Nevermind I'm fucking lost.

I thought i had tor and pgp and tails on a sd card but it always says i need to for mat it after i have already formated truecrypt! what do i do? its pissing me off ive spent too many god damn days on it. i need a video or tuttorial showing how to set up a usb/sd with all the proper precautions.


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[1 Points] None:

If youre buying personal, just use tor with pgp for messaging. Save yourself the headache, and try to do it again from the start in about a week or two if you really want to use tails to access markets


[1 Points] CoveredInMud:

Do you have a DVD-R disk? A DVD-RW disk is OK too although be mindful a re-writable disk is modifiable. Tails on a DVD burns the image so it's not a drag and drop burn like most other data. Once you download tails and verify it with their key, you right click on the downloaded Tails image and select "burn image."

The reformatting of the USB is not just a FAT32 reformat. You have to use a tool to format the image to usable media on your USB. Again, this is not a drag, drop and play You must have 2GB of free memory space on your USB (or SD card.) Choose your OS setup from this page https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/installation/manual/ Then download the tool and follow the instructions on the webpage.

Then you have to make your PC boot to the desired drive first. Most newer PC's utilize the escape button to enter the start up menu. Then set your computer to boot 'X' drive (or DVD drive) first. Make sure the disk or thumb drive is in the proper port and restart your computer. Give some time for it to start running and enjoy.


[1 Points] bah13:

If you are trying to encrypt the drive with true crypt and then install tails in that it won't work. You'll have to create a partition after tails boots up, using tails built in encryption software.

Hope that helps.