Questions tagged [disk-encryption]
Disk encryption is the process by which every bit of data on a disk is encrypted, protecting it against unauthorized persons.
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How to save my BitLocker recovery key to my personal Microsoft account, when there is a domain account connected?
I want to encrypt some personal hard drives with BitLocker on Windows 10, and save the recovery keys to my personal Microsoft account, which is the one I connect to Windows with.
The problem is that ...
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SED FDE Samsung 840, 850 EVO in Windows 7 Pro x64. Options to Bitlocker
The goal: In a home computer, to ensure that in the event of theft of drives with or without the computer, that the drives are unreadable. Am wanting to protect financial and personal information.
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Moving the EFI and /boot partition
In a UEFI system the grub bootloader is located on the EFI partition then a /boot is also needed to be present and unencrypted.
I have a Dual boot Linux / Windows hard drive where Windows is ...
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LVM PE migraged to new PV, now Linux boot stops after decryption of LUKS device
I migrated all LV extents from one PV to a new PV. Both old and new PVs were LUKS encrypted devices. root is one of the migrated LVs.
This didn't work as, after migration, boot wouldn't even try to ...
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How can I mount multiple VeraCrypt volumes with one password after startup in Debian?
So I have multiple hard drives encrypted with the same password and instead of having to enter it multiple times I'd like to have it set up so that after booting I automatically get a password-box ...
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Unlock encrypted partions per user account with Bitlocker
I am using a Laptop and have encrypted the system partition, with Bitlocker, so that every user can use it after boot, which works. But I would also like to have multiple partitions (one per user), ...
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How to access 3TB GPT VeraCrypt-encrypted internal HD that shows as a 16TB "GPT Protective Partition"?
So I have a GPT internal hard drive which I fully encrypted with VeraCrypt under Windows 10 64Bit (on a UEFI GPT drive).
Now I'd like to access it under Debian 9.0 or an outdated version of Windows ...
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Veracrypt, what is the purpose of the small EFI partition, beyond the boot manager?
I have Veracrypt full disk encryption under windows. I have 100MB partition which appears to store the EFI software and a 450mb windows recovery partition.
Does this EFI partition and its software do ...
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Is it possible to re-create certificate that was created with EFS?
I have some files that are encrypted with EFS. I do not have the certificate to decrypt. But I do know the username, computer name, password, etc. that were used when the files were created. Is there ...
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How to make encrypted volume that will work like an ID Challenge [closed]
I want to make an encrypted volume where the "master password" de-crypts the volume but there is also an "ID Challenge" password which will open an empty volume.
To explain better, suppose I'm held at ...
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How does Bitlocker recognize a new device?
I have a Microsoft Surface tablet, removed the encrypted drive, and used an SSD adapter to access it.
Therefore Bitlocker detected that the SSD is not on the original device and it asked for my ...
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Bitlocker, or other full-disk encryption (FDE), on Windows 8.1 To Go
I am currently running Windows 8.1 (Pro) To Go on a 256 GB Samsung T3 flash drive and I am wanting to enable Bitlocker, or any FDE/WDE solution, on it.
Currently it is able to boot from a 500 MB EFI ...
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How do you encrypt a laptop that does multi OS booting?
I have a laptop dual booting more than one operating system. This rules out BitLocker since it only works for Windows, correct?
I tried using VeraCrypt from within the Windows side, but it did not ...
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Two encrypted Windows installs?
The idea is to share a computer with another user. Rather than having separate accounts, I'd like to have two separate windows installs. I'm familiar with full disk encryption. I've used True Crypt ...
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Kali installation stuck at Install the GRUB boot loader
I am doing encrypted disk installation. First partition is /dev/sda1, mount point is /boot and it is unencrypted and second partition /dev/sda2, mount point / and it is encrypted partition. Whole ...
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Disconnecting the data cable without dismounting
I know that cutting the electrical power to a whole disk (and specifically an encrypted one), without first dismounting it, can damage data.
