Using Boot Camp with PGP Whole Disk Encryption/Symantec Drive Encryption
| Article:TECH149590 | | | Created: 2009-10-13 | | | Updated: 2013-02-14 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH149590 |
Problem
This article details how to use Boot Camp with PGP Whole Disk Encryption (PGP WDE) and Symantec Drive Encryption.
If upgrading an existing installation of PGP Whole Disk Encryption with Boot Camp to PGP Desktop 10.2 or later, see this article
Warning: If at any time you upgrade PGP Desktop on one of your operating systems (Windows or Mac OS X) with Boot Camp which is PGP Whole Disk Encrypted, be sure to boot into the other partition and upgrade the PGP Desktop installation there as well. Each operating system partition must use the same version of PGP Desktop on each boot partition. This is due to the Windows installer and PGP Desktop installation takes care of updating the BootGuard data for the Windows partition and the Mac OS X installer and PGP Desktop installation updates the BootGuard data for the Mac OS X partition.
Solution
To read/write data to the Windows partition from Mac OS X (this includes encryption of the Boot Camp Windows partition for PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac), a 3rd party NTFS driver must added to Mac OS X to support this operation.
Before beginning, be sure Boot Camp is installed correctly. For more information on Boot Camp installation, click here for an Apple Support page.
| Warning: Windows XP on NTFS is not supported with Boot Camp. |
Initial installation of PGP Desktop and Boot Camp
- Close all open applications.
- Run the Boot Camp Assistant located in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder.
- Create a partition on the disk for Windows.
Warning: Do not install Windows at this time.
- Install PGP Desktop and authorize the software.
- Run the Boot Camp Assistant and install Windows on the previously created partition.
Caution: Follow the Boot Camp instructions carefully. During the installation of Windows Vista, you will be prompted to reformat the default Boot Camp partition to use NTFS instead of FAT32, be careful to format the correct partition.
- Install PGP Desktop for Windows on the Windows operating system.
- Reboot the system into the Mac OS.
- Open PGP Desktop and perform PGP Whole Disk Encryption.
Install PGP Desktop with an established Boot Camp installation
- Install PGP Desktop for Windows.
- Reboot the system to Mac OS X.
- Install PGP Desktop for Mac OS X.
- Perform PGP Whole Disk Encryption.
Running the Boot Camp Assistant on a system with PGP Desktop
- Decrypt the disk. Boot Camp cannot be installed on an encrypted disk. The disk must be formatted as a single HFS partition to use the Boot Camp Assistant.
- Run the Boot Camp Assistant to include support for Windows.
- Install Windows.
Caution: Follow the Boot Camp instructions carefully. During the installation of Windows Vista, you will be prompted to reformat the default Boot Camp partition to use NTFS instead of FAT32, be careful to format the correct partition.
- Install PGP Desktop for Windows. Do not encrypt the disk.
- Reboot the system to Mac OS X.
- Perform PGP Whole Disk Encryption.
| Note:You can wait for PGP Whole Disk Encryption to complete or encryption can be paused and restarted on Windows. |
| Warning: Perform the Whole Disk Encryption *only* from the Mac Operating system. Whole Disk Encryption routines should never be performed on the Windows side. If Running a managed PGP Whole Disk client, and auto-encrypt is enabled, there is a risk that encryption could be performed on Windows, which could result in an unbootable machine, so take caution if using this setting so that encryption is done only on the Mac operating system. |
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