Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in
news:8bfad53b8d4b69cd8d27311d874867f6@dizum.com:

> nemo_outis wrote:
>> The entire disk IS encrypted, with the exception of the boot stub on
>> track 0.

> Tell you what, why don't you go right ahead and shrink your main
> bootable partition on your first hard drive and create another
> partition on that drive (if you don't have one there already) and then
> use Truecrypt to encrypt that entire drive as a single device so the
> entire disk IS encrypted. Let us know how that works out for you.
>
> Hope you have backups. ;)

You really are a whining caviller. However, lest others be misled, I will
explain why I am 100% correct.

You see, the space on a HD, as conventionally set up, consists entirely of
the following: the boot track and one or more partitions. (This excludes
the rare cases where there is unallocated unpartitioned space on the drive,
and arcana such as the HPA and manufacturer's reserved space).

So, if you encrypt all partitions on such a drive (as Truecrypt v5 now
allows you to do, even if it is the boot/system drive) you have encrypted
the **whole drive** - with the exception, of course, of the small
unencrypted bootstub info on track 0 - just as with ALL other whole-disk HD
OTFE encryption programs.

Just as I said.

Regards,