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How to set a password to a removable hard drive. How to put a password on a hard disk or flash drive: instruction without additional programs

Hello, dear blog readers Website. Nowadays, few people keep important data in paper - mostly used computers, laptops, flash drives and other media.

To lose all this good will be incredibly sorry (backup to us to help), but even more problems may arise from your ingress, stored as a sense of data, in bad hands. And u, there is always something to get used. So, for example, I had when Troyan took the passwords from my FTP client and.

Many, in this regard, the question arises - and how to pass the folder with important data or put a password for the entire computer or at least on the flash drive, so that no one can get access to the contents. Well, in fact, solutions for this problem are a lot and even Windows itself (in the form of Bit Locker) offers options for encryption data, but all this is usually half character and does not guarantee that if necessary, the bypass will not be found.

TrueCrypt program features, reliability and setup

However, there exists (and for a very long time) almost one hundred percently reliable way to pass through anything in the folder, on your computer, flash drive or external hard disk. This program is called. You can deliver a password even to the Windows itself and it will not be able to bypass even if the attacker (or power-holding representatives) will post your hard disk, for absolutely all the information will be securely encrypted.

True, you will need a little more actions than when, but it is worth it, because it will be possible to hack the encrypted data, it will be possible for only the method of thermostectal cryptanalysis (soldering iron inserted into one interesting place), which will be used as you understand, only in very rare cases .

Yes, and not so everything is difficult - TrueCrypt has a simple, intuitive and, which is noteworthy, a fully Russified interface. The main thing will not forget the password from it (or key files), because there are no mechanisms for their recovery.

And the guarantee that there is no "master keys" to the TrojipT, gives the openness of its source code (also applies to the previously described) - for fifteen years of its existence, all vulnerabilities and "black moves" would have already been identified and eliminated.

What is noteworthy, you will not need to put a password for individual folders. The most convenient way to work with TrueCrypt It is to create a container from any file available on your computer with any extension (it will be possible to create it and specifically, for example, info.txt). This is a container and will serve you the most reliable folder in the world, and the complexity of access to it you will determine yourself.

All data within this container will be encrypted and, which is wonderful, they will not be possible to associate with this program - the usual stream of random data. There is an opportunity to create another (secret) container inside this container, then the thermostal cryptanalysis may not give the result. But this will already be relevant only for the narrow circle of users of this program.

In addition, it will be possible using a truck, fully encrypt the entire logical disk (they can be a flash drive) on your computer and put a complex password on it, and to guarantee you still add and key files (choose any objects on the hard disk or media, without specifying the path to which the container or the folder will not succeed).

Well, the most serious way is complete encryption of the entire operating system (or the entire physical hard disk with it). After that, when booting a computer, you will first boot the TrueCrypt manager with a suggestion to enter the password you set.

Although you can confuse potential attackers and do not output any invitations about entering Password or write that an incorrigible error has arisen so that you don't even try to dig further.

And for particularly serious cases, it is even possible to download the secret operating system, which will be hidden inside the fake OS. Which one will boot - will depend on the password entered at the start of the computer. Maybe it looks paranoid, but there are cases when only this option can guarantee the security of data storage. If you do not have paranoia, then this does not mean that you do not follow.

One important point. Trucript program does not just allow you to put a password to the file, folder or full PC - it on the fly encrypts all the data, And with the correct input of Password or specify key files - on the summer, this data decrypts.

At the same time, cryptostic encryption algorithms are used, which can even be combined (double and even triple). Yes, it can slightly slow down your work with data (it is not noticeable on modern PC), but it will make them at the present confidential.

Last time, the TrueCrypt version has 7.1a number and can be installed on operating systems with Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. Download It was used to be from the official site before, but now the developers have moved under the BitLocker wing (microsoft) and the download link disappeared. I use the version 7.1a now, which you can download on this link.

Wizard will allow you to select the type of installation of two program options: Install and Extract ( normal or portableWhen all the distribution files simply unpack the folder you specify).

In the case of a portable installation of the Trupport, you can avoid advertising that you use the encryption program on your computer and can be saved folders, files or partitions:

The portable version of the program can be completely stored on the flash drive, so that you absolutely do not leave any traces. However, only the full version will allow you to fully encrypt the computer's logic discs (including flash drives) or put a reliable password to the computer by encrypting the system partition.

