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Password protecting a Hdd?

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Old 12-07-2006, 3:13 PM   #1
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Password protecting a Hdd?

Hi all , is there any software that can password protect a Hdd on a pc. ?

Running three drives here and want to make one either invisible in My computer/disk drives , or password protected.

Any usefull links or advice.
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Old 12-07-2006, 3:17 PM   #2
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Hi Tiesto

Many, many moons ago I used a product called ScramDisk. It used to be free and was very good. It would create an encryted partition on your harddrive and you could only access it using a password. The partition acted like any other partition in Explorer and worked seamlessly.

The commercial products is called DriveCrypt and you can see details of it at the following sites:
http://www.securstar.com/
http://www.drivecrypt.com/home.html

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Old 12-07-2006, 3:20 PM   #3
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Just seen this as well:
http://www.truecrypt.org/

And it is open source!

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Old 12-07-2006, 3:27 PM   #4
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yeah, encryption is best method.

But depends how far you want to go? If you just want the HDD to disappear from explorer, then don't give that HDD a drive letter.

If you want to restrict access, then use security options on folders.
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Old 12-07-2006, 5:17 PM   #5
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yeah, encryption is best method.

But depends how far you want to go?
I think its just to hide the porn from his missus!
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