[ikk157]

@ikk157

Well, you can encrypt Windows systems with Bitlocker or other encryption software that supports full disk OS encryption (will mostly install its own bootloader to be able to decrypt the disk to boot from it normally) like Veracrypt. Nothing stops you from doing that. Bitlocker is built into Windows since like Windows Vista and Windows Server from 2008.

Here you go:
- https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-b...windows-10
- https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/6169/use...your-data/

A normal Linux installation is exactly like Windows in that regards. You can run fdisk from a live CD and check which disk has which partitions... and after that just mount those partitions and look at all the content inside, perform modifications on configuration files and do a lot of other good (useful for data recovery and fixing up a broken OS)/bad stuff. Most people who install Linux don't setup encryption for their partitions either.

I really like the Debian installer for offering to setup encrypted partitions straight during the installation process. So if I usually install Debian and need encryption I already set everything up during the installation. Not sure if it is still the case but distributions like Ubuntu and many others lack this feature. Although Ubuntu allows to encrypt the home folder of the user.

You can of course set it up afterwards I guess.

Well honestly taking that approach could be near impossible in my system. My laptop is extremely low speced and encrypting all of its data manually now would most likely take forever. Also, since windows doesn’t encrypt the files by default, won’t encrypting them manually make me unable to use their troubleshooting tools on a bootable Windows installation drive?