Personally, I am pleased with the use of encrypted container files, so I do not need to fully install TrueCrypt. If you are going to pass the system partition with the operating system, use the Install installation option, but before the encryption is started, without relying on any, be sure to remove the image from the system, for example, the same acronis.

Russifier for Trojpt. You can take from this page and unpack the files enclosed in the archive to the directory with the program. Run the program and select "SETTINGS" - "LANGUAGE" from the top menu to select the Russian language in the window that opens:

What is noteworthy, Russification affects not only the program interface, but also translates to russian language TrueCrypt Guidewhich will be available to you from the top menu (Help - user manual). The information in it is set out extremely in detail and comprehensively, so I will not describe all the possibilities in this article (and I could not at all desires), but I just move you to this remarkably folio.

I will tell only about how to put a password for a folder or, in other words, create a file container (encrypted folder), where it is possible to ponaky all sorts of softener, which will preferably hide from prying eyes. Well, as well as how to put a password for a flash drive so that this program will automatically start with it to automatically start with it and offered to enter the password to the encrypted container (folder).

In TrueCrypt settingsIn which you can get from the top menu by selecting "Settings" - "Parameters", you can set the parameters of automatic dismounting of containers (encrypted folders), after a certain time or on a specific event, as well as ask to clean the cache password when you exit:

Setting, forcing the TRUCRIPT in the background, allows you to work to autoranity, as well as allows you to use hotkeys when working with this program that can be configured in the corresponding menu item (hotkeys).

If your activity implies the need for instant unmounting all open pasteral foldersYou can hang this action on hot keys:

Let's first answer the question - how to create an encrypted folder (File container) to which we will deliver a complex password (and in the incoming the key file, so for sure) and we can connect it as an ordinary logical disk in your operating system. Not quite clear? Well, then let's in order.

How to put a reliable password for your computer folder

In the TrueCRYPT window, find the "Create Tom" button or select Tomas from the top menu - "Create a New". As a result, you will come to the first step of the Wizard of creating a new volume (a sauna folder that will live within the noticeable file you have chosen for this purpose):

Actually, this is the first option. The second one will allow you to encrypt any logical disk, both stationary and removable (pass the flash drive or external carrier). Well, and the third option is for those who want, for example, put one big greasy password on your computer. Probably it will be a good option for a laptop that can be lost or stolen much more likely than a stationary computer.

The second version of the program offered to us the TrojipT may need, probably, few users, but nevertheless. We simply complicate nothing at the "Next", as a result of which we are puzzled by the problem creating or searching for a future container (encrypted folder):

The best file that will then serve as a container for Tom, create yourself. To do this, you can register the path to a non-existent object and it will be created, and it will be possible to create a file-pacifier in advance or nadubat somewhere unnecessary trash.

It is important to understand one moment - this file will already cease to be such in its general understanding, because in fact it will turn into a folder on which we will deliver a difficult password and will be ready to fill it with super secretal data. File is best to hide deeper among the likes.

Now it came to turn decide with the encryption mechanismwhich will be applied on the fly to the saved folder (encrypt and decrypt its content when entering the correct password):

For our needs, the option proposed by default is quite suitable, but you are free to choose any of the available encryption types, including even double and triple, for when working with containers (volumes or other words, pallproof folders), the reduction of the speed you will not feel.

But in the case of encrypting the entire system disk of your laptop using TrueCrypt (installation to access the password computer), encryption rate on the fly May be critical. Try to estimate it by pressing the "Test" button on the above screenshot and feel the drop in the speed when encryption type complicates:

Without having to complicate, it is not necessary to complicate, especially when passing the partition of the hard disk partition with Windows on a weak computer. In most cases, we leave everything by default and click "Next".

At this step, the wizard in the Trojipte offer you set the size of your future folder with password (container) Based on the most accessible place available for this:

I think the size is worth choosing with a margin. Next you will be offered to come up with the main password to access this very folder. For those who use Keepass, it will be better to use the generator of the complex sequences of the symbols built into it, which will be almost impossible to hack by the generation method.

It will not be superfluous to add one or more (in case of exacerbation of the beginning of paranoia) key files. For this purpose, absolutely any objects on your computer, flash drive or any other external carrier can be used. You can use the key to key, but these are still rare cases.

