Western digital hard-drive

[toonmadlad]

Hi, I have a Western Digital portable hard-drive 120GB, Is it possible to password protect the folders stored on the hard-drive? if it is, how do I go about doing it?

Thanks

 

[nozzer]

Using any built in protection on Windows is pretty much a waste of time so the answer to your questiond really depends on what it is you want to protect and how important that information is to you.

One of the best encryption programs available at the moment is TrueCrypt. Its free, available in source-code form (if you want to make sure there are no back doors) and does a very good job of fully protecting partitions (including the system partition if thats what you want). It also allows you to mount encrypted files as pseudo partitions.

What I would do, is install Truecrypt and then use it to generate an encrypted image file somewhere on your hard drive. Usually a couple of Gigabytes is more than enough.

You can then use Truecrypt to mount this image file whenever you want to access any of the hidden/encrypted information. The mounted image file will appear to the PC like another partition (drive letter).

Without the password no one else is going to be accessing the information within the encrypted file.

 

[toonmadlad]

Thanks Nozzer, I'll have a look into that software, :Cheers:

 

[hatab]

another one is folderlock, 5.9 is the latest vesion u can use on folders (obvious really) but you can use on usb sticks too which is usefull especially if you put sensitve data on them.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Lockdown/Folder-Lock.shtml

is available on the net if u look.