How about disconnecting only the data cable? Is that safe? ...
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Does container based full disk/partition encryption reduce SSD life?
Consider Truecrypt/Veracrypt full disk/partition encryption, which as I understand under Windows actually creates an encrypted container which is almost the size of the disk.
As such the SSD is 100% ...
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How to create a VeraCrypt rescue disk from "VeraCrypt Rescue Disk.zip"?
So I got a "VeraCrypt Rescue Disk.zip" file with an "EFI" folder in it and would like to create a rescue disk from it. Meaning I'd like to create a bootable CD or DVD, not an USB stick.
Is this ...
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Encryption of Encrypted data
Is it possible to encrypt encrypted data, using multiple programs so that in order to decrypt you would need both programs? Not really sure if this is possible but just wondering if it was a thing and ...
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Samsung 850 EVO full drive encryption UEFI
I have a new Samsung 850 Evo and would like to do a clean install. This time, I want full drive encryption enabled. So reading through the options, the most obvious one was: enable a hdd password in ...
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Did Windows 10 disable encryption without authorization?
My Windows 10 system was fully encrypted (FDE) using Bitlocker and hardware encryption capabilities of the laptop and the Samsung EVO SSD (how to here).
Here is what I just saw typing manage-bde -...
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Passing luks passphrase to unlock encrypted rootfs with script instead of passing from the terminal
I would like to develop a script which passes LUKS passphrase instead of passing from the keyboard when cryptroot asks user to unlock. I tried to modify cryptroot script, but not able to run it.
It ...
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How to remove or disable McAfee File and Removable Media Protection
How to remove or temporary disable McAfee File and Removable Media Protection? It wants to encrypt USB devices anytime they are plugged in or otherwise it sets them to read only. Any idea how to get ...
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How to enable hardware encryption on Samsung SSD 850 EVO that is used as a boot drive with Windows 10 Pro on an older laptop w/o UEFI?
I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...
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Remove all traces of LUKS from second hard drive
I have a new install of Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop that I am running headless. I'm using xRDP or SSH to administer it. This system will serve as a backup to my synology.
I've installed a 500GB HDD in it ...
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How to create BitLocker encrypted DVD disks?
I am planning to copy my personal data on CD/DVD disks for archival reasons. But I don't want anyone who has the disk to access my data without a password.
So how can I create CD/DVD disks that are ...
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How to create BitLocker protected DVD disks?
I am planning to copy my personal data on CD or DVD disks for archival reasons. But I don't want anyone who has the disk to access my data.
So how can I create CD/DVD drives that are read-only and ...
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Does HDD password in BIOS affect multiple drives equally?
I have an Asus UX32V notebook which has both an onboard SSD (24GB, I think) and a replaceable HDD. Years ago I replaced the HDD with a 250GB SSD (Samsung). Now I am going to replace the 250GB SSD with ...
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what programmatic changes makes the usb drive write protected [duplicate]
suddenly 32 GB sandisk pen-drive has become write protected, i want to know what makes the pen drive write protected, so that it I can figure out what is the right solution to make it work again.
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External hard drive with read-only switch?
I am planning to get myself an external HDD. Is there any offering that you may be aware of with an option to open the contents in a default read-only mode (may be firmware based or physical switch), ...
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Tool or .reg for permanently disabling hibernate and sleep in Windows 10
I would like a way of disabling sleep and hibernate in Windows 10 so that the hibernate file (hiberfil.sys) is gone and that under no circumstances can Windows go into either mode? Going through menus ...
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How to mount Veracrypt volumes from disk image
I've got a broken disk which is encrypted with Veracrypt.
The problem is, the disk is encrypted in system encryption/preboot authentication mode. This seems to imply Veracrypt needs access to the ...
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Is a TPM module usable as a physical key between 2 identical computers?
If I have 2 identical machines, can I use the same physical TPM 2.0 module in either, if I transfer both the SSD and the TPM module at the same time?
My motherboard (Asus B150M-A) has a TPM header, ...
