Volume Pane

BestCrypt Volume Encryption main window contains Volume Pane where the program shows all the volumes on fixed, removable and floppy disks supported by the program. The following picture illustrates Volume Pane.

Volume Pane shows the following information about every volume (from left to right on the picture above):

• Icon, corresponding to the volume in standard My Computer program
• Volume Label and Drive Letter ( like SYSTEM(C:) ) for the volume.
• Status of the volume, that can be one of the following:
  • Not Encrypted.
  • Encrypted and Mounted. The volume is encrypted and opened for access.
  • Not Formatted or Not Mounted. The program does not differ encrypted volumes from not formatted volumes until a proper password is entered and volume becomes opened for access (i.e. mounted).
  • Partially Encrypted and Not Mounted. The volume is not available for access (i.e. not mounted). "Partially Encrypted" means the following. The user can permanently encrypt not a whole volume in some situations, for example, because of low battery power on a laptop computer. It is not a problem and the user can run Encrypt Volume command again to complete encrypting process.
  • Partially Encrypted and Mounted. The volume is not completely encrypted (as explained above) and opened for access (i.e. mounted).
• Capacity
. A whole capacity of the volume.
• Free space
. Free space on the volume.
• File System. File System used to format the volume: FAT, FAT32 or NTFS.
• Volume type. The program shows type of volume as it is defined in Windows: Basic volumes located on Basic disks or volumes located on Dynamic disks: Simple, Spanned, Striped, Mirrored or RAID-5 volume.
• Algorithm. Encryption algorithm used to encrypt the volume if the user has encrypted it. Note that program shows information about encryption algorithm only if the user mounts (i.e. opens for access) the volume. If the volume is not mounted, the information is unavailable.

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