Enabling BIOS pasword protected SSD drive in Ubuntu 12.10
I have posted it in [Hardware, but I think better place would be in [Installation]. Sorry for the cross-posting, if some gentle soul will show me how can I reference in Area X post from Area Y - I will be thankfull.
I have IBM Thinkpad laptop with OCZ Vertex 4 SSD drive with Windows 7 - /dev/sda. This drive when using HD password in Bios (which I am) is automatically encrypted.
When UBUNTU 12.10 is installed on second hard drive - /dev/sdb - (USB attached) and booted from it - it cannot even mount Windows 7 SSD drive.
I am *not* using bitlocker. This SSD drive uses AES256 encryption.
BIOS disk password - when set - triggers encryption in firmware of the drive. Whole disk is encrypted - including partition table and MBR.
Ubuntu can see this drive only when BIOS disk password is disabled - but this unfortunately is in violation of the company policy :sad:
How can I make UBUNTu "see" my SSD drive? I am assuming that somehow entering somewhere HDD password would be sufficient. I would like *NOT* to lose my Windows 7 installation.
I have posted it in [Hardware, but I think better place would be in [Installation]. Sorry for the cross-posting, if some gentle soul will show me how can I reference in Area X post from Area Y - I will be thankfull.
I have IBM Thinkpad laptop with OCZ Vertex 4 SSD drive with Windows 7 - /dev/sda. This drive when using HD password in Bios (which I am) is automatically encrypted.
When UBUNTU 12.10 is installed on second hard drive - /dev/sdb - (USB attached) and booted from it - it cannot even mount Windows 7 SSD drive.
I am *not* using bitlocker. This SSD drive uses AES256 encryption.
BIOS disk password - when set - triggers encryption in firmware of the drive. Whole disk is encrypted - including partition table and MBR.
Ubuntu can see this drive only when BIOS disk password is disabled - but this unfortunately is in violation of the company policy :sad:
How can I make UBUNTu "see" my SSD drive? I am assuming that somehow entering somewhere HDD password would be sufficient. I would like *NOT* to lose my Windows 7 installation.