Learning how to password protect USB drive systems – meaning those little pocket thumb or flash drives – would be a good skill to have handy whenever the time comes to transfer data from your PC or laptop to these little drives. It is a good way of keeping others from accessing all of the data you might have stored on it. So take a bit of time to learn how to encrypt one of them.
The first thing to ensure is that whatever USB drive you intend on protecting via a password and encryption is empty. Once you’ve made sure of that, take the software program you’ve found – because it’s a bit inconvenient to go in and manually encrypt and password protect each file on the USB drive – and then download the program to the USB. Click “select device” and then click “OK.”
