Two SSD, both bootable drives, home & work

All,

In a laptop, what is the best method to have two separate HD's(in this case 2 SSD) that each contains a different win 7 boot. One for work and one for home. The work one will contain the company's security and such, they downgrade to 32bit usually. The home one will be for games, win7 64bit.

Thanks in advance

 

The notebook has two HDD bays?

There is no point in seperate Win 7 installs (there is no protection for the 'work' SSD if both are powered up and connected).

If there is a single bay, do you intend to switch SSD's daily (and sometimes, multiple times)?

I don't think you're thinking this through too well.

Good luck.

 

Some laptops allow very rapid switching of hard drives. They use a caddy that slips in and out of the side. If you have two caddies, switching between them would be a breeze. I did this with my Dell Inspiron 15. You don't even need to hold it in with screws.

 

there is protection like Bitlocker or EFS.

What he wants just dual boot that was pretty easy to do in XP era, not sure if that has changed and there is legitimate reason in this case.

He can assure that the home OS even is compromized is not going to be able to affect the encrypted/locked work partition.

 

The 'protection' that Bitlocker and/or EFS provides is just as much of a deterrent as what it hopes to achieve (keep your data safe).

If you've ever been locked out of your own data - you'll know what I mean.

Highly not recommended.

 

That is always the case, you lose your Swiss bank id/password (or the equivalent of it), you lose big

 

The difference is, you can still prove it's your bank account (eventually) - try that with a corrupt HDD/SSD that it really is you (and it's your data).

 

can you ? I am not wealthy enough to get in one but if that is the case, it kinds of defeat the purpose.

As for protecting data loss, I fail to see the difference between encrypted or now. multiple copy backup is still the only way to ensure that you can get your data for your mentioned cases.

the problem of Bitlocker/EFS is that without a good recovery strategy, you may lose your key, forget the password and those kind of thing.

 

If you believe that Bitlocker/EFS is a good system - then I hope your backups are using it too. Else, a (good) thief wouldn't steal your notebook - he would simply steal your backups which are not protected anyways.

If your computer data is important enough to steal - then you're important enough to have someone else worry about it. And they can't be trusted either.

 

Yes, there is no point of backup encrypted content to a less secure media.

As for the someone else would take care of that and they cannot be trusted either, that depends on the context. A corporate CEO's email is important enough but I am sure their are people in their IT can still see it (not in the normal course of operation). The EFS for example allows you to create a backup key for recovery purpose and how to ensure that it would only be used under the right scenario is what I meant 'strategy'.

It is a very complicated matter to do it right.