TrueCrypt whole disk encryption

[Patrick Hendrick <phendrick () gmail com>]

> I've recently installed the latest TrueCrypt version which does whole 
> disk encryption. I have encrypted my HD on my laptop and want to verify 
> that it is doing what it is saying that it's doing. So far to test I 
> have used the Knoppix Insert seurity live CD and tried to mount the 
> drive. Unsuccessful as I figured it should be. Then I used GParted to 
> take a peek at the drive and it showed as uknown file type or 
> unformatted. Anything else I can do to verify the encryption?