laptop encryption

securing windows

[soapystar]

looking for a good program to encrypt and so secure the hard drive on a laptop. so far the ones ive looked at require you to create a new volume and store sensitive files there. is there nothing that will enrypt the drive totally on the fly?

[Newtronic]

Windows XP Pro is capable of encrypting folders or even individual files on the fly transparent to the user. I think this is a great thing.

It requires NTFS file system, but you should be using this anyway.

Good:
Totally transparent.
Good enough for most practical security issues.
Integrated with logon password, no separate passwords to deal with.

Bad:
You must backup a "key" incase your password, etc gets lost.
Backup's may be more difficult to manage.

[soapystar]

yep. problem is my laptop is using the home edition. guess i will have to use a standalone program then.

[digitalghost]

Safehouse does on-the-fly encryption and you can get a free eval copy.

[lazerzubb]

Built in Fingerprint reader, can't get any better for that kind of money.

[soapystar]

yep. safehouse does look the way to go. thanks.