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07-30-2012, 01:21 PM
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Help installing Truecrypt on a dual-boot system
I have a netbook with Ubuntu and win7 on it and I want to install Truecrypt and encrypt the entire drive. I don't want the Truecrypt bootloader to overwrite Grub2, so I am curious if there were a way to boot TC off a USB card and then proceed to load Grub2 as usual.
Just to clarify, when I say "the entire drive", I'm referring to Both the Linux and Win7 partitions.
Thanks in advance
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07-30-2012, 02:35 PM
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Truecrypt does not support full drive encryption in Linux. Why not use LUKS?
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07-30-2012, 02:45 PM
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Will LUKS encrypt a Windows partition? I know that truecrypt is available for linux
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07-30-2012, 08:55 PM
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Will LUKS encrypt a Windows partition? I know that truecrypt is available for linux
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I do too, but if I were you, I'd backup my files, wipe my entire drive, then install truecrypt. Haven't done that though because I don't want to wipe my Linux installation.  |
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07-31-2012, 07:54 AM
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Ive decided to go another route here. I can't encrypt the entire windows installation because that is my honeypot for thieves (tracking software). But I do want to encrypt the entire Linux partition. I have no idea how LUKS or Truecrypt handles the Grub bootloader in this scenario. I assume that I would be working off Ubuntu and simply choose not to encrypt Win7, but as far as getting to grub and not messing it up, I'm not sure on the specifics.
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07-31-2012, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Banquo
Ive decided to go another route here. I can't encrypt the entire windows installation because that is my honeypot for thieves (tracking software). But I do want to encrypt the entire Linux partition. I have no idea how LUKS or Truecrypt handles the Grub bootloader in this scenario. I assume that I would be working off Ubuntu and simply choose not to encrypt Win7, but as far as getting to grub and not messing it up, I'm not sure on the specifics.
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Oh, I see what you want to do, my bad. |
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08-01-2012, 07:48 AM
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That's my fault. I had forgotten about the anti-theft program on windows.
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08-01-2012, 04:48 PM
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bump
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