The key objects themselves will not be damaged (remain readable), however, it is best to choose them among many other similar (for example, a graphic file from a folder with your photo in JPG format) so that the enemy does not guessed. Then be sure to copy these key objects to another hard disk or flash drive, so as not to remain at the broken trough in case of their failure, damage or accidental removal or change.

Personally, I have chosen for myself as the main backup location - online services (file-hosting). For example, or. This repeatedly reduces the likelihood of loss and immediately. Data of such programs as a Trojipte and Cypas I keep in them necessarily. IMHO.

If you are too lazy to memorize a difficult password, then its field can be left empty, but select only key file (or a few pieces), the location of which on your computer or flash drive will be easy to remember. However, it will weaken the protection of your inquired folders in TrueCrypt, but it will increase the convenience of using them.

In the next step, the folder wizard wizard with the password will be prompted to select the type of file system in this container (if you plan to store objects of more than four gigs there, choose NTFS):

There you can put a tick in the "dynamic" field so that the size of this container would change as it is filling. However, if there is no free space on the hard disk, then your container may be damaged, so I prefer not to use this feature, but create an encrypted folder of fixed size.

Next, drive the mouse on this window, thereby increasing the cryptoposticity of encrypting the future-in-safe and click on the "Position" button. The markup will take some time depending on the size you specified to him and from the speed of your computer.

All so we created a secret folder and put on it the most reliable password (and key file) as a lock. Now it remains just learn to use it.

How to open a soldered in TrueCrypt folder

In the main program window, you will see all the letters of logical disks that are not currently involved on your computer. You can connect our secret folder with a password on any letter to you. To do this, click the mouse in this letter, and then click on the button "File":

Find the container that we with the help of magic and the capabilities of the Trojipte turned into a secret folder. The path to it will appear in the area "Tom", after which we will need to enter it by clicking on the button "Mount":

In the window that opens, enter the Passvord (and specify the key file using the corresponding button, if you used it), and then click OK:

As a result of these shamans in the main TrueCrypt window, in front of the letter of the logical disk, a record of the logical disk will appear, meaning that the entire contents of the folder on which we put a password are open to view and work with it:

Now it remains only to open this disc in the conductor or to get started with the objects in this secret directory:

When to work with documents and files from the secret folder, do not apply press the button "Unmount" In the Trucripte program window:

Well, and also do this text to the top to make the necessary settings for automatic unmounting (including with hot keys) in case you forget to do it manually. I would not constantly keep a salary folder, I would not, because in this case the whole point of its creation is lost.

How to put a reliable password for a computer in the Trojip

Now let's see how you can put a password on a Windows computer running through our wonderful program. As I mentioned, the Trojipte allows you to encrypt either only a logical partition where you have the operating system installed, or the entire hard disk is entirely (from which the OS is loaded).

You can also deliver an additional password to download the secret operating system, but you already read about it in the program guide, which after Russification, by the way, will also be opened in Russian.

Attention! Before implementing the system partition encryption described below, be sure to back up your OS, for example, with Akronis, for I don't want to see your curses in the comments and read various curses in my address. The program works reliably (encrypts in the background), but no one is insured against the circumstances.

Encrypt the entire system partition from a stationary computer may be useful if you use a huge number of counterfeit software and at the same time you have risks to check the competent authorities.

Well, and if you have a laptop that you constantly carry with you, then it will be very desirable to fully encrypt his hard disk to ensure that if you lose or theft, do not worry about possible leaks of your confidential information.

TrueCrypt not only allows put a reliable password on your computerBut it is completely encrypted (turns into digital garbage) all the data on it (on the system disk, and the remaining logic disks can be encoded separately, if necessary).

If the ordinary chest with the lock can be opened by knocking down this very castle or breaking through its wall, then encryption will be similar to magical act, which will turn the chest with all its contents in nothing, and then after entering the key (spell-off) will return everything to "how it was" .

So, proceed. To begin with, as usual, you will need to click the " Create volume"Or choose from the top menu Points" Toma "-" Create a new one ":

However, now we choose the last option, allowing you to pass our computer. By the way, so that this action becomes available to you, TrueCrypt must be fully installed, not just unpacked in the folder as the version of the version (read about it at the beginning of the article).

