Use the Password to Protect an External Hard Drive

With the rise in popularity of external hard drives comes the question of their security. And you must do some type of protection to use these external hard drives with any sensitive files. The easiest way is to use a password to protect any external hard drive you use.

Instructions

1. First, you need to decide that whether you would like to pay for a software package to provide this security on the external hard drive. You can find some free software downloads and pay downloads on the Internet. The pay versions may offer more security, but if money is tight, but you also can choose the free version.

2. Now you need to connect the external hard drive to your computer.

3. Download the password protection software to your external hard drive. Install the software with onscreen instructions. See the resources section for more information.

4. The next step is to choose a password to protect the external hard drive. The password needs to be easy to remember but not so common that others will guess the password and gain access to the external hard drive.

5. Follow the user instructions of the downloaded software to password protect the external hard drive.

6. At last, let's test the external hard drive security by connecting the drive to another computer and try to access the drive. If you install the software successfully, it will ask you for the password established in Step 4.