Can I put a password on a USB Flash Drive?

tradetime

10past6 wrote: »

Tomorrow I'll check what I've managed to save, sort them out, and then I'll clarify with you how to keep 2 individual records.

Sleep well, I know I will now :rotfl:

No worries, glad you were able to recover some.

10past6

Hi

Well it took sometime to sort out, but I managed to retrive around 50% of my documents, although I've lost some important documents, I'm happy with what I managed to retrive

Davesnave

10past6 wrote: »

Hi

Well it took sometime to sort out, but I managed to retrive around 50% of my documents, although I've lost some important documents, I'm happy with what I managed to retrive

Good to hear that all was not lost. It was quite a drama following your attempts to retrieve your files yesterday!

As I've said, I keep flash drive back-ups of a few things which I really couldn't do without, but which I don't want a thief to get at, like my bank details. I love the way banks tell you not to write anything down, then give you a username like EV347T14VTR !!

I can sincerely recommend that Cryptainer program for storing sensitive Word documents, on the computer and off it.

I've also been thinking about backing-up my entire computer in case of hard drive failure rather than anything dramatic. The Acronis program you spoke of is one program that will do this, but 'Which Computing' recommends Norton Save & Restore as being the easiest solution, or Norton Ghost, if people are more technically minded, which I'm not. They are more expensive, but Which say they are the only two their testers found relatively easy to use. I would couple that program with a basic 500gb external drive, or maybe a bigger one if I decided to keep video on it too.

Like you, I pre-date the digital age by quite a margin and, although I ended up teaching children with computers, I never received the basic training that I should have had. I suppose the best I can say is that we have come quite a long way since the days of loading up a program on an old Acorn machine using a cassette tape, then having it do something rather unremarkable that could have been acieved with paper & pencil in half the time!

buglawton

Tut tut, the password to EV347T14VTR was too easy to guess. You really must do summat about that overdraft

Davesnave

buglawton wrote: »

Tut tut, the password to EV347T14VTR was too easy to guess. You really must do summat about that overdraft

What? You mean 'Bankrupt62'?:rotfl:

tradetime

I've also been thinking about backing-up my entire computer in case of hard drive failure rather than anything dramatic. The Acronis program you spoke of is one program that will do this, but 'Which Computing' recommends Norton Save & Restore as being the easiest solution, or Norton Ghost, if people are more technically minded, which I'm not. They are more expensive, but Which say they are the only two their testers found relatively easy to use. I would couple that program with a basic 500gb external drive, or maybe a bigger one if I decided to keep video on it too.

As I said in an earlier post, if you have either Seagate or Maxtor hdd installed in your pc, a limited version of Acronis TI 10 is available free fro the Segate site

10past6

Hi Dave

Davesnave wrote: »

Good to hear that all was not lost. It was quite a drama following your attempts to retrieve your files yesterday!

Dear oh dear, what a performance it was, but without doubt, had tradetime not dedicated so much time helping me, I'd never had made any progress.

Davesnave wrote: »

I can sincerely recommend that Cryptainer program for storing sensitive Word documents, on the computer and off it

I'm going to look at that programme Dave you mention above, one question, could I use it to lock a folder within "My Documents" AND on my USB?

Davesnave wrote: »

Like you, I pre-date the digital age by quite a margin and, although I ended up teaching children with computers, I never received the basic training that I should have had. I suppose the best I can say is that we have come quite a long way since the days of loading up a program on an old Acorn machine using a cassette tape, then having it do something rather unremarkable that could have been acieved with paper & pencil in half the time!

All this techie stuff Dave is way above my head, to some extent my age is against me, I kinda get embarrassed asking the younger generation for advice, that being said, my biggest problem is being afraid "To Investigate" a simple explanation of that is look what happened when I lost my documents, I'm from the "old School" if it's not broke, don't fix it

Davesnave

Originally Posted by Davesnave
I can sincerely recommend that Cryptainer program for storing sensitive Word documents, on the computer and off it

I'm going to look at that programme Dave you mention above, one question, could I use it to lock a folder within "My Documents" AND on my USB?

Yes, I tried putting it on a USB stick and it's easy. But I'd start by putting it on your computer first & then experiment, using a test document, not your most critical files till you are sure of it.

When I want my sensitive Word docs, I just click on the Cryptainer icon and the loading screen comes up, I type in the password & there are all the files. As I said, even my tech-phobic wife can do it. That's on the C drive (main computer)

As regards the mobile Cryptainer, I have just managed to send a Word document over to it into what I called 'Vault 1,' then I shut it all down (had a problem there because it wouldn't let me do that till I'd closed Word.) I then browsed back to the USB, started it from 'My Computer' and, hey presto, after I put the password in I could reach my document again. In other words the USB is running as Drive J and, after I click on the symbol labelled 'Vault 1' and put in the password it loads up the Cryptainer, which is running as Drive K. Presumably, you could have Vault 2, 3, 4, 5, etc but I'm a bit short of time and I've not read the instructions today at all. I guess that means it's intuitive, or I'm daft, or both!

I must dash to make dinner, but I don't think you will have any problems with Cryptainer if you read the notes etc and just play around with some disposable test files. Whether it will give you large enough capacity is something only you can judge. I don't have a lot that I need to protect, just Word files.

Good luck!

Davesnave

tradetime wrote: »

As I said in an earlier post, if you have either Seagate or Maxtor hdd installed in your pc, a limited version of Acronis TI 10 is available free fro the Segate site

I'm probably getting a Maxtor, so I'll look at that, but after reading the Which report, I'm tending towards paying for the Norton, just to make my life easy. But you're right, it ain't money saving! (Nor is 'Which Computing' come to that. I shall cancel it soon, as it is full of 'padding.' Had a free trial, though.)

10past6

Hi Dave

Davesnave wrote: »

I'd start by putting it on your computer first & then experiment, using a test document, not your most critical files till you are sure of it

Done that, I can't believe how easy it was to set up compared to the agro I had with the other programme :mad:

Davesnave wrote: »

When I want my sensitive Word docs, I just click on the Cryptainer icon and the loading screen comes up, I type in the password & there are all the files. As I said, even my tech-phobic wife can do it. That's on the C drive (main computer)

I'm going to figure out now how to put a password on the USB :rotfl: