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May 16

Password Protecting an External Hard Drive

I have a Seagate 1TB external hard drive. Is it possible to password-lock it; so for instance when I plug it in it says "Please enter the password to gain access." - or something like that? Thanks! --Yellow1996 (talk) 23:40, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

TrueCrypt is one option. ¦ Reisio (talk) 23:50, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Some drives have firm-ware locking, as you describe, but the much better, and more compatable option is to use full disc encryption, such as Truecrypt, as Reisio advises. Shadowjams (talk) 05:51, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Looks good! Thanks, guys. :) --Yellow1996 (talk) 01:10, 18 May 2013 (UTC)