Great tutorial – thanks to you I have just managed to create a BartPE bootable CD from my Dell XP Pro OEM CD (previously kept failing due to errors regarding missing files!). Have also successfully managed to recover data from a dodgy SSD drive using this CD and a USB bootable version of Recuva so now have one very happy customer – thank you!

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There is an easier way of recovering the data. The encrypted drive can be placed in to a USB cradle and connected via USB to another system. There is a tool available from Check Point (on the ISO) called Dynamic Mount Utility (DMU). Run the tool on the system you have the encrypted HD connected to and authenticate, it will mount the drive as an external drive and you can copy the data from it.

Also, the BartPE procedure is indeed unsupported but it is definitely no hush hush or anything secret about it. It is available on the ISO under Tools and can be used by anyone so it is definitely not hidden.

In addition to BartPE it is also possible to generate a WinPE disk.

@ Mart:

Yes it does. I just don’t know how people do not know how to follow that chart. I think they are just lazy.

@ Gothmog:

Nice. Let me know how it went. The Pointsec plugin is more or less a hush-hush, we don’t talk about it hidden feature. Perhaps PGP is a bit better about this type of stuff.

Wow, Luke- I work in a PGP disk encrypted environment and I’ll bet they have a similar plugin. I’m going to investigate and build a recovery disk right away! Thanks for the idea!

Yet another example that this really works!