Restoring an image on an encrypted drive?

[liamcrane]

Evening,

I am in the process of encrypting my laptop at the mo, before i did it i created an image of the disk un-encrypted, would i be able to re-image my laptop with this un-encrypted image once the HD in my laptop has been encrypted or would it not work?

cheers

Also why does windows image utility not let you save to a mounted truecrypt file container!! so annoying, i encrypted my whole external HD hoping to be able to save the image straight to the file container . Macrium reflect allows you to save it this way DAM WINDOWS!

 

[liamcrane]

Cheers for that i was just worried about encrypting the disk and if something was to get corrupt so to speak and the un-encrypted image not be able to load properly.

Thanks for putting my mind at ease though. Just 1 more quick thing what would you say is a better image option out of the windows 7 utility and macrium reflect? The reason i ask is i created an image to the un-encrypted part of my external HD with the windows utility and when i go to transfer to the encrypted part its taking around 3 hrs! Where as Macrium reflect lets me save the image straight to the encrypted virtual partition and saves a lot of time.

What do you think?