This is exactly what did, with drives that have encryption technologies built into the drive itself. (I can't stand software-based disk encryption). Check Hitachi's FDE drives. Seagate has them too, and I assume other do. As far as I know, Hitachi will not reset the drive for you, but I do not know the other companies policies.
________________________________ From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression I'm considering just using the ATA password feature. I know it's not encryption, but it travels with the drive if removed. Does anyone know what some of the vendor policies are for getting the drive reset? Do you have to prove ownership? Are there known tools available that can crack this feature? -- Mike Gill From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression I had some issues with the E-series and Whole Disk Encryption. Drive wouldn't encrypt unless a thumbdrive was installed, once the thumbdrive was installed you could manually encrypt, but if you ever inserted and then later ejected the thumbdrive you would blue screen Windows. Some threads on the PGP message boards suggested it was a driver issue, which I never did resolve (uninstalling the driver would not fix the problem). I suspected that the Control Point software was tied to the problem, too. Eventually I gave up and wiped, avoiding the driver and the Control Point software altogether, for expediency. Just a word of warning if you're using PGP WDE. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Sam Cayze <sam.ca...@rollouts.com> wrote: E6500 here too, very impressed. Solid as a rock. Not too found of the new Dell Control Point software though... ________________________________ From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression I just got my E6500, and I have to say so far I'm impressed. Its internal components are all accessible from the bottom and the magnesium chassis feels much stronger than the plastic ones. -- Mike Gill From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell Latitude E Series 1st Impression This is my first time really getting my hands on a Dell Latitude E4500 since Dell went away from the D series. (The ones we have sold in the last couple months have been installed by my lakey.) Is it me, or are these being made in the same factory as the Lenovo's? It looks to me like they could use the same docking station, batteries and other accessories. Is this by design and I totally missed that memo or what? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
