The saga continues with my whole disk encryption test! I faced the problem described here: Soft errors on my drive which prevented TrueCrypt to perform its job correctly.
In the forum, somebody used UCDB4WIN and successfully encrypted its disk. I used the same toolbox. It scanned my disk, found a bad soft sector and was able to restore it. Then, I restarted the encryption process and…
Until today, UCB4WIN was unknown to me but it’s a wonderful toolbox for all Windows systems. Check out the list of available tools.
Warning: For copyright reasons, no ISO is distributed ready to use. You need to download a “builder” which requires access to your own Microsoft XP SP2 media! Then, it can directly burn your CD or save an ISO.