intecel

I'm running into a strange problem that I can't seem to figure out. I'm sure someone else knows what to do so I figured I'd ask here...

I have a 4.2 gig PGPDisk Volume that I want to burn to DVD. The burn goes through completely, saying that it's burning 4.2 gigs to the DVD.

After I check the disk after the burn, it shows the PGPDisk on there, but it's only 100 megs. I try to open it with my passphrase and it doesn't work.

The PGPDisk on my drive is about 4 gigs full.

If anyone has any idea how I can burn this to disk, I'd appreciate it.

spived2

you try burning it in raw mode? I'm still learning about encryption and how it works with burning cds/dvds, but from what I've read you should be able to burn it in raw mode using alcohol 120% or other cd/dvd burning software that supports raw mode.

Let us know how you get it to work if you do.

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intecel

The only option in Alcohol 120% for dvd is DVD DAO. No luck here either... the disk shows that 4.2 gigs is burnt, but the pgp file is only 100 megs.

Any other suggestions?

intecel

I passed up on the obvious... Snagged from a random blog:

A good maximum size for your PGPDisk container file (.pgd) should be 4450Mb (much roomier then the 695Mb container files for CD-R media). Now, you'll still want to format the mounted encrypted volume as FAT32, just in case you dump it onto DVD-R media (PGP will refuse to mount an NTFS formatted volume if it's on read-only media).

At the moment, I'm trying to figure out how well PGPDisk works when the container file is stored on the DVD+RW disk. So far it seems just as snappy as when it's sitting on an external USB 2.0 drive -- but I forget how many times you can re-write sectors on DVD+RW media. I still like to do the actual volume creation on my C:\, then I unmount the volume, move the container file to the DVD+RW platter (takes about 15 minutes to copy that 4.35Gb container file), and then mounting the volume for actual use.