Aug 24, 2011 02:57 PM
(This post was last modified: Aug 24, 2011 03:59 PM by Spolen.)
I don't currently have all of the screenshots because my computer is fucked and certain software wont work, but as soon as I get all of the screen shots for this I will update this with them.
if you don't understand something in this tutorial, or you see inconsistencies in the tutorial, or anything is wrong at all, let me know and i will do my damnedest to clarify.
This is the very first tutorial I have ever written so please be kind, I'm not the best with explaining things.
In this tutorial I am going to be assuming a few things here:
1. I assume you are not running multiple operating systems side by side.
and
2. I assume that you are running windows (I've never used truecrypt on Linux or Os x yet.).
Step 1. Install TrueCrypt
A) Go to http://www.truecrypt.org
B) Click on "Downloads" in the menu at the top of the screen
C) Scroll down to find the "Latest Stable Version"
D) Find the "Download" button for Windows
D) Click the "Download" button
E) Click "Run" on the dialog box that appears, if it doesn't say "Run" then save it and run it afterword
F) Check the box to accept the terms, and then click the accept button
[IMG]http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/9203/tcaccept.th.jpg[/IMG]
G) Make sure the install option is selected and click "Next"
[IMG]http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/59/tcinstall1.th.jpg[/IMG]
H) Make sure you at least associate .tc extension with TrueCrypt then click "Install"
[IMG]http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2367/tcinstall2.th.jpg[/IMG]
I) After installation is complete it will ask you if you want to view the tutorial, I recommend reading it because it will cover topics that this tutorial Wont
Step 2. Encrypt your hard drive
A) Open TrueCrypt
[IMG]http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7501/tcfirstrun.th.jpg[/IMG]
B) Click the system menu at the top of the truecrypt menu and go to "Encrypt System Partition/Drive"
C) A screen should popup now with two options make sure that the option for Normal is selected and click next
D) check the button to encrypt the whole drive and click next
E) it should now ask if you want to encrypt the host protected area, to be safe click no, and then click next
F) Check the radio button for single-boot and click next
G) Now it will come up with the "Encryption Options" make the encryption algorithm AES and the hash algorithm RIPEMD-160, it should be these by default, click next
H) Now it asks you to create a password, make sure you write it down to memorize it and then destroy the paper after memorizing, the password should contain 20 or more characters upper case lower case numbers and special characters, after creating the password click next
I) on the next screen just randomly move your mouse around the window for a little bit and then click next.
J) Click Next on the Keys Generated screen
K) its gonna have you create a rescue disc now, choose where to save the ISO, after finding a good spot click next
L) now it wants you to burn the disc, which i recommend doing, but if you don't want to burn the disc, which is a bad idea in the first place, you can mount the image using alcohol 120. (you can download a trial at http://www.alcohol-soft.com )
M) Once you burn the rescue disc put it in you're disc drive and click next
N) it should now tell you that the disc was verified, click next
O) Now comes my favorite part, choosing the wipe mode the higher the wipe mode the harder it is to recover your overwritten data, but also the higher the wipe mode the slower it takes to encrypt, I'd recommend using either 3 or 7 pass even though i use 35. click next
P) now you should see a message confirming what i just said about it taking longer the higher the wipe mode, click yes if you wanna stick with the wipe mode you chose, otherwise click no and re choose
Q) now its gonna want to run a system encryption pretest, bookmark this page now because its gonna restart your computer, now click test and it will popup a screen with important notes that you can print, if you have a printer print this now, after printing click OK now its gonna tell you to restart your computer, make sure you save everything you need to, and bookmark this tutorial so you can come back to it after you restart your pc. before you restart I'm gonna tell you something, when your computer restarts its gonna ask for your password, just enter the password you made in section H of step 2, now click yes to restart.
R) Welcome back, I'm gonna assume the test completed successfully, if so you will have a TrueCrypt window up that says Pretest Completed when you have enough time where you wont need to use the computer for a while click on Encrypt. if you can print the screen that pops up next then click ok. Now it should start encrypting, don't worry if you need to use the computer while its still encrypting, just click on Pause and then when you're done click Resume and it continues encrypting.
