PGP Whole Disk Encryption

jevenson:

I need to understand this post clearly. Just so you and I are on the same page, I am going to make some assumptions. You plan to install PGP Whole Disk Encryption on your OSx side. I suspect that you want it to cover your boot camp partition upon which Windows XP resides.

PGP does not support Boot camp.

I am assuming that by this you meant that should you install PGP on the OSx side then it would not cover the Windows side on a boot camp setup.

Is there a way for me to take my install of Windows XP and transfer that to parrells? In other words take the entire partition and copy it into the Virtual Machine on Parrells or Fusion?

No, at present, I do not know of any way to actually move Windows from a boot camp partition to reside on the OSx partition and run as a virtual machine under parallels or fusion without performing a complete installation under parallels/fusion.

Now, having said that, there is another option for you. Parallels and Fusion both can use the boot camp partition with Windows as a virtual machine BUT without moving windows on the OSx partition. It will run WIndows as a virtual machine directly from the BC partition. So, you will be able to run OSx and Windows at the same time. What I am not sure is that if you have PGP installed on the OSx side and since parallels/fusion runs from the OSx side then will it encrypt the boot camp/windows when run under it?

Axel F.

Jeff:

No. Windows XP does not have a built-in backup from restore feature.

Axel F.

Just some clarification;

PGP WDE will not encrypt disks if that disk has Boot Camp partition on it.
Specifically - you can not encrypt the NON Boot camp partition.

XP Does have a restore from backup utility. It is under Administratve Tools, and is called backup.exe. Be sure you backup "System State" or you will not get
the whole system back.

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