Colby, John
JColby at dispec.com
Fri Jul 16 09:51:13 CDT 2004
Mark, I have not read any documentation that says anything about any of this stuff. Further in doing a google looking for people having problems I didn't really find anything. Lexar has a 24 hour chat tech support. He was useless, basically telling me to rma it and they would attempt data recovery. I have had a problem getting the encrypted volume to mount once before. I ended up just manually shutting down the volume then the media, rebooting and it came back up. I think I will NOT power down the machine without manually unmounting both the encrypted volume and the media. It is reasonably easy to do that, and I haven't ever had any problems where I did dismount everything. I have only used this thing for about a month, but I have been using it pretty much daily since I have my billing on it. I also put customer databases in the encrypted volume so that if it is lost, sensitive stuff doesn't get out. I am going to move my billing into a secure volume on my notebook. I purchased a license for DriveCrypt which is a very good program for building encrypted volumes out of files, or encrypting entire partitions. The license is reasonably cheap at $60 / machine, but the license only works on a single machine and I was using the license on my desktop. I am making my laptop my "desktop replacement" so when I get the time I will just move the license to the laptop and be done with it. I will end up just backing up the container file off the laptop to make sure I don't end up with lost data. Having an encrypted volume on the jump drive is comforting though for the customer's data. This is sensitive (personal) data and would be really bad to lose it and have it unencrypted. JWC -----Original Message----- From: Mitsules, Mark S. (Newport News) [mailto:Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:24 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Jumpdrive encrypted volume John, Thanks for the update...I'll pass along that experience. Just curious...had you read any documentation that made that assertion, and now...what are your thoughts, do you see your experience as a fluke? In other words, will you still power down with the drive inserted? Mark -----Original Message----- From: Colby, John [mailto:JColby at dispec.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 9:48 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Jumpdrive encrypted volume I specifically shut it down IF I am not shutting down my computer. I expect Windows to correctly shut it down if I am shutting down Windows. In fact I got it back by TURNING OFF the machine and turning it back on with the Jump Drive already in the socket. Before I was rebooting which wasn't working. Strange. Anyway, I am back and have copied all my critical data off. 8-) JWC. -----Original Message----- From: Mitsules, Mark S. (Newport News) [mailto:Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 9:32 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Jumpdrive encrypted volume John, Did you actually perform those steps in that order? I've always clicked that cute little icon in the systray that tells me when it is safe to remove the hardware...then I can power down if needed. A co-worker recently described your exact circumstances. He'd always said that he never bothered to click that icon...just yanked it out...now, his USB drive "unexpectedly" doesn't work. Mark -----Original Message----- From: jwcolby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:17 PM To: AccessD Subject: [AccessD] Jumpdrive encrypted volume Anyone here using one of these? I have a 256mb model that I have been using for weeks. It was working this morning. Turned off my laptop, removed the drive. This evening, I cannot mount the encrypted volume. Win2K says simply cannot mount drive (after entering password). XP does a page fault and offers to send a report to MS. Any words of wisdom? John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com