Make a secret partition

[Niku]

So i have need of trucrypt these days. I have ripped most of my music and now i am going to canada... but i hear they can, at their discretion, just take devices that have "questionable digital content" on them. Bleh.

I can use truecrypt to do the encryption portion of a task, no problem. But is there a way to hide a partition after that? in or out of truecrypt in a way that makes a hard drive look smaller then it actually is? like, in disk management and my computer , invisible? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Billb2]

Paranoia strikes deep.

 

[lxskllr]

Look around Truecrypt's site. You can do what you want, and they have tutorials on best practice operations. Nothing is undiscoverable, but Truecrypt will get you through a customs check.

 

[blackangst1]

Why do you need a partition? Just make a large container and name it whatever you want. Including any extension you want.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

And yes, you can create hidden encrypted volumes within standard encrypted volumes. You can even create a hidden encrypted OS within the standard encrypted OS. When you create a volume, is asks if you want to create a standard or hidden container. And the use of it is simply a matter of entering the correct password: you have one password for the standard container, and another for the encrypted. There are some dangers for using hidden encrypted containers, as you can over-write them if TC isn't running and you don't have the option selected to protect it. But other than that, everything is fairly straight forward.