I am about ready to purchase an I/O Magic 80GB - External 2.5” Hard Drive - Portable Storage Device.
Rationale: Price. $69 at Office Max right now. Size. It is only 4.875in x 2.875in x 0.5in. GB's. I need more storage space portably. Speed 5400rpm.
Two things for those who would care to guide me:
- I plan to use TruCrypt or Toucan to encrypt part of the drive. Not discussion needed on admin rights, every PC i use will have it, plus I will still have my Flash drive in a pinch. Can I use an ini to launch TruCrypt or Toucan like I use for PAM(PAP)?
- Anybody have or use this drive right now?
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Never mind on the previous questions.
The nerd in me couldn't wait.
I will let you know how it works
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(I saw your comment.)
Do you mean using the autorun.inf (to launch Truecrypt/Toucan)? Or what?
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I ended up using TrueCrypt and used the Traveler Mode to construct and autorun.inf.
So far so good.
Made a 15Gb secure partition and copied it over to the drive.
PortableApps seem to launch faster so far.
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I love it!!!
Pros:
Cons:
To make this just the perfect drive I only need to accomplish one more thing. Get the TrueCrypt partition to read the ini when it is mounted. I don't think this is possible. I can get it to open up the drive, but it will not read the ini which renames the drive, provides an icon and launches StartPortableApps.exe. Not really a big worry though.
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uTorrent, for example, does not like it when you change drive letters for files.
Use my uTorrent Portable
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...the downloaded filed is what I was referring to.
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