Windows XP: Click Start > Run and then type cmd and press Enter.Ok enough with the introduction, let’s start solving the problem That way the disk just “forgets” it is encrypted with the vendor’s software and you will then be able to do as you please with the disk. However, there is hope for those stuck because there is a utility called “DiskPart” that is built in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 that performs low level formating (explained later in this article) and as a result helps destroy the instrumentation data contained in the bootguard. The header can’t be accessed using the normal format utility of windows or third party software. The reason for that is because the encryption software (in my case it was PGP by Symantec) creates something called a “boot guard” a gate keeper to the hard drive, if you will, on the head of said disk. The main problem with dealing with such encrypted disks is that you can’t get rid of the return the disk back to it’s original state (unencrypted and managed by windows) no matter how much you format it.
This article is for those who get stuck with an encrypted disk and can’t use either Windows’ Disk Management or the disk encryption software supplied by the vendor (company) that encrypted the disk in the first place (ironic?…yes)
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