encrypting c:

worthingsaxovtr · 7 Oct 2011 at 11:32

Hi guys

What is the best software out there to encrypt my entire c: drive please.

Dont have any partitions on there etc.

Been looking at truecrypt and it seems a bit confusing.

Need it to ask for password on boot before Windows and when my machine locks itself to ask for password from there as well.

Cheers

darael · 7 Oct 2011 at 11:54

Truecrypt will do that, and it's fairly easy to do - I suggest trying it on either a spare or virtual machine if you're unsure.

theheyes · 7 Oct 2011 at 16:34

Truecrypt holds your hand through the entire process and has help links everywhere. Just leave the encryption settings as default. If you haven't run it, I encourage you to do so because I honestly don't know how they could make it any easier - it's one of Truecrypt's strong points in my opinion.

Makhaira · 7 Oct 2011 at 18:08

+1 for Truecrypt. You want to encrypt the entire drive and it will ask for a password before moving onto your OS.

worthingsaxovtr · 8 Oct 2011 at 20:01

what about the recovery disk worth doing this ? or do people not bother ?

cheers