1. Use BitLocker to Password Protect USB Pen/Flash Drive
Everyone have some important data in our USB Flash drive or External Disk that you don’t want to share with anybody?
It may contains some important data, documents or personal information..
you guys waste your valuable time and money in any third party software for password protecting portable drives.
Windows 7 which includes a program called BitLocker for encrypting any drive in simple steps.
Step 1 :
Insert your USB Pen drive, or any portable drive and Right click on it in explorer. Now choose "Turn on Bitlocker…"
Step 2 :
A small window will appear and prompt you for choosing a password that will be required while opening it later. Proceed by clicking the "Next".
Step 3 :
Bitlocker will create and save a recovery key in your PC in case you forget password. Simply choose the first option to save the recovery key in a text file in a secure place.
Step 4 :
Wait for few minutes while it will be encrypting the portable drive slowly. Depends upon the data volume in your removable drive.
Step 5 :
Once done, plug-off and insert the USB drive again to see the encryption in action. You have to put the password for only once for accessing the data in it until you plug off.
The encryption is absolutely machine independent i.e. whenever you will insert the USB drive to any other computer, it will still prompt for the decryption password. Very useful for locking USB drives with password and encrypting it to keep it secure.
