Restoring an image on an encrypted drive?

liamcrane

liamcrane

liamcrane

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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!
 
If you restore the image, then it will destroy the encrypted data and restore the unencrypted data if that's what you mean? i.e it will return to the state it was in before you applied the encryption. So it would work, but break/remove the crypto and be pointless.
 
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?
 
I would go with Macrium. Far more flexible and, I think, a little more intuitive. I use it on all my machines.

You can also encrypt the image file itself, if you wanted to be doubly-anally retentive about it all! :p
 
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