How do i put password on my USB?

Answer 1

Many of the new external hard drives have password/encryption software built in. Check the owner's manual first, to see if this is available for your drive. I recently bought a Seagate drive that not only has password protection, but also has a large amount of storage space, webbrowser, and can be set up with a files structure similar to the Windows environment. You can copy your computer's files to it automatically (with included software) and virtually carry around your own computer in a case about the size of your wallet.

Answer 2

There are several types of password protecting a file.

1.) There is a program called BitLocker. this program password protects your USB drive. You could also edit password on it.

2.) You can use HGT Locker. This is a .BAT file that hide file inside a folder named "Private". After entering the right password to the .Bat file, it will unhide the Private folder and you can now unlock your files.

You can choose to use third party software, such as USB security to password protect the flash drives. For more information, please visit: http://www.kakasoft.com/usb-security/

Answer 3

hi do can i put an a password on my USB plash driver?

I really have no idea!!!

What a horrible answer...

Try these links:

http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/Useful_Utilities/Free/How_to_Password_Protect_Your_USB_Drive/

http://www.password-protect-software.com/protect-folders.htm­l

Try googling your question, it will come up with tones of websites.

Answer 4

Hopefully your thumbdrive is 2gb or you'll have to pay for it but this is how I did it

http://usbsafeguard.altervista.org/

IMPORTANT! don't rename the file from usbsafeguard v2.0 because it stopped working after i did that

Other than that it is very easy to install, just intall it like any other program and plug in your flash drive and put the program on it and run it from the flash drive, type in your password and that's it!

Hope this helps!!!

the only other suggestion I have is going here http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads

And you can also choose the file protection solutions to protect files on thumbdrive, such as 7 zip(http://www.7-zip.org) or USB security(http://www.kakasoft.com/usb-security).

Answer 5

I'm using usb encryption software to protect my memory stick. There are both open source and commercial ones. And i choose wondershare usb drive encryption after comparing some encryption software simply because it can meet all my needs and it is easy to use.

http://www.disk-utilities.com/usb-encryption/index.html

http://uk.answers.Yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070402093912AA4nBQM

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You can find many such kinds of programs on Google. Zip programs may meet your needs if the files on your stick are not very large. Or you can choose USB protection program such as Kakasoft Folder Protector, it's portable and can protect all formats of files on your memory stick.

http://www.kakasoft.com/folder-protect/

Answer 6

To copy protect contents on thumb drive, the only effective way is to use 3rd party software that's professional in flash drive copy protection.

I recommend you to try Kakasoft USB Copy Protection software, which allows you to encrypt the contents on flash drive and prohibit rights such as copy, paste, modify rights of the contents, so that you can prevent other users of the flash drive copying the contents to their own devices.

Answer 7

Yes it does. It depends on the brand of the flash drive because most or all SanDisk flash drives have password protection.

Answer 8

You need to make use of 3rd party software to secure your USB flash drive.

TrueCrypt and Kakasoft USB Security are both good choices.

Answer 9

go to truecrypt.com