Saturday, 7 December 2013

Give Password Protection To Your USB Drive Without Using Any Software


Give Password Protection To Your USB Drive Without Using Any Software and Unlock Password Protection, BitLocker Password Protection


If you don’t want to show your USB Drive’s data to your friends, Family persons or others. So I’ll give you a very simple trick to lock your USB without using any application software.


There are many 3rd party applications available in online market but these application softwares are not available in full version, if you want to run that application lifetime then you want to pay to that but if you don’t want to spend money for that then this trick can helps you.


Just do these simple steps and you will make your USB Drive password Protected


Step 1. Plug in your USB Drive in your PC


Step 2. Go to Control panel, in control panel at the top right you will see an search box. In search box type BitLocker Drive Encryption.


Step 3. Now launch that application


Step 4. Then find your USB Drive and click on Turn on BitLocker


Step 5. Now your Windows will ask you to set a password


Step 6. Click on first check box (Use a password to unlock the drive) and Set a strong password twice and click on next.


Step 7. Now you will see two options (Save the recovery key to a file and Print the recovery key) choose that option which one suites you best and click on next.


Step 8. Now click on Start Encrypting


That’s it, it will take some time for encrypting your USB and after that your USB will be password protected and if someone tries to access you USB Drive, Windows will ask him or her to enter the current password.


Note : This trick is only for Windows


How to Unlock Password Protection or Change Password


Step 1. Plug in Your USB Drive in PC


Step 2. Go to Control Panel and then BitLocker Drive Encryption


Step 3. Now find your USB drive and click on “Turn Off BitLocker”


That’s it..


For change password do above step 1 and 2 and then


Step 3. Now find your USB and click on “Manage BitLocker” in Manage BitLocker you will see five options (Change password to unlock the drive, Remove password from this drive, Add a smart card to unlock the drive, Save or print recovery key again, Automatically unlock this drive on this computer). Click on Change password to unlock the drive option and change password.


Note : In your Windows, there is also an another simple way to find BitLocker. Just go to my computer and find your USB Drive and right click on it and find an option called bitLocker. Click on it and after that do all above’s steps. 

2 comments:

  1. It's good, I am a Windows 7 Professional user and there is no bitlocker, "TrueCrypt" is a good choice if you don't want to spend money and don't care complex . However, I profer to use this folder protector: http://www.kakasoft.com/folder-protect/ more, because it's so easy but safety enough.

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