So if you wanted to do an entire encrypted drive, it could still be backed up separately from other internal drives, even if you partition.

Farren Constable of Manhattan, Kansas has a note about encrypted hard drives.

Just wanted to let you know that ASI, a computer distributor, is currently selling laptops with the encrypted hard drives.

In the Florida case, on the other hand, the government lacked any specific evidence about the contents of the encrypted hard drives.

This gives the impression that the hard drive's dead and tends to provoke a compassionate response instead of an adversarial response to an encrypted drive.

For example, when you're establishing an encrypted drive in TrueCrypt, you know, they have you move the mouse around.

There's a couple of interesting recent court cases about encrypted drives.

In short, the Government physically possesses the media devices, but it does not know what, if anything, is held on the encrypted drives.

This is a technical feature comparison of commercial encrypted external drives.

Although this device *could* possibly assist with that scenario, if you pop out your encrypted drive with sensitive data and ship it to yourself.