Full system disk encryption

[Guest]

Hey

 

I like to encrypt my HDD including my system drive.

 

Used to work like a charm on my old win7 computer but with my new computer running win 8 I can't get it to work.

 

I tried Truecrypt (Yes, may have som vulnerabilities etc) and Veracrypt and others.

 

When I try to click "Encrypt system drive" it says

 

"Your system drive has a GUID partition table (GPT). Currently, Only drives with a MBR partition table are supported".

 

I have no idea what this means

 

Anyone know how to get "pass" this or a program that could do this?

 

many thanks!

 

[SlyFox 10]

If you want to use full system encryption with true crypt or vera you need to use BIOS instead of UEFI and MBR instead of GPT. Now you can convert it and keep your existing windows installation without re-installing windows from scratch there are plenty of guides to search for.

 

One tip, if your system drive you encrypt is an SSD I would highly recommend https://diskcryptor.net as there are no speed slowdowns. True crypt and Vera cripple SSD speed on a system encryption. If its a normal hard drive use whichever.

[Guest]

"Encrypted likes this" lol

 

Thanks, ended up going for "PGP" after a lot of hassle 

 

Will try your method next time

[j0pad0pa 5]

@SlyFox, I'd be nervous using Diskcryptor.  Truecrypt may be dead, but at least it has been vetted and audited.

 

See: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/04/truecrypt-report.html

and, http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

 

I went so far as to purchase a Windows 7 OEM license from G2A.com, and downgraded from 8.1 (especially after all of the telemetry and privacy violations they were pushing on 8.1 users).  Would never go to Windows 10 for privacy reasons.  Google "Windows 10 TOS EULA privacy."

[j0pad0pa 5]

^^^ ADDITION TO ABOVE POST ^^^

 

And, if it wasn't obvious, once I downgraded to Windows 7, I had BIOS back, and Truecrypt Full Disk Encryption worked like a charm.