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Volume Mounted as Removable Medium
This section applies to TrueCrypt volumes mounted when one of the following
options is enabled
(as applicable):
•
Tools
>
Preferences
>
Mount volumes as removable media
•
Mount Options
>
Mount volume as removable medium
•
Favorites
>
Organize Favorite Volumes
>
Mount selected volume as removable medium
•
Favorites
>
Organize System Favorite Volumes
>
Mount selected volume as removable
medium
TrueCrypt Volumes that are mounted as removable media have the following advantages and
disadvantages:
•
Windows is prevented from automatically creating the ‘
Recycled
’ and/or the ‘
System
Volume Information
’ folders on TrueCrypt volumes (in Windows, these folders are used by
the Recycle Bin and System Restore features).
•
Windows may use caching methods and write delays that are normally used for removable
media (for example, USB flash drives). This might slightly decrease
the performance but at
the same increase the likelihood that it will be possible to dismount the volume quickly
without having to force the dismount.
•
The operating system may tend to keep the number of handles it opens to such a volume to
a minimum. Hence, volumes mounted as removable media might require fewer forced
dismounts than other volumes.
•
Under Windows Vista and earlier, the ‘
Computer
’ (or ‘
My Computer
’) list does not
show the
amount of free space on volumes mounted as removable (note that this is a Windows
limitation, not a bug in TrueCrypt).
•
Under desktop editions of Windows Vista or later, sectors of a volume mounted as
removable medium may be accessible to all users (including users without administrator
privileges;
see section
Multi-User Environment
).