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Posted by Ari on November 17, 2008, 8:12 am
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:50:11 -0600, Gonzo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not sure if anyone can shed any light on an ongoing problem I've been
> having with DCPP (currently version 3.9 but have experienced it with
> earlier versions too).
>
> My current Asus MB has two separate PATA controllers, along with 4 SATA,
> and I generally tend to have lots of hard drives installed.
>
> Currently I have a PATA 250gb as my primary drive, along with a PATA DVD
> and 3 SATA drives.
>
> The problem I had when I first tried to install DCPP was that the main
> OS would work perfectly, but any attempt to install a hidden OS would
> fail with the boot message 'missing operating system'.
>
> I tried various options (the BIOS is awash with modes for both PATA and
> SATA controllers) and none of them worked, until I discovered that it
> worked perfectly if the main (fake) OS was unencrypted. I could then
> boot the hidden OS and encrypt it normally, but any attempt to have the
> fake OS encrypted failed with the same error message.
>
> This clearly rather reduces the security benefits of having a hidden OS,
> and I'm guessing its something to do with the BIOS setup, but I could
> not find a single configuration that worked.
>
> Is this likely to be a motherboard/bios issue that I could get round, or
> is there an alternative that is as good as DCPP (I can't fault the
> program otherwise) that I should be looking at?
>
> Many thanks for any advice.
>
> Gonzo
Truecrypt
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