HOWTO: A Step by Step Guide to Whole Disk Encryption with TrueCrypt

The first in a series of screencasts; in this tip, I take you through the process of encrypting your laptop or desktop hard disk using the freeware tool TrueCrypt.

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Science & Technology

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• encryption
• screencast
• security
• tip
• truecrypt
• windows

[CraftSRB]

Hi!

What will happend if i encrypt a whole disk, and after thet i install some software. Whether that software also be encripted or not?

I think you will understand me...

[evansims360]

@CraftSRB Yep, all activity on the disk (including programs installed and documents created) after your initial encryption will also be encrypted.

[CraftSRB]

@evansims360 Nice! :) What to do if something goes wrong?

[evansims360]

@CraftSRB Just be sure to back up your important files first. I've never had an WDE go bad, but there is always that danger. Worse case your drive/partition would become corrupt and you would lose files.

[1812vendetta]

Secondly i'd like to ask does this remove your files on the pc after you encrypt whole pc ??

Cause i don't wanna redo everything ^^

[evansims360]

Nope, all your files remain exactly as they were.

[CraftSRB]

Thx! I do it... :)

[CraftSRB]

@evansims360 You are very speedly at commenting... I will try this now.

[nathantjjordan]

If you have a SSD make sure your Operating System supports TRIM (Windows 7 does this by default, and Ubuntu can be tweaked to do this) - otherwise you will send your hard drive to an early grave.

[lakhanikamil]

awesome awesome video mate.....superb job!

It was very easy to understand and was very informative as well

[DaRealNinja]

thanks, that was interesting to see!

[vlad1m1r]

Decrypting your entire hard drive after encrypting with Truecrypt would take a matter of seconds. V.