Re: Setting up an external hard drive - partioning and sharing issues

And don't forget to export the encryption keys or you'll soon lose
everything you encrypted. Once it's gone, it's gone and can't be gotten
back without the keys. It's one thing windows does right, but MS forgot
to tell anyone about how to handle the keys unless you specifically look
for it.


db wrote:
yes, partitions not only
minimize fragmentation
but makes defragging
faster and making backups
quicker,

than if you were to do
the above for one
large partition.

in regards to encryption,
it all depends on your
needs.

for specific folder and
file encryptions, like
my bank statements
and other such info,

I simply use "free folder
hide" and microsoft's
"my private folder".

I never found a need to
encrypt an entire disk
or partition.

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"Enquiring Mind" <Enquiring.Mind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:eomyfahsJHA.5912@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
db, thanks for the advice!

I later did a search on the Internet on the subject of external hard
drive partitioning and found disparate advice. Some expressed the
opinion that it's not worth partitioning an external hard drive,
others took the opposite view. I would have thought that, if the
files in some partitions are likely not too change too often,
partitioning an external hard drive could make defragmentation
faster, owing to the smaller number of files in each partition. On
reflection I don't think that using NTFS encryption on the
external hard drive makes too much sense, because one might want to
access the files from any computer, in the event of failure of the
source drive. Therefore encryption using encryption software that
can be installed on any computer, and a key which is known to the
owner of the driver, rather than the key used by Windows XP, seems
to be a better approach. Regards,

EM



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