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    Have 2 drives/OS -- want only 1 to boot up automatically?

    mfenn, thank you for the clarification! Yeah, I was also thinking about the POST screen. So I guess I'll just have to enable the full screen logo to hide all the drive info.
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    Have 2 drives/OS -- want only 1 to boot up automatically?

    Oh, I see. :D Thanks for the info with the screen shots!
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    Have 2 drives/OS -- want only 1 to boot up automatically?

    Was I being that obvious? LOL. Let's just say it's a drive I wouldn't want my GF to find out about on one of her visits. ;) Don't have a keylogger installed on it though. I was actually referring to the screen that briefly comes up as the computer's starting. Not sure if this is considered...
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    Have 2 drives/OS -- want only 1 to boot up automatically?

    SKORPI0, thanks for the follow-up and the screen shots. Here's another question: when you boot-up, do the start-up screens (briefly) list all the hard drives you have connected? Mine currently does this (XP) and I'd like to hide this information as well. (Yes, I'm trying to be very covert...
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    Have 2 drives/OS -- want only 1 to boot up automatically?

    corkyg, thanks for your reply. Sorry I'm not familiar with "a mobile rack with an on/off KEY". Are you referring to an external hard drive enclosure with an on/off button? I'd like to avoid showing a box outside of the main computer.
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    Have 2 drives/OS -- want only 1 to boot up automatically?

    Cool, so I'll just boot the other drive manually from there. Thanks for confirming! Now how do I configure so that only 1 drive is detected and booted up (while both are connected)? Thanks for the info!
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    Have 2 drives/OS -- want only 1 to boot up automatically?

    Here's my question: I want to have 2 separate hard drives (probably both to have Windows 7). I want only one of them (call it Drive 1) to be detected and boot up automatically by default (i.e. I don't want to see a dual boot option to come up at the start.) Then to access Drive 2 -- can I just...
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    Taking LOOONG time to encrypt 1TB. Overheating?

    Mine's a brand new Seagate. Thanks for the heads-up about not trying to transfer 200GB of data at once. If it has a 32MB cache, how much data can I safely move at a time?
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    Taking LOOONG time to encrypt 1TB. Overheating?

    Auric, that's what it was -- when I had been researching WDE a while back, TC didn't offer this feature, so I crossed it off my list... Thanks for confirming that TC does have a pause feature. I may try it out once their WDE becomes more stable. Thanks.
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    Taking LOOONG time to encrypt 1TB. Overheating?

    Thanks for the reassurance, Roguestar. It's been 24 straight hours of encrypting, and no smell of smoke yet ;) I think that next time I'll open the case up first so that I can let more air in. Do you know how long a hard drive can handle continuous processing without any adverse effects?
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    Taking LOOONG time to encrypt 1TB. Overheating?

    Auric -- my initial decision was between PGP and DriveCrypt, and DriveCrypt seemed to have better features. I had heard about TrueCrypt, but, at the time, I had the impression that a pay software would be more "secure" than free open source. (I also wasn't sure if TrueCrypt offered whole disk...
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    Taking LOOONG time to encrypt 1TB. Overheating?

    Auric, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, no pause button -- just Cancel (I'm using DriveCrypt, by the way.) It's a brand new drive with no data on it, so I'm not worried about any loss at this point.
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    Taking LOOONG time to encrypt 1TB. Overheating?

    bsobel, thanks for your reply. I had thought about partitioning the drive first, but wanted to keep all my files listed together. And I really didn't think that the encryption process would take so long.... So how many hours straight can a hard drive be engaged before I should worry about...
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    Taking LOOONG time to encrypt 1TB. Overheating?

    Hey, all -- I'm encrypting a 1TB drive, and at the rate it's currently going, it'll take a total of about 48 hours to complete. I'm just worried that either the hard drive will burn up, or worse yet, my entire computer will be in flames when I get home. Am I just being paranoid about this...