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Pre-boot authentication is enforced and the always-on encryption is USB flash drive, including boot sectors, system, and swap files.
Is it searching for a signature, at the low-level, or is it searching at the file-level? It looks like it's combing through sectors, so I'm thinking it's looking for a particular signature to attempt to piece together the PGP instrumentation of the disk.PGP Desktop Professional includes PGP Whole Disk Encryption to lockĭown the entire contents of a laptop, desktop, external drive, or
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My question is where is the original MBR stored on the disk? Somewhere on the hidden track (read: track 0) or within one of the encrypted partitions? When you back up the MBR, I'm assuming it backs up the Master Partition Table and disk signature, in addition to the Master Boot Code (basically, all 512-bytes).Īlso, when running the PGP WDE -recover command, I see it searches throughout the disk. When the disk is instrumented, the original MBR is restored. ).īasically, Symantec uses up to the first 63 sectors (track 0) for their PGP MBR. I think I've finally got a decent technical understanding of how PGP interacts with the MBR, thanks to the link here (. but there is some important data on the drive so I haven't given up yet! Help! This started scanning each sector of the drive, but bombs out consistently at a particular sector with the below error. Great, I thought, now I'll try the -recover command line option. This is what I see (Disk 1 is the old HDD attached via USB): So I plugged the disk in to a machine running the same version (10.3.0) of PGP using a SATA-USB cable, and tried the command line. I tried the PGP recovery boot disk first, but this did not detect the drive.
I've spent a couple of days scouring the forums and found this post which mirrors my problem exactly. Booting the system then gave the message "missing operating system". Not thinking, I ran fixmbr which obviously blew away the WDE boot loader. Running the diagnostic tools in there indicated that the Master Boot Record of the laptop was to blame.
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A couple of days ago Windows stopped booting correctly, and immediately after entering my PGP password the machine booted into the Windows recovery environment. My company mandates the use of Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption, so my Windows 7 laptop is duly encrypted.
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* Can I install it after the disk is encrypted? * What if I install PGP WDE on the Windows 2012? Will it make any difference?
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* Is there any drivers that Windows 2012 needs to read the file system better? When the D-drive become encrypted, the Windows server 2012 VHD will be encrypted too. Unencrypted.Ĭurrently the C-drive is partly encrypted and Windows server 2012 can't read the filesystem anymore and lists the partition as RAW format. It may not be related to me fiddeling with the Windows 2012 evaluation VHD, but the correlation is strong.ġ laptop with a 500GB drive, split into 3 partitions:Ĭ: contains my provided Windows 7 and is currently 25% encrypted.ĭ: contains my Win2012.vhd file, which has been inserted in the Windows bootloader and can be selected on system start. the reason I just got my computer reinstalled, is that the C-drive became too corrupted to even start. I just paused the encryption process as I forsee some issues with reading the disk, as I tried this on an already encrypted disk earlier and had some bad crashes and load errors. It comes with PGP WDE 10.2.0 MP3, which is progressing nicely and encrypting everything.
I have my laptop, which has been provided for me at work.
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