Can I Encrypt My 2nd Hard Drive Without Screwing Up Data Access?

I have 2 hard drives in my machine, one is a SSD boot drive and the other is a traditional mechanical hard drive.  I have the boot drive encrypted using FileVault but would also like to encrypt my mechanical drive as well.  When you right click on a drive in Mountain Lion there is the option to encrypt the drive.  I want to know if I do this will it screw up access to the data I have stored in there or can I still access everything normally if I unlock it after booting up?
On a side note:  I also use Bootcamp and was wondering if encrypting the mechanical drive would make it impossible to access this drive while in Windows 7 or can I unlock it in Windows 7 as well?  I am curious about this because I use iTunes to access my media from this hard drive.  It isn't a deal breaker and I'd rather have my data encrypted.

I want to know if I do this will it screw up access to the data I have stored in there or can I still access everything normally if I unlock it after booting up?
Encrypted HFS is transparent to the user. Once mounted, the volume will work in the same way as before. Of course, if something goes wrong and you don't have backups, you'll lose all your data.
I also use Bootcamp and was wondering if encrypting the mechanical drive would make it impossible to access this drive while in Windows 7
Yes.

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