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| Thread ID: 125546 | 2012-07-05 06:18:00 | How to password protect a USB drive | tuiruru (12277) | Press F1 |
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| 1286184 | 2012-07-05 06:18:00 | Hi Does anyone know of a free, simple bur good, piece of software that will PW protect a 4 gig USB drive? If there's an encryption option as well that would be good. This one does it (www.downloadcrew.co.uk) but will only go up to 2 gig |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1286185 | 2012-07-05 06:24:00 | Only one thing you need to look at :D http://www.truecrypt.org/ |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1286186 | 2012-07-05 06:41:00 | This (www.rohos.com) should do the trick. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1286187 | 2012-07-05 07:12:00 | +1 for truecrypt, great piece of software. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1286188 | 2012-07-05 08:40:00 | What happens about files and portable apps that are already on the drive? | tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1286189 | 2012-07-05 08:44:00 | I think they will stay. Just to be sure, I'd transfer them over to a pc before putting the password on. Someone (who has used truecrypt) may be able to say for sure. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1286190 | 2012-07-05 15:27:00 | Depends on how you want to do it. I've not used recent Truecryt versions. Just copy the data off, make a 'hidden' partition that takes up say 3.8GB, have a smaller 64MB partition just for Truecrypt (In case you wanna use the device on another PC) and then you're all good to go :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1286191 | 2012-07-05 19:35:00 | Im pretty sure truecrypt requires admin rights so if you go to a library or something like that you wont be able to acsess your files. | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1286192 | 2012-07-05 21:30:00 | Im pretty sure truecrypt requires admin rights so if you go to a library or something like that you wont be able to acsess your files. I'm pretty sure it does, whereas rohos mini doesn't (I think) |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1286193 | 2012-07-05 21:48:00 | depending what you are trying to achieve a password protected zip file might be simpler | dugimodo (138) | ||
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