[BBLISA] Looking for FDE single system windows 8

[John P. Rouillard]

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"Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4)" writes:
>> From: bblisa [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of John
>> Orthoefer
>> 
>> SW FDE, no end of issues. multiple days of lost time while we plug the disk
>> into another box, and run the "Decrypter" Live Disk. then re-encrypt.  It's
>> really amazing, it seems to the "Only" fix they have for a lot of
>> problems. Decrypt it stand-alone, uninstall, re-install and re-encrypt. For
>> any modern disk this is like 24-36 hours.
>
>Wow.  I don't know how you could run into such troubles.  I've used an
>awful lot of Truecrypt (several systems), [...] without any problems on
>any one of them, over the last several years.
>
>I've never once had to decrypt and re-encrypt a system.  If I had,
>I would have expected about 5 hours, as it takes 2-3 hours to
>encrypt the whole drive (depending on the size of the drive).

My experience with truecrypt is the same. I have had a system running
windows truecrypt die, moved it to a new machine and it booted fine
(modulo some missing drivers needed for the new laptop). I also have
shared external data drives crypted via truecrypt between windows and
linux with no issues.

If truecrypt was still being supported and I didn't have other
regulations for my friend to worry about, I would have gone with
truecrypt.

The work involved in replacing the disk is an issue with this
particular application. I would need to clone the drive and I have had
issues trying to get a cloned windows 7 drive to boot windows, and in
his case it's windows 8.

Does anybody know how well windows 8 pro is going to run on a netbook
style system? I have a windows 7 starter or home edition (I forget
which) which works well enough with truecrypt. I am worried that the
netbook will not have enough power to run the windows 8 pro
edition. Also of concern is the bios support on this netbook for TPM
and ATA passwords which are required IIUC for bitlocker and encrypted
hard drives.

Anybody have any words of wisdom on finding out if the netbook will
work with the upgraded os/bitlocker? Is there a "ready for windows 8
pro" test program anywhere on the ms site? I would hate to upgrade to
8.1 pro for $100 and find out bitlocker won't work.

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John Rouillard
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