trying linux mint rather than windows10

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Linux Mint 17.2 MATE DVD - 32 or 64 Bit - Only $4.00 + FREE USA SHIPPING
Do you load it and run the D drive?
 
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rexlunae said:
I doubt that it's encrypting/decrypting the disk on boot. That would be extremely slow (perhaps taking hours to boot) and not very secure. It's not impossible, but it's not something that makes a lot of sense to me.



Well, the BIOS itself is independent of any disk encryption. It's likely that it is involved in providing access to the encrypted volume for boot purposes.



I guess there is a way to do encryption using TPM which doesn't require a password, and instead stores the keys on a chip on the motherboard. I haven't messed with TPM, and generally (despite the name) don't trust it.

This is for Windows 7, but it should be partially applicable to some of XP:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/learn-more-about-bitlocker-drive-encryption
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Thank you. The system on my machine is this one. A lot of the language on the web site is mysterious to me but it might mean more to you. Would I be able to run a different operating system side by side with this?
 
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Ktoyou said:
Linux Mint 17.2 MATE DVD - 32 or 64 Bit - Only $4.00 + FREE USA SHIPPING
Do you load it and run the D drive?
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Since you have already decided that Vista is going to be worthless for you, I would back up any files you want on that machine then let it reformat your hard drive and start fresh. Mint will probably run better on that machine than Vista did when it was new.
 
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Since you have already decided that Vista is going to be worthless for you, I would back up any files you want on that machine then let it reformat your hard drive and start fresh. Mint will probably run better on that machine than Vista did when it was new.
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All the data on it was wiped out when the computer man tried to fix it and load Windows 7. Does the disk reformat the hard drive? I am not astute when it comes to computers.
 
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Ktoyou said:
All the data on it was wiped out when the computer man tried to fix it and load Windows 7. Does the disk reformat the hard drive? I am not astute when it comes to computers.
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It will both partition (divide the disk up) and format the partitions.
 
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Thank you. The system on my machine is this one. A lot of the language on the web site is mysterious to me but it might mean more to you. Would I be able to run a different operating system side by side with this?
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Well, that's a proprietary system. I can't say I'm familiar with it. I would anticipate that it's something that you can just wipe away by repartitioning and reformatting the hard drive, but I can't say that for sure. I'm a little surprised the thing boots at all if it's doing full-disk encryption relying on some sort of corporate key server. I don't think dual-booting is going to be easy if it really is an encrypted volume. You'll need to shrink your Windows partition, or reinstall it with less space, and I'd bet that the number of tools that can read that partition are few and far between.
 
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Well, that's a proprietary system. I can't say I'm familiar with it. I would anticipate that it's something that you can just wipe away by repartitioning and reformatting the hard drive, but I can't say that for sure. I'm a little surprised the thing boots at all if it's doing full-disk encryption relying on some sort of corporate key server. I don't think dual-booting is going to be easy if it really is an encrypted volume. You'll need to shrink your Windows partition, or reinstall it with less space, and I'd bet that the number of tools that can read that partition are few and far between.
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Would throwing in a different hard drive do the trick? Decent sized hard drives are pretty cheap these days.
 
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Would throwing in a different hard drive do the trick? Decent sized hard drives are pretty cheap these days.
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I don't think that would really give him the ability to bypass anything that he couldn't bypass without reformatting, although it would let him experiment without losing the existing OS. But, if it's old enough to be running Windows XP, it's also likely that it won't have SATA, so newer hard drives might not work in it.
 
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