"Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in
news:610sj2F1qodjmU2@mid.dfncis.de:

> nemo_outis wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
>
>
> If you're not using the pre-boot stuff, then TrueCrypt can encrypt the
> entire volume including the MBR with its partition table.

There must - necessarily! - be a small amount of unencrypted code on the
boot/system volume. This is invariably located on track 0.

Regards,