Hard drive encryption can provide extra protection beyond the protection that system passwords gives. In order to encrypt ones hard drive, one can use a free tool like TrueCrypt for Windows operating systems or FileVault for Mac operating systems.
Hard drive encryption refers to the coding which is on every computer hard drive. It is the codes that allow the information to be hidden from hackers online.
VHD stands for Virtual Hard Drive. It is utilized on Microsoft computers in order to create a separate area to drive to store files that may be encrypted.
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That depends on encryption you are using. In any case OS creates partitions and formats it (or specialized software). Next if you have software encryption, than special driver is installed which either encrypted files or whole disk by intercepting read and write operations called by OS. If you have hardware encryption, then your whole hard drive is encrypted on hardware level. It means that hardware has extra steps before writing or reading information on hard drive.
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They are automatically encrypted
The non-encrypted file will open faster, as the encrypted one needs to be decrypted first.
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Defragment of your hard drive on a monthly basis is one way of maintaining the hard drive.
One comes with no hard drive and one has 120GB hard drive.
One can unformat a hard drive by using free software from webpage such as 'icare-recovery'. Alternatively, one could ask a computer specialist to unformat a hard drive.