

Keep your bitlocker recover key close to you. Ubuntu 16.10 in UEFI-Mode on HDD2 with active and working LUKS-encryption.
HOW TO USE VERACRYPT ON A GPT PARTITION WINDOWS 8.1
Haven't succeeded in making it work yet but i was stucked with bitlocker preboot authentification on the next windows boot (too many bad passwords. I wanted to setup a system encryption within Windows 8.1 by using VeraCrypt 1.19, but the option is greyed-out: Setup is as follows: Windows 8.1 圆4 in UEFI-Mode (Secure Boot enabled) on HDD1. I tried dislocker to mount bitlocker partition on Linux. In this tutorial, we will choose the first option and create a VeraCrypt volume within a file. A VeraCrypt volume can reside in a file, which is also called container, in a partition or drive. STEP 3: In this step you need to choose where you wish the VeraCrypt volume to be created. ) for the pin setting.Īfter the disk encryption, reboot and check everything is ok. VeraCrypt Volume Creation Wizard window should appear. It allows you to have better protection (letters, special character. In order for programs to have access to the disk space of the drive, it is not enough just to connect it physically to the motherboard. I recommend you to "Allow enhanced pins for statup" on policy group. First, you have to alter your local policy group before encrypting the partition.

It can boot Windows but it is still no secure.Īctivate Bitlocker for Windows partition. Here is the link of a good doc i followed ( Īt this step, the grub loader is booting Linux with pre-boot authentification to unlock the LUKS partitions. Do it in Linux live session then install. A ntfsfix is part of the ntfs-3g package (an open-source implementation of NTFS) and it repairs several fundamental NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file, and schedules an NTFS consistency check for the first boot into Windows. Ubuntu handles also very well UEFI Bios with secure boot control.įor Ubuntu 16.04 (might be the same for other distributions), you must prepare your partitions BEFORE installing the system. To fix this error, you can use ntfsfix, a tiny and useful utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. If you have different hardware, you can choose any distribution that fits your needs. Not 16.10 because the kernel made by Peter Hunt (thanks to him) is working with 16.04. For my SP3, i chose the best distribution which is Ubuntu 16.04. As we have GPT, it's not a problem for the Linux installation. Select the option you prefer and press Next. If you choose 'Encrypt the whole drive', then the whole hard drive will be encrypted with all its partitions. 'Encrypt the Windows system partition' is the best choice if you are interested in encrypting only the partition where Windows is installed. Windows installer (W10) created the 3 others partitions (one is hidden on disk manager but visible under Linux with gparted). Now you are asked what area of the hard drive you want to encrypt. On my SP3 256 GB SSD, i made a 90 GB partition.
HOW TO USE VERACRYPT ON A GPT PARTITION INSTALL
Install Windows with advanced partitionning. Here are the steps to follow with empty disk 👍

I don't think missing a TPM is a problem to make it work.
