Can I put a password on a USB Flash Drive?

tradetime

I just follow directions none of it makes sense to me I'm afraid, I think I'm to old to understand anything to do with technology

LOL this tech stuff just takes a little time, it's really not that bad when you get familiar.
We take it slowly one step at a time.

Ok when you put the USB in you will not be asked for a password, the USB is not encrypted, only the file called "Personal" is encrypted. It is known as a volume, imagine it as a tiny drive 1024KB in size

Double click the icon TrueCrypt this will open the TrueCrypt UI

10past6

tradetime wrote: »

Ok when you put the USB in you will not be asked for a password, the USB is not encrypted, only the file called "Personal" is encrypted. It is known as a volume, imagine it as a tiny drive 1024KB in size

OK, I think I'm understanding it, this will confirm if i am or not:

So, if I drag any folder into that blue icon (Truecrypt) only then will it ask me for a password, is that correct.

If so, which one of the 2 blue truecrypt icons do I drag the folder into?

tradetime

10past6 wrote: »

OK, I think I'm understanding it, this will confirm if i am or not:

So, if I drag any folder into that blue icon (Truecrypt) only then will it ask me for a password, is that correct.

If so, which one of the 2 blue truecrypt icons do I drag the folder into?

If you drag "Personal" onto the Icon "TrueCrypt" you will be asked for a password that file is the only thing encrypted

10past6

OK, so how do I encrypt other folders within that drive (F:)

Do I have to got through set up all again?

tradetime

10past6 wrote: »

OK, so how do I encrypt other folders within that drive (F:)

Do I have to got through set up all again?

To do it that way, I'd have to do some research, as I have never encrypted individual files, may I ask what size your USB is and I will explain step by step how I would do it.

10past6

tradetime wrote: »

To do it that way, I'd have to do some research, as I have never encrypted individual files, may I ask what size your USB is and I will explain step by step how I would do it.

If you don't mind, I could be here till next year and it still wouln't make any sense to me, OK, I have a 4gb USB pen drive.

tradetime

Ok give me 5 mins, am just putting something together for you

tradetime

Ok, sorry had to take care of something

Here we go afraid I' gonna start from the start
First I'd take everything off the USB, move it all to a folder on your desktop or something, make a new one if necessary, just for now.
So your USB when you open it up is empty.

Next I'd double click the TrueCrypt Setup 6.0a.exe that we downloaded from the web. agree the terms and conditions
From this screen select Extract and hit next
Ok this time at the next screen instead of accepting where it wants to place the files, we click "Browse" and select our empty USB drive, hit ok and then Extract.
So now when we open our USB we see this
Ok, double click the TrueCrypt folder
and double click on TrueCrypt. you should then see the UI (user interface)
cont'd next post.

tradetime

Can't upload anymore pictures may have broke the site try another way

On the UI we select "Create Volume"
Which opens the Volume Creation Wizard. ensure "Create File container" is selected and select Next.
Choose Volume Type as Standard TrueCrypt Volume and click next. Now at this sceen hit select and again navigate to your USB. You will see a screen like this, obviously your USB but it will have the TrueCrypt folder.
Now don't select anything here, Just type the name you want to call the file in the empty "File Name" window, where I have typed Personal, probably what you did last time, and hit "Save"
This will take you back to this window which shows the name of your container/volume and it's location (on your USB) Click "Next"

10past6

I'll wait till you finish giving me instructions, then I'll give it a go :A