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Asked: 2026-05-23T17:11:01+00:00

Has anyone had experience with this? I am running Windows 7 x64 on my

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Has anyone had experience with this? I am running Windows 7 x64 on my laptop with Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008. I am pondering the idea of whether this is possible and what the effect would be on performance to encrypt the drive with PGP, OpenCrypt or some other utility.

I had thought of the following scenarios that I would use to do this:
1. Encrypt the drive straight out, it and all of it’s contents.
2. Create a second un-encrypted partition and move the SQL data files to that partition and point SQL Server to that path.
3. Create a second un-encrypted partition and install SQL Server to that path along with its data files.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is a paper from Microsoft about that topic. It only covers the Microsoft encryption techniques but Bitlocker is very similar like drive encryption software (PGP, TrueCrypt,…).

    Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition

    In the conclusion it says: “EFS and BitLocker are also valid solutions either in conjunction with TDE or as standalone encryption systems.”

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