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