Mounting Your TrueCrypt Volumes
Now that you've made your TrueCrypt volumes, you may be wondering, well how the hell do I access these super-duper-highly-secure-and-encrypted volumes?
This depends on the type of drive you created earlier that you are trying to mount. We will run over the three different types.
Mounting an Encrypted File Container
The method is the same for mounting both hidden and normal volumes.
If you wish to mount either the public or hidden portion of a hidden archive, simply use the different password that you specified while creating your volume.
Open TrueCrypt and select the drive letter that you wish to mount your volume to.
Click "Select File" and navigate to the location that you have your file container at and select your container. Then click open.
Next click "Mount", with the drive letter you want your volume to be mounted as.
You will be prompted to enter your password, and load any key-files that you may have used. Leave the box "Cache passwords and keyfiles in memory" unchecked.
After loading any keyfiles, and/or entering your password, click OK.
You will now see your drive mounted under "My Computer" and TrueCrypt as the drive that you selected when you mounted it.
You may choose any available drive from letters A-Z.
It now act's like a normal drive. You can cut, copy, paste anything to and from the drive.
When you are done with the archive, you may dismount it.
Dismount the drive by ensuring that every process or location utilizing that drive is first closed to prevent damage to the volume.
Next, select the drive from TrueCrypt, and select Dismount. The drive will disappear from TrueCrypt and from My Computer
Mounting a USB Drive or Encrypted Drive Partition
There are two ways to use TrueCrypt with a USB/Flash Drive/External Hard Drive.
Encrypt the entire drive so that there is no empty space left on it.
- This is the method outlined earlier under "Encrypting a USB Drive or Encrypted Drive Partition".
It will require you to have TrueCrypt installed on the computer that you are trying to mount the removable media to.
Create an encrypted file folder large (or small) enough to fit onto the flash drive or external hard drive.
- I am far more fond of this method. It allows you to actually have TrueCrypt on the removable device so that it's contents may be mounted wherever you are. I highly recommend this method over the first for removable storage.
If using this method, the way to mount the drive is exactly the same as mounting an Encrypted File Container because, well, that's exactly what it is.
If you have for some reason decided to encrypt your entire external hard drive or flash drive, then you will need to follow a slightly different set of instructions which is outlined below.
Remember that for this way, you need to have TrueCrypt installed on the computer in order to mount the volume.
Open up TrueCrypt, and this time, instead of clicking "Select File", click "Select Device".
Have your device (USB/External HD) already connected to the computer.
Next select your device from the list of available devices and partitions, then click OK.
From here on out it is just like mounting a file container. If you initially created a hidden folder on your device/drive, you can enter a differnet password to get to that area of the drive.
It will then become visible under TrueCrypt, and My Computer, as the drive letter that you specified for it when mounting.
To dismount, make sure all folders and processes utilizing the drive are closed, then simply highlight the drive in TrueCrypt and select "Dismount".
Mounting a System Partition or Entire System Drive
This is the easiest drive to mount. Once you turn on the computer with the encrypted hard drive, you will be prompted to enter the password at a command line looking screen.
Upon entering the correct password, your operating system will boot.
If you wish to disable TrueCrypt in the task bar after booting your system, follow these steps:
Open TrueCrypt, and under settings, at the top, select preferences.
Uncheck the box "Start TrueCrypt Background Task" under "Actions to perform upon logon to windows"."
Click OK and then Exit. Restart to see the changes take place. You will notice that TrueCrypt no longer is int he task manager, and that it is not running in the processes under Task Manager
Useful Tips and Tricks
Tip #1: When working with detected files, malware in particular, it can often times be frustrating when your Anti-Virus deletes the files that you are using.
To avoid this problem, add an exclusion in your Anti-Virus as an entire drive letter, such as drive Z:\. Then create a TrueCrypt file container, and inside the TrueCrypt volume, keep all the files that are detected, along with all your hacking material.
Mount this file container as that drive letter you added to your exclusions list in your AntiVirus.
This keeps all of your sensitive files safe from prying eyes, and allows you to scan your entire computer for infections, with the TrueCrypt volume dismounted, without worrying about false positives.
Nothing gets in, and nothing gets out, without your permission.
Tip #2: Think about setting up a Virtual Machine that you do alot of your hacking from, and keep this in a TrueCrypt container.
This will make it so that some of the temporary files, time, and system logs that Windows and other operating systems keep are never found, and there will be no evidence, or time log against you in case of a lawsuit.
You can use your normal operating system, but you need to be good at deleting your logs using a secure deletion method.
What does Hannibal recommend I do to enhance computer security and avoid getting in trouble?
I recommend five main things.
First, use a VPN + Socks/RAT proxy to Hide Your Ass and avoid being aprehended in the first place.
Truecrypt is your second line of defense.
And if you decide, your third line of defense is a hidden file container.
Secondly, you must have whole drive encryption. I don't care if you have multi-booting operating systems or not, but whole drive encryption is a must!Third, I recommend that you keep everything that is hacking related or otherwise illegal locked inside a highly secure file container on your hard drive somewhere. Make this container as big as you need.
Fourth, use a strong password! I'm talking dozens of characters long. I gave some hints earlier about how you can memorize a password of this length. DO NOT write it down.
Lastly, if you are not going to reformat your entire hard drive, wipe the data, and start over with a clean slate, which I recommend - nothing beats a fresh reformat, then you need to wipe down the free space of your hard drive using a secure deletion method.
How can I wipe the free space on my hard drive using a secure deletion method?
Download CCleaner from this link.
Install and run the software.
Go to Options > Settings > "Secure Deletion" Change drop down box to Gutmann (35 passes).
Click on Cleaner on the left hand side.
Down at the bottom, under "Advanced", check the very bottom box, "Wipe Free Space".
This, most likely is going to take a ton of time depending on your hard drive space and computing speed. Just be patient with it, this is very important.
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