How To Password Protected Pen Drive...

How To Password Protect
Your Pen Drive Do you carry sensitive data in your pen drive?

Then you should
carefully keep your
pen drive. Oh! You
mean you are not
that careful too. Then I would suggest that
you should password protect your pen drive.
Yes folks, you can do this by a simple
method. This is an added advantage to
Windows Vista and Windows 7 users that
they can easily password protect their pen
drives with the help of BitLocker Drive
Encryption. Its an inbuilt feature of both of
these operating systems.

Today we will try to understand that how we
can password protect our pen drive.
But before going to the process we must
consider the advantages which you get by
doing this.
First of all your data remains safe.
Nobody other than you can decrypt or
unlock the pen drive.
Secondly, if any how your pen drive is
lost or gets stolen then also no one
can use it without unlocking it with the
help of correct password.
Process To Password Protect Pen Drive
Insert your pen drive which you want
to password protect.
Click start and open Control Panel.
(Quick Tip : To skip the next three steps type
BitLocker in the search box and hit enter.)
Go to System and Security > BitLocker
Drive Encryption.
Find your pen drive listed amongst all
the drives.
Turn on Bitlocker for your pen drive.
System will few seconds to turn this
feature on.
A window will open in front of you
asking your desired password which
you want to keep for your pen drive.
Click next when you done with setting
up the password.
Store your recovery key at your desired
place. Click next to continue. Recovery
key can be used if in case you forget
your set password.
System will ask you to start encryption
for your pen drive. Encryption will take
some time.
Once the encryption is over you will
see a lock symbol on your pen drive
icon.
Remove the pen drive and re-insert it.
System will ask you to enter the
password to access the data.
So this is how you can password protect
your pen drive. Encrypting data with the help
of BitLocker Drive encryption is really
simple. Just follow this process and get rid
of your tension of losing your data.