Using Truecrypt to Encrypt Your Entire Hard Drive

By Randy Jensen | Apr 29, 2008
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If you’re as paranoid as I am, you more than likely appreciate the advancements that the TrueCrypt team has made with version 5.0. For me, the greatest thing they did was making whole disk encryption dead simple. Here’s how you do it.

Getting Started

  1. First you will need to visit the TrueCrypt site and download and install it on your system. I’m going to be using Windows XP for my demonstration, but they have since released very good and stable version for Mac OSX and Linux.
  2. Next, go ahead and open the main window by clicking on the TrueCrypt logo in the system tray. The window should look like this
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Setting Up the Encryption Settings

  1. Click the the ‘Create Volume ‘ button
  2. On the next window, choose the radio button next to ‘Encrypt the system partition or entire system drive ‘truecrypt encrypt the system partition or entire drive

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