nemo_outis wrote:


>>> 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

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>> 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.


I underlined you something. Full disk encryption doesn't necessarily imply
that the encrypted volume is a boot/system volume.