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Addonics Technologies – Jupiter Cipher ExDrive User’s Guide v1.0 
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Chapter 3 
Keeping track of the hard drive  
 
If you are using the Jupiter Cipher ExDrive
 
drive enclosure to encrypt multiple 
hard drives, it is important to label your hard drive if you are taking the drive 
out of the enclosure.  The hard drive with Jupiter Cipher ExDrive
 
encryption 
will look like a brand new drive when attach directly to the IDE or SATA 
controller of a computer. There will be no partition or any hint to indicate tha t 
the drive contains encrypted data.  When the drive is partitioned, all the 
encrypted data will be lost.  
 
The same holds true if a hard drive already has data on it is installed into the 
Jupiter Cipher ExDrive
 
drive enclosure. The computer detects the hard drive as 
a brand new drive or a drive that is unallocated. Once you proceed to partition 
the drive, the data that was on the hard drive will be erased and cannot be 
recovered. 
 
A Jupiter Cipher ExDrive
 
encrypted hard drive can be moved to another Jupiter 
Cipher ExDrive
 
drive enclosure. But the same key used in encrypting the hard 
drive must be used in the new drive enclosure in order to access the drive. 
 
If you are installing multiple Jupiter Cipher ExDrive drive kits into a large 
organization, it is important to keep track of the drive and the encryption 
key. Once it gets mixed up, there is no possible way to recover the data on 
the encrypted hard drive.