Make your system more secure with external hard drive password software

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Hi.

I am a Beginner, and I want to put a password on my external hard drive to protect it from unauthorized access. Can you suggest me good external hard drive password software? What are its advantages and what steps should be followed to put as well as remove the password? Thanks in advance.

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Make your system more secure with external hard drive password software

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Hi. Storage crypt is an excellent external hard drive password software.

The advantages of the software are that it can encrypt the USB, HDD, etc. with the password you provide, prevent the disk drive from getting formatted, the encryption and decryption available are fast, portable means to encrypt/decrypt device but for Windows 7 only. The steps to encrypt/decrypt-

1) Download the software Storage crypt

2) Once downloaded, double-click on it and install it

3) Plug-in the USB device which is to be encrypted and open the software

4) In the encryption mode option, click on quick encryption

5) Under software portability, click on the option full

6) You will have to type the password twice, the second time to verify it. Once the password has been entered, click on encrypt option

7) In the case of decryption, plug-in the locked USB and open the file name SClite.exe from the folder SClite.run

8) Type the password and click on decrypt to remove the lock from the USB

Hope we helped.

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Make your system more secure with external hard drive password software

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If you want to protect your hard drive from unauthorized access with a password, there’s no other way to do it but to encrypt the entire drive. Encrypting a drive is a great way to protect its contents from getting accessed by anyone other than you but you should not lose the password because you might end up losing the entire drive’s contents.

One application that will help you do this is TrueCrypt. Though according to its official website, TrueCrypt is no longer secure since they already stopped its further development, however, this may not actually be the case for TrueCrypt 7.1a which was the version released prior to the last one. TrueCrypt supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10 as well as Linux.

TrueCrypt supports the following encryption algorithms:

  • Twofish
  • Serpent
  • AES

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