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    how to put a password on external passport hdd

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by predatorramboxxx, Jul 22, 2008.

  1. predatorramboxxx

    predatorramboxxx Notebook Deity

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    i recently bought a 2.5 passport hard drive and formatted it to ntfs becuase fat32 on it you cant put more then 4gigs and then i put files on it and so on
    how do i put a password on it so every time i plug it in it asks for a password on it to see the files ...
     
    predatorramboxxx, Jul 22, 2008
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    AFAIK, you cannot do it in hardware. You'll need TrueCrypt to software-encode the drive.
     
    Greg, Jul 22, 2008
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    i know that
    i was wondering what programs?
    iam not a fan of truecrypt
     
    predatorramboxxx, Jul 22, 2008
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