In the next wizard step, we will be offered to choose from: either encrypt the system section or the entire hard disk on which it lives, or go rummage and try to create a hidden OS. We will choose the first option, for the second one for the present it is useful for a very small number of users with a real or imaginary threat to the application of the thermostal method of cryptoanalysis:

Next, you ask the question: Do you want to encrypt only one logical partition on which the OS is installed, or you wish to encrypt the entire hard disk (if there are still logical partitions except the partition from the OS):

If on your laptop, for example, just one hard disk and it is not divided into logical partitions at all (there is only a C drive), you can safely choose the second option (thus you put the password immediately to the entire computer).

If the hard drive is one on the laptop, but it is divided into partitions, it will be better to choose again the second option so that any data does not get a stranger during the loss or the edge of the laptop. Well, if your computer is stationary, with a bunch of hard drives, I don't even know what to advise. Think yourself.

After loading the bios, but before starting the operating system, the bootloader will be booked, created by the Trucripte, and it can assume the role of the download manager so that you can choose which OS download. When choosing a salary Operation, you will need to enter a password from the computer.

In the next step of the castle layer on your computer, you will be asked about the encryption type that you want to choose (see screenshots above B).

As I have already mentioned a little higher in the text - be careful with the choice of double and special triple encryption on weak computers and, in any case, click on the "Test" button and check what happens exactly on your hardware:

Further in the same way as when the folder is passing through the TrueCrypt, we must come up with a password to access the computer and, if you wish, this case can be enhanced by key files (read more likely above the text):

Now you will need to take the mouse within the windows that opened to increase the cryptic resistance of the encryption method used, after which you will show part of the code created by cryptoclides:

The following is a very important point - choosing a place on your computer, where it will be recorded disk image to restore the damaged truck loader. You will have to later (preferably not postponing in a long box, and in the next step of the master you will learn about it) record a disk from this image, which can help you launch a computer in case of force majeure circumstances:

After recording the recovery disk on a suitable disc, you can move to the next wizard. True, TrueCrypt will definitely check the correct recovery disk recording (it will need to be inserted into the drive, although you can deceive the master using the drive emulation program) and will not allow you to perform further actions at your own risk.

Now it will be necessary to decide how important for you will be eliminated by all possible ways to restore the data of your system section will be eliminated, for such an opportunity always exists if specialists will be taken and torture your hard disk. True, if he recruit all the BelibraD for several times in a row, thereby lost all the remnants of unencrypted information, then the specialists will remain with anything.

In most cases, it will be redundant and you can leave the default option:

Next you will be asked check the bootloader (Press the "Test" button created by the Trucripte, but still without password and encryption partition. When this pre-testing is completed, you will be offered to go to the real encryption of the system partition, which will be performed in the background until you use a computer for the purpose.

Although, in order to avoid excesses, it will be better to do it at night or at any time when a PC is not needed for several hours. Now with each boot of the OS to you you have to enter a passwordwhich you put on guard of the security of your computer:

All other information on working with an encrypted system section, read in the detailed user manual, which, as I have already mentioned, was quite well translated into Russian. There you will find a lot of nuances and useful trifles that have not found a place in this publication.

How to pass the USB flash drive and add TrueCrypt to autorun

There are two options to put a reliable and complex password on the media using a turboript. First, it will be possible encrypt the entire flash drive as a computer logical diskUsing the second option (encode the unwatching section / disk) from the first step of the "Wizard of creating new volumes":

However, this option has one essential drawback - it will not be possible set up TrueCrypt autorun when inserting a flash drive to a computer. But this is very convenient when the encryption program itself is recorded on the media, and at the same time it will start in the insertion of the device in the PC, and also mounts the desired volume (saved folder) from the same flash drive, but you will only just enter the password in the open window.

We simply add a file to a USB flash drive, which will serve us as described slightly above the container, that is, in the "Master of New Tov" window, select the first option and follow all the steps in detail described in the second section of this article:

So uncomply create a saved folder on our flash drive. If its size is less than the size of the carrier, then you can add something to it to distract attention. Although, if you do the autorun program of the Truppt from Flashki, then all these precautions will already be anything.

