Password Protect Portable Hard Drive?

Justin S

I have seen a bunch of other questions much like mine on here but none of them really had the answer I was looking for. Also Please don't say search google because believe it or not I actually tried that already.

Ok I have a portable WD hard drive about 400 gigs large. I would like a program to password protect it. However, I would like to stay away from encryption and I need to be able to use it on different computers without installing the program on each of them. I don't need super secure encryption just a simple lock that will keep stupid people from trying to get in.

I tried Axcrypt but I had to wait for it to decrypt the entire drive before I could use it (took a long time), that is why I want to stay away from encryption. I tried a program called folder castle but it only works on the computer its installed on.

I have heard a lot of people suggest TrueCrypt but I don't want to run in to the same problem as AxCrypt. A lot of the files are video or PowerPoint so I don't want it lagging or buffering all the time or long loading ahead of time, thats why Im afraid to try it (unless someone has tried it with these kinds of files).

I realize Im asking a lot but I have been searching for a while but so far when I find a new program it ends up being a let down. So more than anything if you can vouch for a program that you have tried then I will give it a try.

Thanks for the help

Answer
Try the following usb security tool which allows you to password protect protable hard drive.
http://www.disk-utilities.com/usb-encryption/index.html

The usb encryption software allows you to create a resizable encrypted area on portable hard drive for your confidential data. To protect your files, you just need to drag and drop them on the encrypted area. It is easy to use, just cost you a few seconds.

With password, the encrypted data is accessible on portable hard drive in any computer even without the security software installed. After installing USB Drive Encryption in your device, you can also encrypt and decrypt files on portable hard drive in a third computer.

Hard Drive?

BizKid

I am looking for a Portable Hard Drive (Dont Care about the Cost) It must be compatable with Vista and XP, Secure, and most importantly fail-safe. Can you help me out here?
I require this, because I lost ALL my info on my labtop and I dont want to lose it again (failed drive).
External Drives Only

Answer
No hard drive is fail-safe. Period.

You could always buy a hard drive closure with a RAID controller and set up a RAID 1 array. What this means is that you'll have two hard drives with identical copies of one another... so if one fails, the other will still work. And the chances of having dual simultaneous HD failures is low.

If you want secure and portable, you could buy Corsair's 8 GB USB flash drive. It has a padlock so that you can lock the drive until you enter the correct code for it to function again.

There's always Tape drives, which are a rather expensive backup media, but rather reliable.

Nothing is fail-safe. It's only a matter of time... whether it's 1 year... or 10 years.

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