Windows pgp encryption windows#
Use the Recovery Disk with the following instructions should the system not boot into Windows for any other reasons: A faster way to decrypt the drive is to use another system that has the same version of Encryption Desktop\PGP Desktop installed on it. Depending on the size of the disk being decrypted, this process can take a long time. Once you have started to decrypt a disk or partition using a recovery CD, do not stop the decryption process. Prior versions could cause these partitions to no longer be visible to Windows after fully decrypting the disk.
SECTION 3 - Using Recovery Disk Images (bootg.iso or bootg.img) The above article is fairly large, so I'll go ahead and provide some relevant excerpts for you as well. I will include some links to the recovery process below.ĭrive Encryption Diagnosis and Recovery - Symantec Drive Encryption & PGP Whole Disk Encryption. If there is any important data, you'll want to make sure you back it up after decrypting, before troubleshooting any remaining problems. Alex is correct that in order to do this you will need to either remove and slave the drive of this machine to another computer with PGP, or boot from a recovery CD and decrypt the drive that way.
In this case, we recommend decrypting the drive and performing any troubleshooting with the bootloader after decryption has happened. I understand that you are experiencing issues where the window bootloader is not acting properly.