Now we need register TrueCrypt in autoload And so that the program is automatically mounted (encrypted folder with super secret data). To do this, select "Service" - "Setting up a portable disk" from the top menu of the TrojipT

In the window that opens, click the top button "Overview" and find your flash drive, the path to which is registered in the next form:

Just below rearrange a tick in the field "Tom Automotion in TrueCrypt", And even lower, using the "Browse" button, specify the path to the container file (Pastened directory on the media) and click on the "Create" button. After some thought, you will pay a message about the successful creation of a portable disk:

Unfortunately, due to the dominance of viruses on computers and their bad habits, spread by prescribing themselves in the flash drive, this very autoloading on many computers simply turn off.

Therefore, for mounting the volume, which is stored on the carrier, and autorun from it Trucripte It can be created in the root of the flash drive file with extension. CMD (for example, SMONT.CMD) and add the following contents to it:

TrueCrypt \\ TrueCrypt.exe / Q Background / E / M RM / V "TEXT.TXT"

Where instead of text.txt you need to specify the name of the container file (encrypted secret folder on the flash drive) or to it. When you start this file from a flash drive (double click), you will see a black command line window and TrueCrypt window with an invitation to enter a password:

If you enter it correctly, the main program window will open with information that the grooved folder from the flash drive has been successfully mounted on the first of the free letters of logical disks in your OS.

At the same time, the Windows Explorer window opens with the contents of this newly mounted logical disk or, in other words, with our super secret data wears on the flash drive:

Well, you can also add a razmont.cmd file to the media with the following content:

TrueCrypt \\ TrueCrypt.exe / Q / D

He may need you when you want to remove the USB flash drive. The start of this file is unmounted (will extell) the secret data from the grooved folder from the flash drive and you can quietly pull out this flasher itself from the computer. Well, as if, on this and that's it. Skullo it happened ...

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And install it. Run the program. In the main window, click on the necessary hard disk to install the password. Right-click on the name of the hard disk and select "Set the download protection".

Invent the password you want to use. The scale will be shown below, which displays the quality scale of the protective code. So that the password is more difficult, the best use of numbers and characters.

You repeat the input and if necessary, enter the prompt for it (if you are afraid to forget). To add a prompt, you should click on the blue "Tip to Password" string.

The program is good because it can be additionally used hidden protection mode.

After all the manipulations produced, click OK to save them.

TrueCrypt.

Download and install a free program. Run it. In the main menu "Volumes", click "CREATE NEW VOLUME".

You will display the data encryption wizard on the screen. Press "Encrypt the System Partition or Entire System Drive" to set the password to the hard disk with the operating system. Press "Next".

Specify the type of encryption. It can be ordinary or hidden. It is best to use the usual option - "Standard TrueCrypt Volume". Click on "Next".

In the next window, select the entire disk encryption or only the system partition. Press "Next". To set the password to the entire hard disk, click "Encrypt the Whole Drive".

Then you will need to specify the number of Operations that are installed on HDD. If only one operating system is on the computer, then click on the "Single-Boot", and then "Next".

The list will fall out, in which the encryption algorithm should be selected. Ideally, the "AES" should be applied along with the "RIPMED-160" hashing, but you can choose any of the proposed. Click on "Next".

Invent the password and confirm it in the required field. It is better that it consists of numbers, letters, characters. Length should not be more than 64 characters.

After receiving the system with all the necessary information, the key is generated. Creating a password for hard disk will be completed.

Turn off the PC and turn it on again. When the black and white boot screen appears, click on the button to go to the BIOS. The button will differ depending on the model of the motherboard. After the main BIOS window appears, go to the "Security" tab (use the arrows on the keyboard).

How to protect the external hard drive password

What should I do to protect the external password carriers yourself?
Data protection on such devices is permissible by using special utilities. Searching on the Internet, I found that the most effective and lungs were TrueCrypt, Folder Guard, Disk Password Protection and Cryptainer + Decypherit. Find and download them will not be difficult. My task is to explain to you, * How to protect the external password hard disk * after installing data utilities.
Before the process is better so that the external hard drive is empty. So it will work faster and there will be no fears of data loss in case of erroneous of your actions. If you need to pass the device with data, I advise you to copy them to a computer.

