How to Password Protect External Hard Drive?

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How to Password Protect External Hard Drive?

24 July 2020 Ashley S. Miller Specialist of Customer Service Dept.

Summary
Hard drive, the common storage device, facilitates us to store a large amount of data. If the hard drive is stolen, our data will be exposed at the risk of leakage. In this article, we will talk about how to password protect an external hard drive.

Content

Part 1: Reasons of Data Breach from Hard Drive

Part 2: How to Password Protect External Hard Drive

Part 3: Summary

Part 1: Reasons of Data Breach from Hard Drive

Situation 1: We store the files in the hard drive. But the drive is unfortunately lost.

Situation 2: We open the hard drive in the computer where spyware has been installed. The files may be stolen by the software.

Situation 3: Some employees take the hard drive away or print the files out from the hard drive. That can also be a way of data leakage.

Part 2: How to Password Protect External Hard Drive

What we mentioned above are the common scenarios of data breach from an external hard drive. In fact, the professional software can help us avoid these scenarios and protect our external hard drive well. In the followings, we will introduce the welcomed software, Renee SecureSilo and tell you how to encrypt and hide the external hard drive.

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Renee SecureSilo is one of the welcomed encryption software. It is featured as convenience and high security. Users can place the USB files into a private disk, hide them and set a password to protect the external hard drive.

Easy to modify – Users can create a virtual disk and place files into the disk. Users can access data inside immediately and close when unnecessary. Different from compression software like RAR/ZIP/7ZIP, modifying data which is protected with Renee SecureSilo will not waste your time on decompression

Safe – Due to the private virtual disk format and the advanced AES256 encryption technology, it cannot be easily cracked down by the common crackers.

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How to use Renee SecureSilo to password protect an external hard drive:

1. Download and install Renee SecureSilo. Open the software and set a login password.

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2. Click on [Protect USB] > [Protect USB Drive].

3. Select [Create a new portable Silo in my USB Drive].

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4. Edit the new silo and click on [Next] to go on.

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5. Set the silo size.

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6. As the silo is created, we can place the files into the silo and then close to lock. It is noted that you can click the floating window to show the main menu again when you’ve closed the silo.

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7. In the hard drive, we can directly enter the password to open silo.

8. Then, you will see the list of the files.

How to hide files:

1. Renee SecureSilo can hide files, too. Connect the hard drive to the computer and click [Hide Files].

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2. Click on [Hide Files/Folder]. Select the target files in the hard drive.

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3. Set a password for the hidden files. Click [OK].

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4. If you want to stop hiding these files, you should enter into the software and use the correct password to show them again. You cannot see these hidden files if you only set to view the hidden files in Windows Settings.

Part 3: Summary

According to this article, we learn about how to password protect the external hard drive. In our daily life, we usually need to protect our hard drives away from data breach. But our drives are not safe until we encrypt, hide or lock them well.

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