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Is this possible? Dual boot two separate hard drives, one with encryption, one without

  • 1.  Is this possible? Dual boot two separate hard drives, one with encryption, one without

    Posted Dec 03, 2013 08:57 PM

    I have a company laptop with a hard drive that has Symantec Endpoint Encryption 8 and windows 7. I would like to install another second hard drive with windows 7 and boot to that image when not doing company business.  will having both hard drives in the system when running either the encrypted company image or the unencrypted non-company image cause any issues?  I would like to avoid having to remove either hard drives as it's a minor inconvenience, but not sure of what the consequences could be.  

    would the SEE encrypted image start to encrypt my other drive and make it unbootable? would the unencrypted drive see the encrypted drive in the system and start causing issues as well?

    any advice would be appreciated.

     

    thanks!



  • 2.  RE: Is this possible? Dual boot two separate hard drives, one with encryption, one without
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    Posted Dec 04, 2013 03:44 AM

    While a very old article now, I believe it still applies:

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH151469

    While SEE will not necessarily encrypt your second drive if you don't want it to (depending on the configuration), the changes it makes may still prevent you from dual booting.