Now consider using each of the utilities in more detail.
TrueCrypt.

What do:
1) launch TrueCrypt;
2) Click "Create Tom";
3) choose "encrypt a non-system section", click further;
4) choose "Normal Tom", then further;
5) Press the "Device ..." button, we find and click our device and click OK;
6) After the volume creation mode opens. We choose the first item, if they cleaned, or copied their information to another carrier. If they did not take care of this, choose the second point and wait for a longer time than in the first case;
7) in the encryption settings window, we leave everything as it is and click Next;
8) Now we specify the cipher of 20 characters and symbols;
9) A window formatting window appeared. To file. Syst. We choose NTFS, the rest do not change and click to place;
10) Encryption began. Completion time depends on the volume of the drive and the presence of data on it. So pure outdoor disk on 1 TB is processed for more than an hour;
11) Upon completion, click OK and Exit. We are thrown into the main menu, where you need to assign to that free letter and then choose our disk;
12) OK / Mount / Code / OK.

That's all - the device was able to protect the password.

Folder Guard

After it starts, a window appears in which the connected devices are visible. Click on your connected media with the left mouse button and start setting the cipher. Everything is simple enough. Click the left button "Block the password" and enter the invented numbers, characters in the top string. And in the bottom we repeat them. Then confirm by pressing OK in subsequent windows. At the end you will be asked to save the settings. You save them and close everything.

Next, when trying to open the hard disk, a request will appear for entering the code. And when you close it, pops up the window with a question to leave it classified. If you leave, then you will enter the cipher at each opening. If not, then the hard disk will turn out to be in public access and in order to waste it will have to undergo a re-order procedure.

Cryptainer + Decypherit.

As usual, run the installed Cryptainer. We see pop-up tips in the windows, where they are asked to enter parameters for encryption. We do everything they ask. Indicate the location of the encrypted device, its size and password. Further, we get acquainted with the usefulness of the program that appear in new windows and suggest * how to pass the external HDD * yourself. After you specify the path to our disk and click Load.

So we encrypted the outer carrier. With this utility, you can pass through anything even separately: sound, video, text files, etc.

If there is no Cryptainer program to view the data, the DecyPherit utility and your previously entered secret code are needed.

Disk Password Protection.

Like the previous utilities, too, we also install on your computer and run. In the window that opens, choose what we want to hide from the unnecessary people and launch a "master of protection", noting the "Master" and "Protection". Then we specify the type of protected hard disk and continue by pressing "Next".

The following actions must be performed in accordance with requests that appear in new windows. After in a special form, you need to specify the invented complex code and confirm it with a repeat set in another line.

Also, the program makes it possible to install the hidden protection mode. To do this, after entering the password, you should put a label of this mode and click "Next". The last step and everything is protected from outsiders.

Personal opinion

If these programs seem too awesome for you and already tired of searching, download and install a lot of encryption utilities, I propose an alternative to your suffering - HDD with built-in encryption. He does everything himself: encrypts and decrypts data. And do not need to install anything. However, there are also cons. If the controller refuses or other electronics, there will no longer be chances to transfer data from the device to another media.

Set the password to your external hard drive - This is the right thing. All information should be personal, and no one should take advantage of it. So you are on the right track. Choose your favorite program and protect your data. Just do not forget to write down the invented password somewhere. Memory can sometimes lend and everything will be not affordable even for you.

Sometimes many users are interested in the question - how can you put a password on the hard disk? First of all, it is interested in more professional users who want to protect their computer from unauthorized persons. At the last time, this question was also relevant for simple users who are very worried about their system, information on it and any ways are trying to protect. Basically, the password on the hard disk is intended to not give access to fraudsters or other users to master your system and run a hard disk, and also receive information from it and use it for your own purposes. There are quite a lot of ways and options how to put a password on a hard disk, but the most relevant and most popular is to install a password to the hard disk using the BIOS.

First you need to determine what BIOS is.
BIOS is a specialized software that is absolutely on any computer in a constant working condition.

This software is engaged in testing the device, updating the system, as well as downloads. BIOS is a very widespread destination for a PC and a sought-after program. In this software, a large number of the most relevant and necessary firmware are collected, which allow you to set up the entire system unit, create the operating system loading and improve the important parameters of your personal computer. Therefore, it is desirable to understand this software to any user, at least at the amateur level and know small settings, as well as the possibilities of installing and reset passwords.

