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Addonics Technologies – Jupiter Cipher ExDrive User’s Guide v1.0 6
Chapter 3 Keeping track of the hard drive
If you are using the Jupiter Cipher ExDrive drive enclosure to encrypt multiple
hard drives, it is important to label your hard drive if you are taking the drive
out of the enclosure. The hard drive with Jupiter Cipher ExDrive encryption
will look like a brand new drive when attach directly to the IDE or SATA
controller of a computer. There will be no partition or any hint to indicate that
the drive contains encrypted data. When the drive is partitioned, all the
encrypted data will be lost.
The same holds true if a hard drive already has data on it is installed into the
Jupiter Cipher ExDrive drive enclosure. The computer detects the hard drive as
a brand new drive or a drive that is unallocated. Once you proceed to partition
the drive, the data that was on the hard drive will be erased and cannot be
recovered.
A Jupiter Cipher ExDrive encrypted hard drive can be moved to another Jupiter
Cipher ExDrive drive enclosure. But the same key used in encrypting the hard
drive must be used in the new drive enclosure in order to access the drive.
If you are installing multiple Jupiter Cipher ExDrive drive kits into a large
organization, it is important to keep track of the drive and the encryption
key. Once it gets mixed up, there is no possible way to recover the data on
the encrypted hard drive.