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Any chance that Sophos will provide 64 bit encryption filter drivers for use in WinPE?

El_Camino

About a year ago we had requested 64 bit version of the drivers needed to unlock a hard drive in WinPE.  Global support declined, most likely because we were the only ones requesting it.

Is this likely to change in the near future? 

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    The reason is that many of our recovery tools do not run on 64 bit systems.  We have customized the WinPE interface to be more than a platform for data recovery; we remote in to it, do system restores, admin password resets, to name a few.  Some of that requires 64 bit bootrec /scanos to work to detect the offline OS.  In order for the 64 bit vesion of that file to run, the MSDART we incorporated into the 64 bit WinPE platform needs to be 64 bit as well.  When we build a 64 bit WinPE with 32 bit Sophos filter drivers, they fail to run, due to the architecture incompatibility.

    So the question remains:  Will there ever be 64 bit drivers?

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    The reason is that many of our recovery tools do not run on 64 bit systems.  We have customized the WinPE interface to be more than a platform for data recovery; we remote in to it, do system restores, admin password resets, to name a few.  Some of that requires 64 bit bootrec /scanos to work to detect the offline OS.  In order for the 64 bit vesion of that file to run, the MSDART we incorporated into the 64 bit WinPE platform needs to be 64 bit as well.  When we build a 64 bit WinPE with 32 bit Sophos filter drivers, they fail to run, due to the architecture incompatibility.

    So the question remains:  Will there ever be 64 bit drivers?

    :47545
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