ruined Pointsec encrypted drive with Vista installation

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Ok, this was my own fault. I should have known. I have a Dell Latitude D620
laptop. It had a standard configuration from Dell with Windows XP sp2 on one
~100GB partition on the drive. I think there was a diagnostic partition which
was the first partition and then what Windows sees as a C: drive partition on
the rest. It was encrypted with Pointsec whole drive encryption with boot
level authentication. I attached a secondary USB drive that I got with the
computer, booted off the Vista Beta 2 CD, and installed Vista to the
secondary hard drive. It seems that it destroyed my bootloader and my drive
with it on the main drive. Pointsec actually comes with the ability to create
a recovery disk, but guess what? That didn't work. If you install any version
of Windows, it will overwrite your bootloader on your first drive even if it
can't access the file system. Please be aware of this. If anyone has an idea
of how to fix my problem, please post.
 
rschatz said:
Ok, this was my own fault. I should have known. I have a Dell Latitude
D620
laptop. It had a standard configuration from Dell with Windows XP sp2 on
one
~100GB partition on the drive. I think there was a diagnostic partition
which
was the first partition and then what Windows sees as a C: drive partition
on
the rest. It was encrypted with Pointsec whole drive encryption with boot
level authentication. I attached a secondary USB drive that I got with the
computer, booted off the Vista Beta 2 CD, and installed Vista to the
secondary hard drive. It seems that it destroyed my bootloader and my
drive
with it on the main drive. Pointsec actually comes with the ability to
create
a recovery disk, but guess what? That didn't work. If you install any
version
of Windows, it will overwrite your bootloader on your first drive even if
it
can't access the file system. Please be aware of this. If anyone has an
idea
of how to fix my problem, please post.
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This has been discussed numerous times already on this forum. Please
search. I'd start with VistaBootPro, if I were you. And it's highly
unlikely that Vista will boot from an external drive, either.
 
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