Eventually, knowing how to password protect USB drive components will become important for anybody who wants to carry his or her PC around but is concerned about maybe losing it or having others plug it into another computer and then access confidential files or other folders that are important. This risk can be avoided or eliminated by following a few simple steps password protect the USB drive.
In order to password protect a drive such as a USB it should be empty, first of all. After that, find any one of a dozen good quality encryption programs that are available — some for free — on the Internet and then download the program to the drive. On the download prompt click “select device” and choose your USB drive. After that, click “OK.”
Once you’ve done that, select “next” and you will be presented with various encryption or algorithm programs that you can select for use for that particular drive. You have a certain amount of space on the drive and once you highlight the space available, you will be directed to create a password. Remember, create one that you can remember but others will have a difficult time figuring out.
After you’ve done all that, the software will ask you to select a starting point that is random in nature in order for encrypting to begin. Click on the “format” link to set the USB drive parameters so that it can be formatted. Again, if there is any data left on the drive prior to formatting it would be a good time to then store it on the computer hard drive.
Once everything above has been accomplished, take the software that you are using and select “mount.” At this point, the software will ask you for your password. You should now enter it at this point. Once completed, the device will show up in Explorer and all you will have to do after that is select “dismount” and then take the drive out of the computer’s USB port.
The drive is now password protected and will also be encrypted and therefore very hard to hack. Additionally, nobody will be able to take your USB drive and easily examine any of the data you have stored on it. Keep in mind, though, that no drive is 100% safe from a concerted cracking effort, though encrypting and password protecting it will make that effort extremely difficult.
Get more help with how to password protect USB drives and check how to password protect a flash drive.
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