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How Can I Protect My USB Pen Drive With A Password – USB Flash Drive Security

Rohit — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Trouble:

USB Flash Drive Security is a free to use software which lets you protect you pen drive with a unique password without which no one can see your protected files and folder on your flash drive irrespective any computer to which your pen drive is connected and being accessed.

It can let you protect an area on your pen drive, but make sure to install USB Flash Drive Security on flash drive which you want to protect with a password. Just unplug it from the computer and it can be locked with a password.

Fix:

There will be the same transfer speed after installing “USB Flash Security”, Files in the USB flash memory will not be coded, so the speed of read and write will not be influenced by installing “USB Flash Security”.

The tool to release USB Flash security by input a password is called “Release tool” this application makes the following two areas in USB flash drive.

Small area about 0.5MB to save “Release tool” – The area to save “release tool” is 0.5M Byte that is 1/2000 of capacity of a 1GB USB flash memory. It can be access without password, when the USB flash memory is inserted into PC. Data in this area is not protected, so we call the area “Unprotected Area”

Area to save data that you want to protect – This area is all of the USB flash memory except the “Unprotected Area”.Password is necessary to access this area. This area is protected by a password, so we call it “Protected Area”. ”Protected Area” will be formatted by FAT, when install “USB Flash Security”.

Make Pen Drive Write Protected

Rohit — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:13:01 +0000

Trouble:

One reader mailed us asking how can he make his portable USB drive write protected so no data can be deleted or added on the pen drive, this is what he said in his mail

I want to make my drive write protected on every computer where I connect my drive

Portable drives or cards can be write protected by two ways either by physical lock provided on some of the pen drives, but locking the drive with physical lock is not a good way as any one can move the physical lock and make your drive writable.

Make Drive Write Protected With Physical Lock

Second method to make the drive write protected involves a registry hack which actually is computer dependent not the drive as it deals with registry.

Note: With this registry hack you will actually make all the removable drives connected to your computer write protected, as this registry hack instructs windows to make any removable storage device write protected.

Write Protect Instructions

Download writeprotect.bat in a zip package from here and extract the files on pen drive and double click writeprotect.bat to make your drive write protected. You will need to eject your pen drive once after launching the batch file to make your drive write protected on the computer.

Disable Write Protect Instructions

Download disablewriteprotect.bat in a zip package from here (this package is same as bove, download any of these two) and extract the files on the pen drive and double click disablewriteprotect.bat to disable write protection on your pen drive. You will need to eject your pen drive once after launching the batch file to disable write protection.

Note: I have tested these batch files on Windows XP and it should also work on windows vista too.

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