Hard disk password with bios

By installing a password on a hard drive, more professional users use that BIOS. This allows you to maximize the system, get the best return and disable the password at any time. This procedure can be performed completely on any computer, including a laptop, netbook and other devices. If suddenly somehow you forgot your hard drive password, then you will not be able to load the operating system and it will fail for your computer, but in any situation, thanks to the biosa - any password from the hard disk can be removed.
How to put a password on a hard disk via BIOS?
For this you need:

Before the user, the BIOS itself will appear. Now the user needs to take a little different with the functions and tabs of the bios.

To control BIOS, you must use the buttons - arrows ahead, back, left and right.

In BIOS, there are such tabs:


It is the user to be needed - the Security tab, where he can see the installation of passwords on the BIOS and the hard drive


It is in this tab that you can put a password to the hard disk and save the data when exit. After that, on your computer, a password on a hard disk will appear, which will need to be prescribed at any input and booting Windows.

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A hard disk password is a necessary tool for people who worry about their information and want to hide data from unauthorized persons. It is best to put such a password via BIOS, it gives advantage of users in data protection, and also creates the ability to restore the password or turn it off at all. Remember that protecting your data and your computer is the correct and timely solution.

In many cases, modern users of personal computers have the need to protect personal data - if access to the computer has several people and access to it is open if there is an external hard disk with its data. In these cases, it will be a good way out - put a password. In this article, we will consider in detail how to put a password on the hard disk.

Consider work in Windows 7 operating systems maximum, professional and higher.

The first thing to use if necessary, protect your data is to use the BitLocker built-in Windows function, which will definitely protect your disk. To do this, perform a few simple actions:

  • Go to the control panel and find the button "BitLocker disk encryption".
  • In the window that appears, opposite the disk icons that we want to protect, press the "Enable BitLocker" button.
  • In the next window, carefully choose the password removal methods. The simplest is the first - "Using a password to remove the disc lock."
  • You need to select the option of saving a special restoring key that will need to be used if the password suddenly be lost. It is possible that the optimal solution will "save a password to file" and storing the recovery key, for example, in your cloud.
  • If you have installed the Windows 8 operating system and above, there will be a choice of several more points: "Specify a part of the disk for encryption" and "select encryption mode for use".

The disk encryption will begin and after it is completed, access to the disk can only be obtained after entering the password you specified. An image of the lock appears on the image of the encrypted disk in the conductor.

When using the BitLocker function, you need to be extremely attentive, since having lost the password and the recovery key, you can work with this disk only after it is full of formatting, in which, accordingly, all data will be deleted. You still need to remember that when reinstalling operating systems in the event that you have not decrypted the disk before starting the reinstallation or did not copy the certificate in advance to a replaceable hard disk, you will no longer be able to access your data!

Disk protection using third-party applications

In addition to the BitLocker function, which really encrypts data on the disk, there are applications of third-party developers, which can be encrypted your disk and close the disk without real encryption, and using the password function.

You can use programs such as Disk Password Protection, LockNGO or Folder Lock.

With the help of various programs and utilities, access is fully closed for third-party users to the disk or to part of the data. The main thing, when choosing and using such programs, carefully refer to the preservation of your passwords and explore all the possible proposed disk unlocking capabilities, so that it does not lose access to them.

Disk protection using archiver

There is also the ability to close your data using any archiver that can archive not only part of the data, but also a fully hard drive. For example, WinRAR will perfectly cope with this task. To do this, in the Explorer menu, click on the icon of the disk with the right mouse button, then in the drop-down menu, find the "Add to Archive" item.

Before starting archiving, click on the Set Password button and enter the password in a new window. Then start archiving. After the data is laid in the archive, closed with a password, the source files can be deleted, and then all new data to add to the archive under password. But you need to consider that with such closing data, file lists and folders are visible, as they are shown in the archiver window before entering the password.

What happens in the end? If a hard disk with personal data really needs to be closed from prying eyes, then the firmware is the firmware encryption system BitLocker. And once again - when working with passwords and encryption, you need to be extremely attentive, since it is possible to loss of all your own data. Do not lose your passwords!