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Addonics Technologies – Jupiter Cipher Combo Hard Drive User Guide v1.0 6
Chapter 3 Keeping track of the hard drive
If you are using the Jupiter Cipher Combo Hard Drive enclosure to encrypt
multiple hard drives, it is important to label your hard drive if you are taking
the drive out of the enclosure. The hard drive with Jupiter Cipher Combo Hard
Drive encryption will look like a brand new drive when attach directly to the
IDE or SATA controller of a computer. There will be no partition or any hint to
indicate that the drive contains encrypted data. When the drive is partitioned,
all the encrypted data will be lost.
The same holds true if a hard drive already has data on it is installed into the
Jupiter Cipher Combo Hard Drive enclosure. The computer detects the hard
drive as a brand new drive or a drive that is unallocated. Once you proceed to
partition the drive, the data that was on the hard dri ve will be erased and
cannot be recovered.
A Jupiter Cipher Combo Hard Drive
encrypted hard drive can be moved to
another Jupiter Cipher Combo Hard Drive enclosure. But the same key used in
encrypting the hard drive must be used in the new drive enclosure in order to
access the drive.
If you are installing multiple Jupiter Cipher Combo Hard Drive kits into a
large organization, it is important to keep track of the drive and the
encryption key. Once it gets mixed up, there is no possible way to recover
the data on the encrypted hard drive.