Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote:

> Sebastian G. wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> It "can", but that's a destructive process and there's absolutely no
> way to bootstrap any operating system that you might install after the
> fact.
>
> You guys aren't thinking this through.


Maybe you're just stupid. Why do you narrow your views to one drive? You can
have two or more. One contains the operating system, does the pre-boot stuff
and has an identifyable partition table. The second drive is meant to store
data, and is fully encrypted, including the partition table.