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tonyisnt

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Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 158

Encrypting an external hard drive for dual boot use

I'm soon to be reformatting my entire hard drive and starting from scratch—for the first time since 2007.  I have a 250GB external that used to be an internal drive (for backups—and it's simply an IDE drive in an enclosure), and when I switched it I never bothered to format it, so it's been in ext3 the whole time.  With Windows there are ext drivers, and I've had a lot of success with one, so that's how I've been accessing the drive from XP.  The annoying thing about this is that when I bring the external HD to a friend's house or something I've first had to install the ext driver.

I'm thinking about formatting the external HD in NTFS, but I would also like to encrypt the drive.  I've only encrypted hard drives once before, on my laptop.  What would be the best way of doing this/is it even possible to have the drive encrypted while still having access to it in both Windows XP and Linux?

Last edited by tonyisnt (2010-06-11 18:49:37)

tonyisnt

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Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 158

Re: Encrypting an external hard drive for dual boot use

Bump.

jocheem67

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Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 244

Re: Encrypting an external hard drive for dual boot use

I guess truecrypt would be the answer. Requires however that truecrypt has to be installed on the boxes that you wanna access your drive on.

It's imho the best way of fooling everybody....it's even customs-proof when using it with a hidden volume.