Computers, laptops and tablets are now part of our professional life we use these gadgets in our daily life wether it is office or home we keep our gadgets with us. Computer and Internet are now become our basic need of work without these facilities our work will not complete. Our Computer keep our a lot of data and important documents so use USB devices pendrives to backup our pc.
Usb pendrive are used for data transfer. We can even perform various other task with pendrive like we can Use pendrive as ram. Traditionally we CD or DVD disk for installing Now we can easily Make bootable Usb pendrive for windows.Sometimes we need to keep our information secret and protect our data from misuse by others and remain safe. In this article i explain the methods to protect usb pendrive with password.
How To Protect Pendrive With Password
Method 1st: Protect Pendrive with USB Safeguard
USB Safeguard is a portable program that encrypts files on your flash drive in case you lose it. It also stores your email or phone number or shreds files in case you lose it. Its very easy to protect pendrive with USB Safeguard so lets start follow these steps to lock your pendrive.
1. Download USB Safeguard from Here.
2. When you start it the first time, a message will appear asking you to format the drive in NTFS before run the App (follow the instructions) and click Yes to continue with the Setup.
3. When Setup has finished, run the App (accept the license agreement) and set the password.
4. Input the password to open the Virtual drive, where you can copy your private files
5.To close the Virtual drive, click on Close button or unplug the drive to keep data safe!
Method 2nd Protect Pendrive with BitLock Encryption
Bitlock Encryption is the manual method provided by Windows to protect our USB drive. Each time you insert the pendrive you have to enter the bit lock to open the pendrive and access the files. Follow these steps to secure your pendrive with password by using bitlocker encryption.1. Insert your Pendrive in your PC or Laptop.
2. Right Click on USB pendrive you want to encrypt.
3. Select turn on bitlocker from menu.
4. Tick the check box in front of “use a password to unlock the drive”.
5. Click on next button after entering a password.
6. Next wizard is to save and print Recovery key in case you forgot your password.
7.click on next button and drive encryption will start.8. After the encryption is complete click on close button.
These are some Useful Tips to lock pendrive if you have any problem feel free to ask me in comments.
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