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Encryption Problem... Please help :(
Hi everyone..
A few weeks ago I installed truecrypt to keep some of my files safe. I set aside a partition or volume 7gb total. Today I installed Vista Ultimate and figured It would get deleted. It didn't. My C drive is still reading 73GB even though it should be 80. I installed truecrypt again to see if I could see it on there and couldn't find the partition any were... is there anything I can do to get that space back? Any programs? Thanks a lot
Mike
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Re: Encryption Problem... Please help :(
The catch-all way would be to format your entire hard drive, and reinstall your OS of choice.
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Re: Encryption Problem... Please help :(
Or one of the partition programs from Acronis or Norton should allow you to recover the space non-destructively.
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Re: Encryption Problem... Please help :(
The catch-all way would be to format your entire hard drive, and reinstall your OS of choice.
Yeah that's what I figured... how would I format it?
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Re: Encryption Problem... Please help :(
Yeah that's what I figured... how would I format it?
Pop in the Vista disk, and when you get to the screen asking for the drive you wish to install to, select the drive - the entire hard drive, not just a partition - and tell it to format it. Once done, you should have all 80 available to install on.
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When you mention a round # like 80GB it concerns me, what is your HDD?
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Re: Encryption Problem... Please help :(
Pop in the Vista disk, and when you get to the screen asking for the drive you wish to install to, select the drive - the entire hard drive, not just a partition - and tell it to format it. Once done, you should have all 80 available to install on.
Well wen I installed it, it just gave me the option of C drive... the partition with all my encrypted stuff is on M, but doesn't show
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When you mention a round # like 80GB it concerns me, what is your HDD?
80gb. It was standard on inspirons last year...
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Re: Encryption Problem... Please help :(
80gb. It was standard on inspirons last year...
That's what I'm getting at, my HDD is 160GB when they sell it. Based on base 10, computers are based on base 2 so Windows and infact the correct capacity is 148.82GB not far off from your 73GB, 74.41GB for your 80GB not enough to hide 7GB but not the correct #. So what's up? I'm not sure but would like to know!
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Re: Encryption Problem... Please help :(
That's what I'm getting at, my HDD is 160GB when they sell it. Based on base 10, computers are based on base 2 so Windows and infact the correct capacity is 148.82GB not far off from your 73GB, 74.41GB for your 80GB not enough to hide 7GB but not the correct #. So what's up? I'm not sure but would like to know!
It has never been 73GB on XP or other versions of Vista Ive tried... this is Ultimate though. Wouldn't it still show as C's capacity as 79 or 80gb tho?