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    Question Best way to encrypt/secure HDD?

    Great, thanks for the info. One last question before I make a decision. Does password protecting office documents (word, excel, access) encrypt them? might sound an obvious question, but is password protecting the files individually the same level of security as encryption of the drive? because...
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    Question Best way to encrypt/secure HDD?

    Thanks for the response. I looked it up and it started going on about creating a partition and something about a TPM chip? A few more questions if I may: Is it time consuming? I've read some say it's taken 8 hours etc. Once set up, is it simply a password that needs entered on boot? Will the...
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    Question Best way to encrypt/secure HDD?

    Hi, Got a standard PC using Win10 that's a few years old being used in an office. They have several dozen word, excel and access files with sensitive customer data. These files are password protected. They want to encrypt their whole drive, but is this the best way to go about things? I can...