Password Protect an External Hard Drive

[Dalton]

Hello all,

I've got an external hard drive with some ... sensitive material on it. I would like to set it up so that you need a password to open the drive. The problem is that my wife is using Windows 7 and I'm on a mac.

Does anyone know of a way to protect the drive but still have it available to both systems?

Thanks,

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

porn?

 

[Liesje]

I would encrypt it if it is sensitive material. Encryption software can also use passwords, or "dongles" (a USB device that has to be connected in order to access the drive).

 

[NotBono]

Download TrueCrypt: TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux

It works great. I use it for my thumb drive.

 

[Liesje]

^ That's what our own IT Security Manager here at work uses.

 

[kramwest1]

Download TrueCrypt: TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux

It works great. I use it for my thumb drive.

Thanks for the link, I'm going to try that out this weekend before I travel.

 

[VintagePunk]

porn?

That was my first thought.

 

[UberBeaver]

Hello all,

I've got an external hard drive with some ... sensitive material on it. I would like to set it up so that you need a password to open the drive. The problem is that my wife is using Windows 7 and I'm on a mac.

Does anyone know of a way to protect the drive but still have it available to both systems?

Thanks,

Tell your wife to stop being a goddamn pussy and a get a mac.

 

[KhanadaRhodes]

Tell your wife to stop being a goddamn pussy and a get a mac.

this.

 

[cobl04]

porn?

no beating around the bush, just straight to the point elfa?

 

[Justin24]

Tell your wife to stop being a goddamn pussy and a get a mac.

Macs suck cause it's apple the new Microsoft!

and I use an ipod

 

[coolian2]

que?

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

no beating around the bush

oh, that's probably on there as well...

Macs suck cause it's apple the new Microsoft!

and I use an ipod

I dare you to make less sense

 

[UberBeaver]

Macs suck cause it's apple the new Microsoft!

and I use an ipod

This sounds like a warning I get when PowerPoint crashes.

 

[kramwest1]

oh, that's probably on there as well...

 

[cobl04]

oh, that's probably on there as well...

vintage?