[pcarbon02]

I have a question about TrueCrypt if anyone knows the answer...

If you only use encrypted containers (as opposed to whole drive encryption), what do you do about paging files, memory dumps, temporary files, etc?

I am using an HP laptop that I plan on using for school. However I keep everything on my laptop (including all my financial info and passwords to all my financial websites). Wouldn't the best safeguard be to just encrypt the entire system?

Maybe it takes a lot of know-how to find information in temporary files and that sort of thing... I have read that the con to this method is that a corrupt sector on the drive or boot sector could bring down the whole system.

However, I dont want to leave any *significant* chance that I might have to scramble to change every credit and bank account I have if my laptop were to be stolen.

I am running Vista Home Premium SP2 RC1 64 Bit. System is a P7450 Core 2 Duo 2.13 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 250GB HD NVidia 9200M

[imrui]

First of all, you should have a backup with your important files in a safe Thumb Drive in your house.

Then just encrypt it the way that you want.