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The Complete Guide to Secure your data in USB Flash drive

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The Complete Guide to Secure your data in USB Flash drive

Nowadays, people are using USB Flash Drive to store or transfer their data. As you can see, the tiny drive has many advantages, and the capacity is up to 32GB. Compared to 5 years ago, you may exclaim, what a big stride!

Things have two handles: As long as you are willing to, the high capacity USB Flash Drive can store all your private data, or company confidential. It creates the chances to leakage of critical files.

Facing the severe security issues, you are not helpless, and you can do something to prevent them. The software mentioned below can assist you to get through the difficulties, they are tiny, and they are mostly free.

Download and install it, enter your Personal Secret Key (password) while installation processing.

After restarting Windows, simply run UniSoft Removable Storage Protector before inserting any USB drive devices, and you can manage the files as normal. Files that are copied, moved or modified on this removable storage media will be automatically protected by AES-256 encryption. But the limitation is all encrypted data no more than 4 GB.

UniSoft Removable Storage Protector

UniSoft Removable Storage Protector

In order to decrypt them on other computers, you have to copy the program setup to the USB Flash Drive (without encryption), and then install it using the same password. For the account that has no administration rights, it will be a small inconvenience.

Rohos Mini Drive is a free USB flash drive encryption application that creates hidden and protected partition and password protects data on any removable storage device. This portable encryption tool offers “on-the-fly” encryption even in traveler mode. The installation requires administrative rights.

After installing, insert your USB disk and launch the program, click Setup USB Flash Drive on the main interface.

Rohos Mini Drive

Rohos Mini Drive

Specify password to access the encrypted partition, optionally, you can change the advanced configurations from Partition file-image area (Rohos Mini encrypted disk size limit is 2 GB. By default, it creates disk in NTFS format). At last, click Create Disk.

Setup USB Disk for encryption

Setup USB Disk for encryption

To decrypt the data on other computers, simply launch Rohos mini.exe in root folder of USB disk, enter the correct password, and you can see the encrypted hidden partition.

For the accounts that have no administration rights, just use autorun.exe in root folder to launch Rohos Disk Browser, then you can manage the files and folders as normal.

Rohos Disk Browser

Rohos Disk Browser

Rohos Disk Browser encrypts or decrypts “on-the-fly” a needed file portion in return.

As an alternative to encrypt USB Flash disk, USB Flash Security can be considered as advanced solution. The free version offers similar functions as tools listed above, but you can get more in paid version. Such as “limited times of inputting password” and higher capacity USB Flash Drive, even USB hard disk support.

Want to know more about data encryption solutions? Please look forward to my future posts :)

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