The bad thing about Truecrypt

Not sure how it's riskier to be honest. The main issue was that I didn't HAVE another drive (Thus the issue). Wouldn't be a problem if I could print my own money -.-

 

The major risk that I'm considering is a crash (power failure or whatever) during the process. I know that NTFS handles that gracefully. It rolls back whatever didn't complete. I don't know how well Truecrypt would handle that. Anyone know?

 

couldnt tell havent had too many powerfailures yet , thou i wouldnt think that itd be a problem imo as long as you dont have write cache buffer flushing disabled

 

To the OP .
Why don't you separate your data and your OS ?
1 partition for windows, one for the rest, independently encrypted .
That way you only have to decrypt the small OS-partition, 60-80GB should be plenty for most people . Or you can just re-install on top of the encrypted partition .

To redcell :
How does it matter what program was used to encrypt ?
If people think forensic investigators don't know what 1TB of random data on a HDD means, you are deluding yourselves .
I can very quickly create EXACTLY the same partition-scheme as used by TC .
Does that PROVE I'm using TC ? No, it does not .

In the article you link to : http://www.shortinfosec.net/2009/02/tutorial-hidden-operating-system-with.html
we find this little gem :

Yes please !!
PLEASE 'destroy the hidden OS ... just to be on the safe side' .. And see how any third-rate shyster will get the case kicked out of court .
Seriously .. Basing paranoia on the opinion of somebody who thinks forensic investigators destroy evidence on purpose ? Isn't that a felony btw ?

 

Either I havent explained this very well or you haven't read the thread, I had two drives, one broke, one remains, the one that remains was a FDE setup, I backed up my data onto the FDE OS disk in order to save it from the dying drive.

I have a UPS so that is of little concern to me, does it make me more vulnerable to cold boot attacks? I'd imagine so but of that I am not really concerned, if somebody really wants to do a cold boot for my keys they could easily just freeze the RAM.