Criostoir Von Stoker - 2019-01-03

.. I apologize in advance if this question is a duplicate, but after reading the FAQs, Google'ing, and reading here, its not clear to me if this installation type I'll describe is valid or doable (even if it requires non-standard steps, that's fine for me).

First, my laptop is recent, and not UEFI, what I'm looking to do is:

  • Use Veracrypt to perform FDE on two physical drives in the system, where:
  • One partition on the first (boot) drive is Windows 10 Pro.
  • The second partition on the first drive is an Ubuntu 18.04 installation.
  • Both installations or just the Linux installation would use drive space on the second drive for data. I want this encrypted with Veracrypt as well, decrypted by the same initial boot prompt without having to mount it seperately in Linux (meaning, the Ubuntu system can boot with that, and perhaps is ignorant of the Veracrypt disk its using)

The end goal state is to be able to boot to a Veracrypt password prompt / or use the USB key data method and optionally, be able to use the "hidden" option. My requirement would be satisfied if I can can Windows 10 Pro & the Ubuntu 18.04 installation on the first disk encrypted by Veracrypt, booting up to a single Veracrypt-drive prompt or input for the password, where Linux would require no additional encryption (unless desired).

Right now, I'm using LUKS in a variation of the official ManualEncryptionOption FAQ. It works, but still a bit cumbersome, I was looking for this way to "covert" to Veracrypt and get it all under one FDE roof, so to speak.

Thanks in advance for replies, directions to other FAQs,, etc., and your time.