It sounds to me as if the problem may with your hardware rather than with TrueCrypt. I have and external CD/DVD writer connected to one of my computers (it's the only CD/DVD drive I have nowadays).

The second, larger audit of TrueCrypt 7.1a has concluded, with no sign of the software-breaking flaw that its creators warned was there. What's this mean for the future of the code and the program's ...

As the uncertainty surrounding the end of TrueCrypt continues, members of the security community are working to preserve a known-good archive of the last version of the open source encryption software ...

Data has never been such a traveler. In our mobile devices, flash drives, computer desktops, on the Internet and in the multitude of cloud services, data is constantly being downloaded, uploaded, or ...

Last week I wrote about the suspicious and abrupt announcement that TrueCrypt, a popular free open source encryption solution, was being abandoned and is considered “harmful and no longer secure”. In ...

How to safeguard your personal data with TrueCrypt and SpiderOak. There are so many cases of personal identifiable information (PII) or any type of data exposed on the Internet today. The details ...

We’re not really any closer to finding out the real reason why the TrueCrypt project was abruptly shut down last week, but at least some on the internet aren’t prepared to see the open source ...