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re: Secure startup
Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 4:40 pm
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Posted by john doe (1 messages posted)


Secure Startup is optional and can be turned on and off at user's will. When off, the secured partition becomes a regular NTFS volume fully accessible from any NTFS-compatible OS.


On Saturday, August 6, 2005 at 9:56 am, rfoo wrote:
>I've two questions on Secure startup that is explained here:
>http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/pcdesign/secure-start_exec.mspx
>
>1. Is the key to the encrypted disk available only to the operating system that set
>it up? What if I have two OSes on my system and want to share a partition with the
>other operating system.
>
>2. How about the case where I want to move the harddisk to another computer and want
>to use it just for space and not for installing OS? if the key resides on the motherboard,
>how will it work with upgrade or replacement of the motherboard?
>
>If anyone understands Secure startup and has answers to these questions, I would
>appreciate knowing them. Thanks!


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Secure startup (rfoo: Saturday, August 6, 2005 at 9:56 am)

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