibernate?
TrueCrypt can be configured to dismount volumes upon logoff but is it possible to dismount volumes when you hibernate windows?
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Windows 7 Laptop - Truecrypt - Ubuntu?
I have a windows 7 Professional Laptop that has had the entire drive encrypted so as to require a password to allow it to boot up.
There is only one partition on the drive that takes up the entire ...
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TrueCrypt Macbook Pro Windows 7, won't boot from CD anymore
I tried installing Windows 7 as the first partition to TrueCrypt the system drive. Now it won't boot up anymore, it was working though. But now it says no boot partition available, and if I put the ...
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Windows with TrueCrypt and Mac OS X on the same machine
I'm trying to install Windows 7 with a TrueCrypt System Drive encrypted partiton along with Mac OS X and probably using rEFIt as the boot loader. So far I've tried several approaches:
Install ...
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Encrypting two partitions using TrueCrypt
Is it possible to encrypt both the windows system partition and a data partition, without encrypting the whole harddisk, using truecrypt?
It's because the haddisk has other partitions with Fedora ...
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Recover Extended Partition
I have a serious problem. I lost my MBR. But that is first of the problems.
My disk layout was something like this (more less);
sda1 truecrypt-os 80GB
sda2 ext4 8GB
sda3 swap 4GB
(sda4) extended
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True Crypt password recovery
I am using a true crypt software, I have forgot my password can anyone help me.
I know some words that I have used to created a password just don't know how to come up with an answer
