Cant reload image saved onto an external encrypted HD

[liamcrane]

Think i have ran into a brick wall trying to restore my image i created. I created the image with macrium reflect, I saved the image to my encrypted external HD and when i load up the macrium rescue cd to load the image of course i cant open the encrypted HD can i!!

Is there any way round this would you know or will i have to simply save all my images to an un-encrypted HD?

many thanks

 

[RavenLunatic]

Images need to be saved to an unencrypted drive if imaged through windows. An other option would be to make a sector by sector image of the encrypted drive using a bootable CD/DVD disk imaging software. That way the image will be of an encrypted disk and can be stored safely on an unencrypted disk.

Thats assuming the disk you are imaging is also encrypted. Some imaging software has an option to encrypt/password protect which would allow you to save to an unencrypted disk.

 

[liamcrane]

Thanks for that mate, i am thinking of buying myself another external HD just to keep all my backup images of my desktop and laptop, i didnt realize that some external HD were so cheap!! There is a 1TB external HD for only £50 here, where as portable HDs of around 1TB are near on £100.

Anyway instead of encrypting which ever external drive i decide to get is there a way of password protecting my image folders instead? Im running windows 7 home premium so i dont have access to anything like bitlocker

Thanks so much again

 

[RavenLunatic]

Looking at the macrium reflect website it lists these as features of the software
# Password protect images to prevent unauthorized access.
# AES 256 bit encryption for ultimate security.
So you can save the image encrypted onto an unencrypted disk quite safely already.