S) After it successfully completes, click on finish and you're done.
if you don't understand something in this tutorial, or you see inconsistencies in the tutorial, or anything is wrong at all, let me know and i will do my damnedest to clarify.
This is the very first tutorial I have ever written so please be kind, I'm not the best with explaining things.
In this tutorial I am going to be assuming a few things here:
1. I assume you are not running multiple operating systems side by side.
and
2. I assume that you are running windows (I've never used truecrypt on Linux or Os x yet.).
Step 1. Install TrueCrypt
A) Go to http://www.truecrypt.org
B) Click on "Downloads" in the menu at the top of the screen
C) Scroll down to find the "Latest Stable Version"
D) Find the "Download" button for Windows
D) Click the "Download" button
E) Click "Run" on the dialog box that appears, if it doesn't say "Run" then save it and run it afterword
F) Check the box to accept the terms, and then click the accept button
[IMG]http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/9203/tcaccept.th.jpg[/IMG]
G) Make sure the install option is selected and click "Next"
[IMG]http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/59/tcinstall1.th.jpg[/IMG]
H) Make sure you at least associate .tc extension with TrueCrypt then click "Install"
[IMG]http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2367/tcinstall2.th.jpg[/IMG]
I) After installation is complete it will ask you if you want to view the tutorial, I recommend reading it because it will cover topics that this tutorial Wont
Step 2. Encrypt your hard drive
A) Open TrueCrypt
[IMG]http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7501/tcfirstrun.th.jpg[/IMG]
B) Click the system menu at the top of the truecrypt menu and go to "Encrypt System Partition/Drive"
C) A screen should popup now with two options make sure that the option for Normal is selected and click next
D) check the button to encrypt the whole drive and click next
E) it should now ask if you want to encrypt the host protected area, to be safe click no, and then click next
F) Check the radio button for single-boot and click next
G) Now it will come up with the "Encryption Options" make the encryption algorithm AES and the hash algorithm RIPEMD-160, it should be these by default, click next
H) Now it asks you to create a password, make sure you write it down to memorize it and then destroy the paper after memorizing, the password should contain 20 or more characters upper case lower case numbers and special characters, after creating the password click next
I) on the next screen just randomly move your mouse around the window for a little bit and then click next.
J) Click Next on the Keys Generated screen
K) its gonna have you create a rescue disc now, choose where to save the ISO, after finding a good spot click next
L) now it wants you to burn the disc, which i recommend doing, but if you don't want to burn the disc, which is a bad idea in the first place, you can mount the image using alcohol 120. (you can download a trial at http://www.alcohol-soft.com )
M) Once you burn the rescue disc put it in you're disc drive and click next
N) it should now tell you that the disc was verified, click next
O) Now comes my favorite part, choosing the wipe mode the higher the wipe mode the harder it is to recover your overwritten data, but also the higher the wipe mode the slower it takes to encrypt, I'd recommend using either 3 or 7 pass even though i use 35. click next
P) now you should see a message confirming what i just said about it taking longer the higher the wipe mode, click yes if you wanna stick with the wipe mode you chose, otherwise click no and re choose
Q) now its gonna want to run a system encryption pretest, bookmark this page now because its gonna restart your computer, now click test and it will popup a screen with important notes that you can print, if you have a printer print this now, after printing click OK now its gonna tell you to restart your computer, make sure you save everything you need to, and bookmark this tutorial so you can come back to it after you restart your pc. before you restart I'm gonna tell you something, when your computer restarts its gonna ask for your password, just enter the password you made in section H of step 2, now click yes to restart.
R) Welcome back, I'm gonna assume the test completed successfully, if so you will have a TrueCrypt window up that says Pretest Completed when you have enough time where you wont need to use the computer for a while click on Encrypt. if you can print the screen that pops up next then click ok. Now it should start encrypting, don't worry if you need to use the computer while its still encrypting, just click on Pause and then when you're done click Resume and it continues encrypting.
S) After it successfully completes, click on finish and you're done.
