Digita1ninja Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Hey All, Happy New Year! I've searched through the site and couldn't find anything on this, so apologies if this has been posted and I missed it. I'm looking for recomendations on encrypting the HDD of a netbook. I currently have a Samsung n110 and have Truecrypt installed on my other laptops and running fine. My current problem with truecrypt is that I don't own an external CD drive and don't really want to invest in one for the sake of just burning the back up CD for the encryption. I've had a look at mounting the iso to a USB creating a virtual flash drive but that didn't seem to work very well. So i was wondering if people had any suggestions on either mounting the iso to a USB, or perhaps using a different encryption program that works without the need for the CD but a USB drive instead? Or should I just bite the bullet and purchase an external CD burner/reader? Any help would be appreciated, I've hunted around on google but not really found anything solid. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 The TrueCrypt setup process does allow you to create a disk image instead of burning straight to disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 What OS are your running? Does it have a TPM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digita1ninja Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 What OS are your running? Does it have a TPM? Windows XP, if i was more comfortable with linux I'd make the switch but I'm still learning so not ready for full swap just yet. @Sparda It let me do that, create a sperate file on the desktop but wouldnt finalise set-up without being able to verify against the burnt disc. Or have i got the wrong end of the stick and not selected the right install option at the start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 What OS are your running? Does it have a TPM? I haven't seen any netbooks with a tpm chip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digita1ninja Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 I haven't seen any netbooks with a tpm chip. Might be useful though :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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