I have an understanding of how Ransomware works to a certain extent. But, I would like some input as to what it CAN do if the volumes/drives that are on a workstation are not visible or are not formatted according to a Windows workstation.

In my setup I have 2 situations.

1. I use TrueCrypt (old program but it works for me), in which a reserved DRIVE letter appears as an unformatted drive unless you MOUNT your personally secured/encrypted drive. In this case, the Ransomware would only see an unformatted drive (let's say drive X:)

2. I have a partition that I set to hidden using a partitioning tool.

In either of these scenarios, can a Ransomware attack actually take out the data or not?

Please let me know if you have any input on this.

Thanks.

I have an understanding of how ransomware works to a certain extent. But, I would like some input as to what it can do if the volumes/drives that are on a workstation are not visible or are not formatted according to a Windows workstation.

In my setup I have two situations.

1. I use TrueCrypt (old program but it works for me), in which a reserved drive letter appears as an unformatted drive unless you mount your personally secured/encrypted drive. In this case, the Ransomware would only see an unformatted drive (let's say drive X:).

2. I have a partition that I set to hidden using a partitioning tool.

In either of these scenarios, can a ransomware attack actually take out the data or not?