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Bitlocker Partition Shrinking Problems
I have a laptop, Dell XPS 13, with a bitlocker partition that I want to shrink. I tried the usual shenanigans, disabling the page file, disabling hibernation file etc.
This stackoverflow question ...
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How to use VeryCrypt to encrypt Ubuntu system on LVM using command line?
I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 server installed on LVM disk, and I need to encrypt that disk using any encrypting tool (I prefer VeraCrypt), and let the users enter the passwor pre-booting to encrypt the disk.
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Include dmsetup in initrd
I am trying to install Slackware on an encrypted partition by following these instructions. However, when I issue
mkinitrd -c -k 3.2.29-smp -m ext3 -f ext3 -r cryptroot -C /dev/sdx1
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Boot-loop, error code 0xc0000225, after full-drive encryption
I encrypted both my personal and system file drives using Diskcryptor, after full completion I set my laptop to hibernate. Now, my device is stuck in a bootloop with my only option being to use CMD as ...
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How to decrypt veracrypt on linux?
I have a laptop with an encrypted windows partition and want to decrypt it using veracrypt on a live linux. There seems to be no option, however, to decrypt the partition with the veracrypt gui in ...
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Power machine off after failed login attempts from physical access
I would like to know if there are any common techniques of powering your computer off after a number of failed login attempts from the machine locally (from the terminal login, or from lightdm for ...
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Full drive encryption with Bitlocker freezes at 99.9%
I have enabled Bitlocker for fully encrypting a partition/drive on my disk a few days ago (it took some hours to reach 99.9% completion). This partition only contains a few GB of data (which Windows ...
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How do I recover Windows EFS keys
Long before my hard drive crashed I backed it up using Acronis TrueImage 2010, a full partition backup of Windows 7 Professional 64bits.
Oddly enough, the C OS partition is the placed as the second ...
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Is it possible to partition VeraCrypt fully encrypted disk?
I have a full-disk encryption applied on an external drive. Here's what I did:
Make sure disk is empty and there are no partitions on drive.
Create Volume > Encrypt a non-system partition/drive. I ...
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Encrypting a full 8TB/10TB drive with VeraCrypt
So deciding to encrypt a full 8TB/10TB drive to test and see how it performs.
I estimate around +/- 2 days to encrypt 2TB, therefore 8TB drive will take around 8 days, can anyone confirm if they have ...
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How to decrypt McAfee EPo drive / partitions manually after broken boot loader?
Windows 8.1 laptop disk was encrypted with McAfee End Point Encryption (EPo) software.
Something was done with boot loader and boot of OS was coruppted (I don't know exactly), now data on C and D ...
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Full Disk Encryption, if my HDD isn't bootable?
I want to find out how to encrypt my HDD, if I plan to boot live operating systems and just use it as storage.
The operating systems in question will probably be some Debian-distro linux and Windows ...
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Windows 10 BitLocker on bootup presents just a blue screen but no password box or text.
I have a Windows 10 machine that used to work just fine. Now when you do a reboot the password box and text does not show. You can type the password and get enter and it will work.
What would cause ...
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Windows 10 can't boot after encryption
I used diskcryptor to encryption my C: drive, the process is done by using default encryption setting. However my Acer aspire v nitro laptop won't boot and stuck at the attempting repair screen. I ...
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Get files back on a WinMagic protected HP Laptop
I have a customer with an HP ProBook 430 G2. The device's hard drive has been encrypted by WinMagic / HP encryption software. The software seems to be part of the bootloader, and no part of the BIOS / ...
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How do I wipe an encrypted USB flash drive?
My company has issued an encrypted USB flash drive which I stored my personal data in it. I am resigning from the company and I wanted to wipe the data in the usb drive but I have forgotten the ...
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Customizing LVM disk encryption splash logon screen
I just installed Kubuntu, and turned on full disk encryption and LVM.
By default when booting up this machine I now get asked for my password twice.
The first time is a relatively ugly boot splash to ...