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AtulHnz1
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Preference for empty space encryption

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Hi Team, Is it possible, to encrypt only the empty space on the hard drive before then encrypting the rest of the Hard Drive in MDE?

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Re: Preference for empty space encryption

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MDE does not have such functionality.  You can have it encrypt entire volumes and in an offline installation set, you can have it encrypt used space only but there is not a functionality to encrypt blank\empty space only.

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MDE does not have such functionality.  You can have it encrypt entire volumes and in an offline installation set, you can have it encrypt used space only but there is not a functionality to encrypt blank\empty space only.

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