Casper wrote:

> > No, it's not. With a two partition setup and both encrypted you can
> > still see partition information booting from a LiveCD
> >
> > It's NOT whole disk encryption. It was never advertised as such.
>
> Thank you for the info, I am glad you understand the difference between
> asking for a password on boot up and having the whole thing encrypted,
> too many people confuse these terms.

Actually, in this case the two things are the same if you're talking
about being able to access your boot partition. That's what the
pre-boot authentication does... set up OTFE access for that drive. It
absolutely *is* encrypted, and looks like random data to anyone with a
LiveCD or whatever.