Agile Aspect wrote: > Hi - I've been asked to re-partition a > > Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive > > and install CentOS 5 on the new partition. > > It's a Dell Lattitude E5400 laptop. > > Is this even possible with encrypted drives? How is it encrypted? Some new laptops come with drive encryption built into the hardware which I believe is totally transparent to the OS, sample device: http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_momentus_5400_fde_3.pdf Looking at this: http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/Internal_Hard_Drives/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&sku=341-6557 The drive they have seems similar, so I would expect re-partitioning to work fine, though of course backup any important data before trying. nate