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Truecrypt: Encrypt entire drive without having a CD/DVD drive

Truecrypt: Encrypt entire drive without having a CD/DVD drive

When I try to encrypt my laptop using TrueCrypt, it wants me to create a rescue disk and verify it. However, the laptop does not have a CD drive or a DVD drive, and I don't own something that can be connected to it. So, how do I proceed?

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Guest [Entry]

"If it's Windows, grab Microsoft's Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel. Run it as Administrator, install the driver, add a new virtual drive, and load TrueCrypt's rescue disc image on it. The .iso should be somewhere in %ProgramFiles%\TrueCrypt\

Edit: Virtual CloneDrive appears to support Windows 7 on x64.

This should be enough to trick TrueCrypt's disc check. Once it's done, don't forget to uninstall the Virtual CD driver.

To boot the rescue disc from a USB drive, you could try these:

Creating a multiple boot USB stick (includes instructions for TC Rescue Disc)"
Guest [Entry]

Windows 7 64 bit, I ran into the same problem - the command line switch (/n or /noisocheck) simply does not work with Truecrypt 6.3a. I tried the 64 bit and the 32 bit cmd.exe, both failed. The solution was to install the "Daemon Tools Lite" and to mount the rescue.iso once it was created. Truecrypt recognized the "rescue-CD" and continued. But even then after the necessary reboot the harddisk was not encrypted initially, because the automatically started TrueCrypt lacked administrator credentials. I had to end Truecrypt, restart as administrator, then to resume encryption (which will be finished in 7 hours..., I am waiting for the next problems...)
Guest [Entry]

"The answer is below.

Open CMD, Navigate to C:\program files\TrueCrypt and -->TAB<-- along to ""TrueCrypt Format.exe"" and type /noIsocheck

so it would look like this:

C:\program files\TrueCrypt>""TrueCrypt Format.exe"" /noisocheck"