MS Vista BitLocker - volume or drive?

I have seen some confusing statements regarding MS Vista's BitLocker
feature. Some say it supports "full drive encryption" and others say
it only supports encrypting the operating system volume. For those of
you running Vista and using this feature, what has your experience
been? Browsing through TechNet, I've seen both of these statements
made which isn't helpful. ;)

One of the things I want to confirm is whether BitLocker would encrypt
additional volumes (e.g. if I have two volumes on my laptop, one for
the OS/apps and another for data) or allow me to encrypt the entire
drive even if I'm running multiple operating systems, e.g. Vista and
OS X on the MacBook Pro.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: One Little Thing
    ... On a somewhat related note I would like to be able to encrypt my hard drive so that if I lost my MacBook Pro, no one could access the data on the drive. ... OS X includes a feature called "FileVault" that does ... Windows has EFS, an encrypted file system. ... really needed a domain control to connect to keep the keys, ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: Are computer forensics people as stupid as they seem?
    ... functional operating system and all the space on the drive is occupied ... by benign unencrypted data. ... install DCPP, encrypt, make a hidden OS, encrypt, create a DCPP ...
    (alt.privacy)
  • Re: [opensuse] encrypting your home partition
    ... On Friday January 18 2008 03:32:13 Wayne and Leanne Roberts wrote: ... Does/ has anybody used the "encrypt your home partition" feature ON SUSE ... Any performance overheads? ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: Enable "Encrypt contents to secure data" option in Windows Explore
    ... "Encrypt contents to secure data" is not Enabled ... I want to enable this feature in my Windows Explorer. ... They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Linux, BSD, and Unix are fundamentally insecure.
    ... what you are saying is that someone with physical access to a machine ... > the option to encrypt the hard drive, you won't get at the data. ... The *only* thing file system encryption buys you is the ability secure the ... hardware if it is accessed outside the installed operating system. ...
    (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc)