Disk Encryption and decryption

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Hello,
This is my first question in this forum. and i want to know how to encrypt a hard disk using vb.net code.
Is this possible sir ?

Posted 31-Mar-11 2:52am

PingLocalHost

Updated 31-Mar-11 2:57am

TweakBird

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In VB.NET?? You can't. VB.NET (or managed code in .NET in general) cannot be used for this. The reason being is that your code would have to load before Windows even starts to load. Your disk decryption software would have to load from the boot record of the disk in order to work.

Posted 31-Mar-11 6:29am

Dave Kreskowiak

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Mar-11 16:11pm

What is that is a *different* disk, just for data?
--SA

Dave Kreskowiak 31-Mar-11 18:16pm

Same exact problem. If you want to store data encrypted in a file, that's a very different solution.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Apr-11 0:37am

Of course it's a different story.
OK, thank you.
--SA

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Dylan Morley · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-31T03:19:00

Here's a decent answer on MSDN

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/Vsexpressvcs/thread/81362154-2ef5-4ff4-b6e4-5bb91a4c428c[^]

As suggested there, better to go with something that's already mature + had some serious development work. This isn't a simple subject or concept

Maybe have a look at TrueCrypt[^]

Then you could just work with TrueCrypt using the command line, which is simple from .Net code

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1315677/is-there-an-way-to-programatically-read-a-file-from-a-truecrypt-disk-into-memory[^]