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I have a hard drive with a partition that has been encrypted, which is eating a lot of resources. My question is: if I format the entire drive, will the encrypted partition become restored (unencrypted)? Or will it still be encrypted, even after formatting, which means having to take the drive back to the service provider that encrypted it in the first place (IT from a former workplace), potentially giving access to sensitive information to 3rd parties?
I don't care about the data on it, I just want the entire drive back.
Thank you.
Just went ahead and did it. The partition was encrypted with TrueCrypt which, when the volume that hosts the partition is not mounted, just lays there like a huge jerk and eats resources. Mocking me. Judging me... Anyway, formatting the partition with the unmounted volume destroyed the encryption and I can now get back the 120GB that laid around doing nothing. – Ragnar – 2011-04-29T14:02:09.677