HOW TO SECURE YOUR PENDRIVE

How To Protect Your USB Pendrive with Password (Top 3 Methods)

  Now a days pendrives have become most common source to store information. The new arrival of OTG Pendrives, you can use your single pendrive on your smartphone as well as PC giving us a great convenience as well as saving on storage space. However, you will agree that we will store our sensitive information like personal photos, videos, and other projects in it. If we lost it or misplaced it your information may be misused. So it is our foolish thing that using our pendrives unencrypted.

 How do you protect your private and sensitive data stored on USB Pendrives from snooping Toms and in case it is lost or misplaced ?

 So lets know how to protect,

There are there methods in which you can use one of it to encrypt your data.

Method #1 How To Protect USB Pendrive With Encryption And Password Using BitLock

Step 1. First of all , insert USB Pendrive into your computer. Now Open Windows Explore with windows key + E and right click on the USB drive letter shown in explorer. Select Turn on Bitlocker

 

Step 2. Now click on Use password to protect the drive. Now enter the password you want to set in both the password feilds.

Step 3. Now click on next and next and print the key for future reference.

Step 4. Now encryption process will start and your drive will be encrypted and secured with the password that you have set.

NOTE:: BITLOCKER DRIVE ENCRYPTION IS AVAILABLE ONLY ON WINDOWS 10 PRO AND WINDOWS 10 ENTERPRISE.

Method #2 Using Wondershare

Step 1. First of all download and install the wondershare USB Drive Encryption from here.

"Step 2. Now open Wondershare USB Drive Encryption software and insert the USB pendrive into your PC/laptop. Select your pendrive in the drop down menu and select Secure Full Drive. Now click on install button.

Step 3. Now enter the username and password that you want to set for your USB Pendrive.

Click Ok and you are done. Now your USB pendrive is encrypted as well as protected with a username and password.

Method #3 How To Encrypt Your Pendrive Using DiskCrytor"

Step 1. Download DiskCryptor from here.

"Step 1. You need to open DiskCryptor after installing and then click on the USB drive and click on “Encrypt” on the right hand side.

Step 2. On the next window, enter the username and password that you want. Once done, click on OK to start the encryption.

Step 3. After the encryption process completes, click on the USB drive and then click on “Mount”