Good work Alpine, +1 to you.If you live in a jurisdiction where you can be compelled to surrender your password, by all means use the hidden container.V.Quote from: alpine on May 15, 2012, 07:00 pmI found a good tutorial on YouTube for truecrypt. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ttbtGTlOTAHopefully that should point you in the right direction to encrypting the hard drive. Also you might want to create. A hidden container incase law enforcement make you give up the password.Here's a link for thathttp://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/create_hidden_encrypted_volume_within_a_file_using_truecrypt.cfmAnd for a secure DoD wipe you can use file shredder (free download from download.com) google itHope that helps, alpine