RewtGuy said:Why would you encrypt an entire hard drive that you access data from CONSTANTLY, do you want to have to decrypt everytime you play battlefield 2? or everytime you open up a mp3 or a movie? Not to mention how would your computer boot an encrypted version of windows? without extra software this isn't possible.
unreasonable solution
Don't be so sure.
All you have to do is encrypt your sensitive data. Heres free & open source software you can use to encrypt whole hard drives (if you wish):
http://www.truecrypt.org/
For instance, you could store your sensitive data on a separate partition or hard drive and just encrypt that. There is no reason to encrypt windows itself.
RewtGuy said:yeah, that's what my point was.
it's not the best idea to encrypt an entire harddrive just to protect a password.
No not to protect a password, to protect data. That was MY point.