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Put a password?
For christmas I got this external hardrive to put all my music and pics onto.
But my little brother likes to watch south park and whatnot on my laptop, and then he likes going through my folders.(and there, on my ext hard drive, I have some pictures that he really shouldn't see)
So Is there any way I could put a password on the hard drive so if you went on my Computer and try to open the harddrive, it would ask for a password?
thanks!
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My dear friend,
There is nothing wrong with looking at sexual pictures. We all do it, however, your brother may be too young to see it. Tell him firmly not to go through your folders, and maybe make him an account on your computer. Make your account the administrator, that way, you can keep track of what he does. If he has his own account on your computer, he will have his own folders and won't be able to look at yours.
-Linda
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Well unless you want your brother to grow up to be like you and look at those things, I suggest the best thing to do is delete them.
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Yes. Here is the uber-1337 way to do it, encrypting it in a way even the government couldn't crack.
Note that this method will *delete everything already on the drive*. You will need to take everything off it, and put it back on later.
Download and install truecrypt:
[Link](Mouse over link to see full location) (latest stable version for windows)
Open it. Go to "create volume", then "create a volume within a non-system partition/device", then "standard truecrypt volume".
Follow the instructions. I recommend either AES or AES-Serpent encryption with SHA-256 or RIPEMD.
Pick a good password, at least 20 characters in length for very sensitive data, and 8 characters to make it unbreakable for a normal person. You will not be able to recover it or anything on the drive if you forget it. It will all be lost forever.
Once you complete the volume creation process, the drive is ready to be used. To decrypt it, open TrueCrypt and "select device". Select your removable hard drive. Click "mount" and enter your password. If your password is correct, a new drive will appear in "my computer", this contains your decrypted data. The data is being decrypted on-the-fly by truecrypt. To unmount the drive, and make it inaccessible to anyone without a password, right click the truecrypt symbol in the system tray and select "dismount all mounted volumes".
You'll be able to open your encrypted drive from any computer. All you need is your removable hard drive, a Truecrypt installation, and your password. Truecrypt works on most versions of Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.
After you've made your encrypted drive, don't touch anything on the drive without running truecrypt first. If you try to copy files to it, it will ask you if you want to format it. If you format the drive, all of your data will be deleted.
Good luck!
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