Two HDDs of 500 GB each, dual boot and TrueCrypt. How better to be?

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newpavlov2012-07-07 19:37:21

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newpavlov, 2012-07-07 19:37:21

Accordingly, there is a desire to keep both disks fully encrypted. At the same time, I would like that after a single password entry during boot, it would be possible to immediately work with both disks from Linux and Windows. Is it possible to implement this?

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oia, 2012-07-07
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no, that's not possible. since when encrypting, it encrypts only one screw and all partitions on it

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mariofag, 2012-07-07
@mariofag

I'm afraid that exactly what you want is still unattainable, but I will give two links that may help to do at least something good:
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_Encryption - everything is very detailed here ( you might be interested in LVM), but like Linux-only
diskcryptor.net/wiki/Main_Page is an alternative to TrueCrypt. if I remember correctly, it has much more extensive boot-time functionality.

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holyorb2, 2012-07-07
@holyorb2

In Windows, you can mount all favorites at once if the password is the same. Right now I have 2 partitions being mounted, which are on two different hard drives and with one password.
On Linux, I think you can get by with a script that will start 2 disks and substitute one password (although I'm not sure).
The problem here is different. Windows can archive the system disk and asks for a password after loading the BIOS, but before loading Windows, it turns out that entering the password for the second partition will be after loading Windows.
In Linux, the system disk cannot be archived (I read about dancing with a tambourine for this, but I have not tried it myself). In any case, again, the password must be entered 1 time to decrypt the system disk, and the second time for the second disk after the system boots. It is also not clear how you will get access to partitions formatted for Linux in Windows.
I would recommend making several partitions:
1. Windows system
2. Linux system
3. Data (one or more partitions)
From this, encrypt only point 3 and format it in NTFS, then you can mount several partitions with one password and have access both in Windows and and in Linux.