sir_thias Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Gentlemen, I just got myself a brandnew MBP and moved to the following three partition setup right away: Partition 1: 50 GB HFS (OSX) Partition 2: 100 GB FAT32 (shared data) Partition 3: 50 GB NTFS (WinXP) Dual Booting using the standard boot process works like a charm. However, I really would like to use Truecrypt for encrypting Partition 2 and 3 since I will have quite a bit of important company data on these partitions. When I try to encrypt the system drive under XP Truecrypt complains that it needs a 32 KB empty space at the head of the disk for being able to install its boot loader. Now my question: Will rEFIt be the solution for enabling booting a truecrypted XP partition on an MBP? I haven't tried it yet but will do so shortly. I would just like to get any opinion / ideas / hints / potential problems / "why it will never work" explanations / etc. that might be floating around in your heads before I start wasting a lot of time on this. Thanks for any input on this! Cheers from the Black Forest, Mathias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sevan Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 I do believe that there isn't support for Encrypted Partitions yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxo44 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Now my question:Will rEFIt be the solution for enabling booting a truecrypted XP partition on an MBP? I haven't tried it yet but will do so shortly. I would just like to get any opinion / ideas / hints / potential problems / "why it will never work" explanations / etc. that might be floating around in your heads before I start wasting a lot of time on this. Thanks for any input on this! Cheers from the Black Forest, Mathias Hi Mathias, I have exactly the same question. I also want to boot a truecrypt encrypted partition. Could you report on how it worked out? You didn't get an answer at that time but maybe you could help me and every next person experiencing the same problem out? It would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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