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Drive Encryption and Secure Data Wiping
Okay,
A new set of questions!
I have a 240GB SSD with Win 10 Pro, Ver. 2004, Build 19041.329 - running as sweet as a nut.
First questions.
I plan to dual-boot Linux Mint Mate 19.3 alongside the Windows installation in a separate partition (offered as part of the Linux installation as I understand it).
1) For security, the System Disk should be encrypted?
2) If so, will Linux be upset if the disk is encrypted before Linux is installed?
3) If Linux would prefer the disk to be unencrypted before installation, what effect would encrypting the drive have on the Linuz installation - or would encrypting the drive from within Windows 10 merely encrypt the Windows partition leaving the Linux partition alone?
4) For thos that have experience of dual booting Windows and Linux, are the two partitions (the Windows and the Linux partitions) treated as being completely separate and you can have one encrypted (eg Win) and the other not, the other way round (Linux encrypted) and Windows not, or both encrypted??
As part of this system upgrade (switching to Win 10 Pro from Win 7 HP and moving to SSD for the boot disk), I am re-purposing the old 5TB Toshiba X300 hard disk as a data disk.
This disk was previously acting as both the Win 7 System Disk and the Data Disk - so contains old data.
5) Can you recommend a (free) secure wipe program - FileShredder or Eraser perhaps?
6) Can I apply drive encryption to just the 5TB data drive and not the 240GB SSD System Disk? How do you go about encrypting the data disk (once sanitised?)
7) If I can, is this best done (encrypting the data drive that is) as part of a formatting process or can this be activated once the drive has started to be populated with files and folders (or doesn't it matter?)
Thanks in advance folks!
Art
Win 10 Pro, Ver. 2004, Build 19041.329