System requirements

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EgoSecure Full Disk Encryption provides strong authentication and protection for standard hard disks via sector-based Full Disk Encryption (FDE) and Pre-Boot Authentication (PBA). This provides perfect ‘turn-off-protection’, which means that the implemented security mechanisms provide the highest security for the operating system, as well as for the data – provided the computer is turned off at the time of theft. The optional use of a security token or smart card at pre-boot is the high-end solution for secure key management in conjunction with two-factor authentication.

To use EgoSecure Full Disk Encryption, your system must meet the following system requirements.

Hardware Requirements

Component	Requirements
Hard disk	500 MB Partition size File system of internal hard disk: NTFS Computer bus to hard disk: P-ATA (standard hard disks only), S-ATA (standard, SSD and SED are supported), PCI Express (NVMe SSD for UEFI devices) Sector size: 4 Kbyte (AF) or 512 Byte
Card reader	EgoSecure FDE uses CCID middleware to access a smart card using SCard API (PC/SC). That is a common driver standard and used by a wide range of smartcards. To see if your hardware is supported, follow this link.
Touchscreen	Surface Pro Devices with eGalaxTouch EXC3188 Currently touchscreen support during Pre-Boot Authentication (PBA) is very limited. If your device is not in the list of supported ones, we recommend to test the compatibility by installing FDE and performing the PBA.

Component

Requirements

Hard disk

500 MB Partition size
File system of internal hard disk: NTFS
Computer bus to hard disk: P-ATA (standard hard disks only), S-ATA (standard, SSD and SED are supported), PCI Express (NVMe SSD for UEFI devices)
Sector size: 4 Kbyte (AF) or 512 Byte

Card reader

EgoSecure FDE uses CCID middleware to access a smart card using SCard API (PC/SC). That is a common driver standard and used by a wide range of smartcards. To see if your hardware is supported, follow this link.

Touchscreen

Surface Pro
Devices with eGalaxTouch EXC3188

Currently touchscreen support during Pre-Boot Authentication (PBA) is very limited. If your device is not in the list of supported ones, we recommend to test the compatibility by installing FDE and performing the PBA.

Software Requirements

Operating systems

Firmware

Windows 10 32-bit/64-bit, to 22H2 (Without KB5041580 update)
Windows 11, to 24H2 (Without KB5041571 update)

The Microsoft updates (KB5041571) and KB5041580) currently being rolled out for Windows 10 and 11 prevent a start with Secure Boot enabled.

Please refer to the Microsoft Knowledge-base article KB5025885.

Starting in Windows 11, version 24H2, Microsoft introduced changes that prevent the user capture functionality for PBA.

BIOS
Note: The system with MBR may have 4 primary partitions at most. EgoSecure Full Disk Encryption needs one entry in the primary partition table.
UEFI (only x64)