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How to dual boot win10 with full disk encryption?
This details the set-up I performed to dual boot windows and Linux with full disk encryption (LUKS encrypted root/home/swap, though not boot – Evil Maids don’t scare me!)
Can you use TrueCrypt on a dual boot system?
The Vera/Truecrypt system volume encryption wizard (under Windows, it isn’t available under Linux) claims not to support system volume encryption on systems with more than one bootloader Vera/Truecrypt are the potential solutions I’ve found, but if there are better ones I am happy to learn
How to set up full disk encryption in Linux?
If you use luksipc, then setting up encryption on Linux, you’ll need to run sudo update-grub and sudo update-initramfs, otherwise your system won’t boot. Have a rescue disk handy because it’s easy to make a mistake and end up with an unbootable system.
Can you dual boot Linux with Windows 7?
You have a computer with a single drive with Windows 7 on it. You want to dual-boot Linux, specifically Arch Linux. You want full-disk encryption. How do you do it? You won’t quite get full-disk encryption following this, but you can get close. Boot partitions will remain unencrypted. It’s assumed that this is your initial setup:
Are there any encryption options in Arch Linux?
Arch Linux has documentation about how to do this ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption ); it mentions that some options are loop-AES and dm-crypt. I can’t comment on the Windows part of your question, but I assume you will find a similar plethora of options.
Why do I need to install Arch Linux?
I am planning to install Arch Linux and Windows 10, because sometimes at university you get software you have to use which can only be executed with Windows. Since it is a mobile device, I want to encrypt the drive or at least the Arch partitions.
What’s the best way to setup a dual boot system?
The recommended way to setup a Linux/Windows dual booting system is to first install Windows, only using part of the disk for its partitions. When you have finished the Windows setup, boot into the Linux install environment where you can create and resize partitions for Linux while leaving the existing Windows partitions untouched.