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Symantec Endpoint Disk Encryption, progress information?

  • 1.  Symantec Endpoint Disk Encryption, progress information?

    Posted Jan 30, 2014 05:45 PM

    I have Symantec Encryption Desktop installed and its busy encrypting my hard drives. in the tray I see a lock icon with a spinning circle, which is NOT informative at all, other than "its doing something"

    I'd like to know how much of my disk(s) is encrypted, and how much more time I have got before the task is done.

    Is there any gesture, or command I can run to get this information? command line? dialog?

    Thanks for the help!

     

    -D



  • 2.  RE: Symantec Endpoint Disk Encryption, progress information?

    Posted Jan 31, 2014 03:55 AM

    Indeed - command line is the best way to determine:

     

    run this:  pgpwde --status --disk 0 

    This assumes you're encrypting disk 0.

    Itll output something like this:

     

    C:\Program Files (x86)\PGP Corporation\PGP Desktop>pgpwde --status --disk 0
Disk 0 is instrumented by bootguard.
  Current key is valid.
Whole disk encrypted
  Total sectors: 625137538 highwatermark: 625137536 reserved start sectors: 2
Request sent to Disk status was successful

     

    Leave it a few minutes then run it again.  Compare the high watermark figure.  That is literally the progress of the encryption.  When it equals total sectors, its finished!