Truecrypt provides plausible deniability - the capability to create a hidden encrypted volume...
To do this you need the TrueCrypt bootloader installed, which is a dead give-away that you probably have a hidden volume....
I think you are confusing the capability of having a hidden O/S with the capability of having a hidden container. The boot loader is not required. Also in answer to the objection elsewhere about data being recognisable as encrypted, this might well be true on a normal drive but a hidden container sitting inside a high entropy existing container really is undetectable. This is why Truecrypt and Bestcrypt initialise the entire container upon creation.
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Truecrypt provides plausible deniability - the capability to create a hidden encrypted volume ...
To do this you need the TrueCrypt bootloader installed, which is a dead give-away that you probably have a hidden volume. ...
I think you are confusing the capability of having a hidden O/S with the capability of having a hidden container. The boot loader is not required. Also in answer to the objection elsewhere about data being recognisable as encrypted, this might well be true on a normal drive but a hidden container sitting inside a high entropy existing container really is undetectable. This is why Truecrypt and Bestcrypt initialise the entire container upon creation.