Hi All
Now here is a catalogue of assumptions, rushing and out and out screw ups.
Here is the situation:- I have a 500Gb HDD partitioned into 2 drives and encrypted with PGP WDE 10.0.2. I want to replace it with a 256Gb SSD (Samsung 830) and as there was only 150 Gb of data on the old drive I thought "what the hell" and went and used Norton Ghost Copy My Drive tool with the SSD connected via USB to sata adaptor.
System Partition Copied Fine; C: Partition copied fine; D: Partition copied fine. So far so good me thinks.
I placed the SSD in my machine and PGP Bootloader loaded and accepted my password (WOOT me thinks). Then NTLDR misssing :(
Damn I think. I knwo what I'll do I will decrypt both the dives remove PGP and then re do the Drive copy.
HDD Decrypts fine.
Re-attached the SSD and wait what is this "465.8Gb Removeable media" shows up in PGP - How has my 256Gb SSD doubled in size? I figure that cloning PGP between different size drive wasn't my best idea.
Oh what the Hell I think I'll just decrypt it and let PGP sort it out. So off it trots and decrypts the first 244Gb in about 8 Hrs and then it starts to slow. It is current standing at:- 47.55% Encrypted - 221.4GB of .8 GB remains encrypted 26 Days 17 Hrs 16 Mins remaning. 26 Days - I am pretty shure that I could rewrite each individual memory cell by hand in that ammount of time. I figure the problem is that PGP doesn't know the real size of the disk and is basically very confused.
The status command line give me the folling info:
C:\Program Files (x86)\PGP Corporation\PGP Desktop>pgpwde --status --disk 1
Disk 1 is instrumented by bootguard.
Encryption removal process is running in the background.
Current key is valid.
Whole disk encrypted
Total sectors: 976769023 lowwatermark: 512432758 highwatermark: 976768961 reserved start sectors: 62
Request sent to Disk status was successful
What I want to know is - is there anyway to get round the encryption or to re-inalize the drive or even low level format it to remove any trace of PGP from it without having to wait the 26+ Days for the decryption to finish.
Thanks
Pete