Configuring your Personal Secure Drive

Your Personal Secure Drive looks and behaves like any other drive when you use it, but it is not a physical drive attached to your computer: it is an encrypted file saved on one of your computer’s local drives. When you set up your Personal Secure Drive, you must specify how large it should be, and on which local drive it should be saved.

The following table gives hints on how to use this wizard page.

Dialog Elements	Explanation
Storage space	To specify a drive size, enter the number of megabytes (MB) of memory you require in the field provided, or use the up and down arrows at the right side of the field to select the size. Note that also local drives with removable media (e.g. USB flash drive) are supported. The required amount of disk space is reserved on this local drive for exclusive use by the Personal Secure Drive. Please ensure that there is enough free space on the local drive for your Personal Secure Drive. In server mode, you are recommended to create your PSD on a removable media, if you want to use it on more than one platform (see Introduction to your Personal Secure Drive). In this case, use a drive letter which is available on all platforms.
Select the drive where the PSD image file shall be saved	Select a drive where the PSD image file shall be saved. The drive selection is disabled, if the policy File Location for Personal Secure Drive is set.

Maximum PSD Size

Please note that you cannot use the full drive size, since the file system allocates some space. This depends on the operating system and may be significant for small drive sizes. Also the storage of some internal PSD data reduces the maximum PSD size slightly.

Please also note that the maximum PSD drive size is limited:

• The maximum PSD drive size on FAT16 volumes is 2 GB.
• The maximum PSD drive size on FAT32 volumes is 4 GB.
• The maximum PSD drive size on the system partition may be restricted by the policy Minimum free space after PSD creation.

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