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Software to password protect my flash drive?
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captaincrunch00
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Trucrypt will encrypt it which you will have to enter a password into in order to decrypt it and view it.
You just have to select the device to 'mount' and then you enter the password to the device and it'll mount the device as the next available drive letter.
I dont know of anything to just password protect it, because just a password isnt going to help secure anything.
You just have to select the device to 'mount' and then you enter the password to the device and it'll mount the device as the next available drive letter.
I dont know of anything to just password protect it, because just a password isnt going to help secure anything.
Possibly something like this.
"E4M is an on-the-fly disk encryption product. What this means is create a volume on your hard disk, CDROM, floppy or other media which is essentially just a normal file. The file however is in fact a file system itself. It contains all the structures needed by your operating system".
It worked on a USB flash drive for me, and it is free.
"E4M is an on-the-fly disk encryption product. What this means is create a volume on your hard disk, CDROM, floppy or other media which is essentially just a normal file. The file however is in fact a file system itself. It contains all the structures needed by your operating system".
It worked on a USB flash drive for me, and it is free.
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captaincrunch00
IS-IT--Management
Uhhh wait.
I thought of this when I left work for the night: For my solution at least, any computer you put that thing into will need to have TruCrypt installed in order for you to mount the drive.
If you bring it to a friends house, you'll have to install trucrypt, then use the program to read the data on the drive.
I dont know about the other solution though.
I thought of this when I left work for the night: For my solution at least, any computer you put that thing into will need to have TruCrypt installed in order for you to mount the drive.
If you bring it to a friends house, you'll have to install trucrypt, then use the program to read the data on the drive.
I dont know about the other solution though.
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