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True Encrypt installed successfully but blank screen presented

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zillah2004

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Dear Experts

twice on my laptop ASUS corei5 I tried to encrypted the whole hd using TE 7.1a after I formatted and reinstalled an OS (Windows7).

All this was done and working (restarting, etc.) perfectly before I started the encryption.

I had run through the steps posted in many websites, and yes, I made it through as per the attached snapshot

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When I restarted the laptop for testing purpose TE asked me for the passphrase yes I do remember it, after typed it in blank screen presented (no windows OS)

What could be the culprit ?

Regards
 
By default there is no blank screen on boot to type in the password. It will say something about Truecrypt bootloader and when you type your password it will show white asterisks. In TC you can change the bootloader to have a message and no asterisks will show up when you type your password.

Oh wait. You GET a blank screen after typing the password. Hmmm. Try the recovery disk and boot from it to repair the bootloader.

What website did you use for instructions?
 
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Thanks John

By default there is no blank screen on boot to type in the password. It will say something about Truecrypt bootloader and when you type your password it will show white asterisks. In TC you can change the bootloader to have a message and no asterisks will show up when you type your password
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Sorry I should have said that after typing the passphrase that blank screen appears


Oh wait. You GET a blank screen after typing the password. Hmmm. Try the recovery disk and boot from it to repair the bootloader.
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Yes that is right.

What website did you use for instructions?
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http://www.winhelp.us/truecrypt-system-drive-encryption.html

http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/using-truecrypt-to-encrypt-your-entire-hard-drive


Try the recovery disk and boot from it to repair the bootloader.
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My laptop doesn't boot from the DVD recovery disk I don't know why ,,,is that because i am using portable CD rom (USB connection)

twice on
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I had the same issue twice means tow times I formatted the laptop installed windows and TC and same blank screen happened

Regards
 
I don't understand. TC can't progress with encryption unless you burn the recovery disk. If it did burn the disk go into BIOS and set to boot from USB. Try booting the recovery disk.

All the instructions on the website are good. You didn't encrypt the host system, did you?
 
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Sorry John I burnt the recovery disk successfully and twice for each installation and I tried to use it to boot my laptop but it didn't boot
 
The first time don't remember , but second time windows was installing updates,,,but I didn't restart or shut down the laptop
 
Hi John
Tried twice installed fresh copy of windows 7 64 bit on the laptop and installed TE.
Still getting a blank screen after typing the password.
I tried the same steps with the same pass phrase on a different laptop it worked without any problem.
Any other suggestion I need to consider ?
Thanks
 
Are you deleting the partition and then formatting with the Windows disk? You are not installing anything? No programs, service packs and updates?
 
I can't find any info. on the Asus U318. You should just have one partition. I have read that others were having a blank screen problem in Thinkpads I think it was. Where did you download TC

UEFI does need to be disabled, but it sounds like it is. TC doesn't support UEFI.
 
I'm out of ideas short of the BIOS. I would first laser focus on the BIOS and see if there is something enabled that could prevet TC from booting up. I would disable the C1E Halt State if your BIOS has it. If all else fails see if there is a BIOS update to the computer. And then try to encrypt.
 
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