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How to Password Protect a Thumb Drive<\/h1>\n

USB drives are portable and very small in size and manufacturers are aiming for making them even smaller with each evolution, which means you can easily lose huge amounts of data in an instant. If access to your information is not protected, anyone can easily use it for the wrong purpose. So learn How to Password Protect a Thumb Drive<\/strong><\/em> and password-protecting your USB drive<\/a> or at least the sensitive data is of extreme importance. Encrypting your USB drive with a password is the best way to go when you need a protection that is extremely hard to break.<\/p>\n

However, encrypting a whole drive is not always the answer to protecting your data on a USB drive. May be you just have a single document that you need to protect, or a few MBs worth of files, why go through the whole-disk encryption process? In this tutorial, we are going to list simple to complex methods to password-protect a USB drive, you can select the one that fits your needs best.<\/p>\n

How to Password Protect a Thumb Drive<\/h2>\n
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Download Gilisoft USB Stick Encryption from the button below.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
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Please insert the USB stick that you want to password protect into the USB port of your computer.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
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Choose the drive and set the size of secure area will be created.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
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Click on the “Install” button to start creating secure area.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
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Set the user name and password of the secure area and click on the “OK” button to finish the operation.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n
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GiliSoft USB Encryption<\/a> is a comprehensive, easy-to-use solution for USB security that supports encrypting portable storage device (external drive) and can divide external drive into two parts after encryption: the secure area and public area. Converts a regular USB flash drive into a secured one in less than a minute, data on the protected area (Secure area) is encrypted by 256-bit AES on-the-fly encryption.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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