moving hard drive with Safeguard Easy installed

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brian wrote:

Hello everyone,

I currently have a HP laptop that is damaged and want to move the hard drive to another laptop shell.  The hard drive is OK.  The system utilized Safeguard Easy for hard drive encryption.  Is this an issue?  I have heard from some people that you can do this and others say that Safeguard Easy will not allow a hard drive to be moved from one machine to another.

Any views to help clear this up will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian

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Hi Brian,

Thank you for posting your question on the SophosTalk community forum.

Moving an encrypted SGE hard drive to another laptop of the same make and model should not pose any issues. As long as, the encryption key is not bound to the TPM chip or PBA fingerprint scanner hardware you should be fine.

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brian wrote:

Hello everyone,

I currently have a HP laptop that is damaged and want to move the hard drive to another laptop shell.  The hard drive is OK.  The system utilized Safeguard Easy for hard drive encryption.  Is this an issue?  I have heard from some people that you can do this and others say that Safeguard Easy will not allow a hard drive to be moved from one machine to another.

Any views to help clear this up will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian

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Hi Brian,

Thank you for posting your question on the SophosTalk community forum.

Moving an encrypted SGE hard drive to another laptop of the same make and model should not pose any issues. As long as, the encryption key is not bound to the TPM chip or PBA fingerprint scanner hardware you should be fine.