Creating a virtual encrypted disk

To create a virtual encrypted disk, do the following:

1. In Dekart Private Disk Control Panel, click Disk > Create.

Figure 14 New disk creation window

2. You can do one of the following in the new disk creation window :

• Click Cancel to cancel the new disk creation.
• Click Browse to proceed with the new disk creation and indicate the full name of the file-image for the virtual secret disk in the File image field. A window will appear, as shown in Figure 15 . Select an appropriate folder for the file image, indicate the name in the File Name field, and click Save .

Figure 15 Creating a file-image

Dekart Private Disk can request a network resource access password if the file-image is to be stored on the network disk, as shown in Figure 16.

Figure 16 Network resource access password request

Enter the username and password into the User name and Password fields and click OK.
If the file with the same name already exists in the folder you specified, the confirmation that you wish to overwrite request window will appear, as shown in Figure 17.

Figure 17 File overwriting confirmation request

Note: By clicking Yes and overwriting the existing file, you can lose the existing virtual encrypted disk associated with this file. Think carefully before doing this!

Upon clicking No , the file-image creation will be terminated. In this case, you will have to indicate a different file-image name in the window shown in Figure 15 to continue disk creation.

3. Select the disk letter that will identify the disk in the system in the Disk letter field of the new disk creation window ( Figure 14 ). Select the desired secret disk volume in megabytes in the Disk size field (depending upon the free disc space where the file-image will be located).

4. Click Create. The software will require entering and confirming an access password, as shown in Figure 18 .

Figure 18 Entering the a virtual disk access password

Note: The entered password must be at least 5 symbols long (not longer than 64 symbols) otherwise, an insufficient password length message will appear.

The Dekart Private Disk access password can consist of alphanumeric symbols, and it is case-sensitive . Enter the password carefully.

For more information about password choosing please refer to the section R ecommendations for ensuring Dekart Private Disk security .

Note: If the entered password and password confirmation do not match, Dekart Private Disk will convey this to the user and ask to enter the password again. Please enter the matching values in the Password and Confirm Password fields.

5. Click OK . File-image creation process will start. Its progress will be indicated in a special window, as shown in Figure 19.

Figure 19 File-image creation process

To stop this process, press Cancel . In this case, the window shown in Figure 20 will appear requesting either to confirm ( Yes ) or to cancel ( No ) creation process termination.

Figure 20 File-image creation process termination

You can do one of the following:

• Click No to continue creating the file-image.
• Click Yes to terminate this process.

When the file-image is created, the request will follow to format it, as shown in Figure 21 .

Figure 21 Created secret disk formatting request

6. To start formatting click OK. A format dialog box will appear, as shown in Figure 22 .

Figure 22 Format dialog box

7. Choose the desired format parameters (or leave them by default) and click Start. A Format warning message will appear on the screen notifying you that all virtual disk data will be deleted.

Figure 23 Format warning message

8. Click OK and wait until the disk is formatted. When it is formatted, close the Format dialog box to finish the disk creation process. Only at this point, the virtual disk creation is completed. It will be automatically enabled and ready to work. Its icon will appear in the Windows Explorer window, as shown in Figure 24.

Figure 24 Information about virtual disk appearance

Note: If you click Cancel and cancel disk formatting, the virtual disk creation process will be interrupted and cancelled.

Figure 25 Created disk ready to work