A question re Truecrypt and Bitlocker

[ajf]

I am looking at hard disk encryption and want to know how these apps handle the following scenarios:

Hard disk is put into a new machine as the boot disk - does it still ask for encryption?
I am assuming yes.

What if the disk is put into a different machine as a secondary drive. Is it visible? Is it accessible with or without the encryption key?

TPM is not used.

Thanks
Andrew

 

[ajf]

Thankl you both for the replies.
I assumed this to be the case but wanted to be sure as the intention was to secure teh drive if it ever got stolen rather than just enryption for keeping files private on a daily basis.

Andrew