Password protecting my portable hard drive

c258 · Sep 8, 2009

Hi everyone,

I recently bought a western digital portable hard drive in black, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can password protect it.

Thanks a lot!

c258

whs · Sep 8, 2009

I don't think you can password protect a drive. But you can encrypt it with a password. In Vista Ultimate, that is a standard function. If you have a home edition, you can use a program like this: TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux - but there are many others - just Google.

c258 · Sep 8, 2009

Ok thanks for that, will give it a try!

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