Ok, here are my thoughts.
Thoughts back would be even better 
1. You lose your USB Device.
2. You have help!*1 on the device.
3. You never get a phone call.
So you have to go and get a new pen.
How do we make this totaly/only your device.
Here is how I think (If I could do it all!) my USB pen would run.
1. autorun.inf loads check_if_i_am_me.xxx
2. check_if_i_am_me.XXX checkes your system for username / system name
if system name / username is correct from within program then continue to load portableapps.xxx
else baloontip message saying "If you are not %username% click here."
3. Click baloontip and it take you to a small app that gives you infomation on how to send it back & loada its_not_me.xxx
4. its_not_me.xxx locks device so you can not delete or format device only unload device.
*1
http://www.dailycupoftech.com/have-your-lost-usb-drive-ask-for-help/
http://www.dailycupoftech.com/usb-drive-splash-screen/
Thoughts please people.
Can this be done?
This is a small personal project and I will be posting my log here.
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I'm sure it could be done, but what if you use your USB drive on multiple computers? "check_if_i_am_me.xxx" would have to check for a whole list of profiles, and even then, if you end up on a PC that you don't usually use, you would run into the problem of it not recognizing that you really are you.
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
Well, to me, I think a secure version of PAM where the drive is *locked* until and unless PAM is running and has passed a authorization code.
So, you stick in the USB drive, Pam pops up, asks for a UID and PW, unlocks the drive and runs the menu. At this point it's available to Windows as a drive. If PAM closes or is never started, then the drive is locked and unavailable to Windows.
I'm not sure how to make this happen, but this scenario would be the cleanest and easiest to use.
Michael D. Shook
But I use this for my pc and at work only, if I go to a clients home (not often, but I do), then it will just be a ballon tip that I have to close, OR on the baloon tip click run an application to decrypt the data.
I was giong to try this on my w880i phone, but I would cry if it went pete tong.
Impossible without special hardware in the drive.
Vintage!
Never could get the 'help' to work.
How about this..
Say you have a piece of code that runs when it auto lunches. This code checks to see if theres a connection with internet access. If found, it calls home. At the home end it replays with a simple sleep command. All is good, goto sleep.
Now say you lost the drive and you don't hear from anyone. You can tall that it's been calling home. Change the command from sleep to activate. Now a popup banner shows up asking for the drive back with a clock counting backwards.
Could be done....
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Did you know that the entire operating system use to fit on a 5 1/4" floppy disk!
Yea I have a been talking to tim about the 'help' quite fun.
PAM.
Now thats intresting, but how would you load PAM if its on the inactive USB pen, and how would the device know that its inactive, that just sounds impossible.
I like the sleep command.
More comments on that one please.