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Additional options

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There are a number of options that are common to both DETech (WinPE) and DETech (Standalone). These options have similar functions in both recovery methods.

Options

Description

Disk Information

  • Disk Power Fail Status — Drive Encryption Trellix Drive Encryption - SaaS tracks the progress of encryption on the drive to ensure that if power is lost during encryption, the process is recoverable.

  • Status -— Determines whether the drive is currently in power-fail state. A status of Inactive indicates that the current encryption process has finished.

  • Disk Crypt List

    • Crypt List Region Count — The number of defined encrypted areas of this logical disk. This usually corresponds to the number of partitions on the drive.

      • Region — Each region is defined as follows:

        • Start Sector — The physical start sector of the region

        • End Sector — The last physical sector included in the region

        • Sector Count — The number of sectors included in this region

  • Disk Partitions — A section per logical partition on this physical drive as follows:

    • Partition Count — The unique partition number.

    • Partition Type — The file system detected on this partition.

    • Partition Bootable — Whether the partition is bootable or not.

    • Partition Recognized — Whether the partition is recognized as viable.

    • Partition Drive Letter — The detected drive letter of this partition.

    • Partition Start Sector — The physical start sector of the partition.

    • Partition End Sector — The physical end sector of the partition.

    • Partition Sector Count — The number of sectors in the partition.

    • Partition Bus Type — Bus type used in particular partition.

Repair Disk Information

The Repair Disk Information option fixes problems with any disk that is set as the boot disk. For this to work the crypt list portion must still be valid and the power fail state must be inactive.

The disk information is stored in a chain of sectors. If the chain of sectors breaks, then it is not possible for Drive Encryption Trellix Drive Encryption - SaaS to figure out what parts of the disk are encrypted. As a result, the user gets errors. The Repair Disk Information option attempts to repair the broken chain sectors.

Force Crypt Sectors

Unlike the Crypt Sectors | Encrypt/Decrypt option, the Force Crypt Sectors option does not consider the disk crypt state. It simply performs the operation blindly according to user input. Force Crypt does not support power fail, nor does it apply any logic or parameter validation on the input.

You should use the Force Crypt Sectors option only when everything else fails. For example, when the on-disk structures are completely corrupted.

Caution

  • Contact Trellix Technical Support for assistance before using this option. If used incorrectly, this option causes irretrievable data loss. If you are forced to use this option, record each operation you apply to support data recovery.

  • This option does not support power fail protection. Ensure that there is no possibility of losing power before using this option.

Edit Disk Crypt State

The disk crypt state contains information about the range of sectors that are encrypted. This option allows you to change the ranges.

Caution

  • Contact Trellix Technical Support for assistance before using this option. If used incorrectly, this option causes irretrievable data loss.

  • This option does not support power fail protection. Ensure that there is no possibility of losing power before using this option.

Set Algorithm

This option is present under Disk Operations on the DETech page for setting the correct algorithm on a system.

Set Boot Disk

This option displays a list of disks from which the user can select a disk to use as the boot disk.

Code of the Day (COD)

Code of the Day is also known as the daily authorization code. Certain recovery operations in DETech require administrative access. The user can get this access by typing this four-digit code (COD) into the authorization screen.