Encrypt the whole drive is greyed out

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Encrypt the whole drive is greyed out

Forum: Technical Topics

Creator: wigl301

Created: 2016-09-15

Updated: 2019-03-25

wigl301 - 2016-09-15

Hi Guys,

On going through the installation I noticed this was greyed out:

I wasn't fussed as I didn't want to choose this option anyway.

I continued and the next page:

This is also greyed out which is what I wanted to use.

Any suggestions please?

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wigl301 - 2016-09-15

My images don't seem to show up so attached to this message.

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Nanana - 2016-09-15

Are you running uefi and gpt?

Try legacy bios and mbr

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drowned - 2019-03-25

If you do that whole reversion thing (from GUID Partition Table to Master Boot Record) so full-disc 'Veracryption' has a chance of working, do you brick your PC when it overwrites your hidden Windows recovery sector? (recall that PCs no longer come with a recovery CD/DVD... Or a disc drive at all for that matter). What partition style is the recovery sector in by default? If that (supposedly?!) hidden recovery sector is not encrypted, will it continue to hemorrhage sensitive information via shellbags, hiberfiles, pagefiles, recoverable restore points etc etc etc... (Windows - God save us!)

Whatever. Veracrypt developers are super-cool dudes for even trying to tackle this nightmare!

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