Can a volume be automatically mounted whenever its host device gets connected to the computer? Yes. For example, if you have a TrueCrypt container on a USB flash drive and you want TrueCrypt to mount it automatically when you insert the USB flash drive into the USB port, follow these steps: 1. Mount the volume (to the drive letter to which you want it to be mounted every time). 2. Right-click the mounted volume in the drive list in the main TrueCrypt window and select ‘ Add to Favorites
’. 3. The Favorites Organizer window should appear now. In this window, enable the option ‘ Mount selected volume when its host device gets connected
’ and click OK
. Then, when you insert the USB flash drive into the USB port, you will be asked for the volume password (and/or keyfiles) (unless it is cached) and if it is correct, the volume will be mounted. Note: TrueCrypt will not prompt you for a password if you have enabled caching of the pre-boot authentication password ( Settings
> ‘ System Encryption
’) and the volume uses the same password as the system partition/drive. Can my pre-boot authentication password be cached so that I can use it mount non-system volumes during the session? Yes. Select ‘ Settings
’ > ‘ System Encryption
’ and enable the following option: ‘ Cache pre-boot
authentication password in driver memory
’. I live in a country that violates basic human rights of its people. Is it possible to use TrueCrypt without leaving any ‘traces’ on unencrypted Windows? Yes. This can be achieved by running TrueCrypt in portable mode under BartPE or in a similar environment. BartPE stands for "Bart’s Preinstalled Environment", which is essentially the Windows operating system prepared in a way that it can be entirely stored on and booted from a CD/DVD (registry, temporary files, etc., are stored in RAM – hard drive is not used at all and does not even have to be present). The freeware Bart’s PE Builder can transform a Windows XP installation CD into a BartPE CD. Note that you do not even need any special TrueCrypt plug-in for BartPE. Follow these steps: 1. Create a BartPE CD and boot it. (Note: You must perform each of the following steps from within BartPE.) 2. Download the TrueCrypt self-extracting package to the RAM disk (which BartPE automatically creates). Note: If the adversary can intercept data you send or receive over the Internet and you need to prevent the adversary from knowing you downloaded TrueCrypt, consider downloading it via
