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If you know what you're doing, I wouldn't be surprised if you can force a dump of the data for it from Windows, without any other tools. At the very least, if you can create a BSOD (or, I suppose if the computer has had one before), the default (at least for Windows 7 Enterprise) is to create a kernel dump.

All this shows is that its not safe to leave your computer running if you have full disk encryption. Its no different than logging into, say, Facebook at a public computer and walking away. If you're already in, it isn't that difficult to steal/change the password.



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