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July 11, 2007 - 5:56pm
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jester48
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Password protecting an entire drive?

Is there any free software that makes me input a password before I can even access the jumpdrive?

Because I keep my instant message logs and important files on mine, and while I protect the individual files, I'd like keep the entire drive unusable without some master password.

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July 11, 2007 - 10:42pm
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I think that you can encrypt

I think that you can encrypt the whole drive but then I don't think you would be able to use portable apps. Is that right everyone?
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July 12, 2007 - 9:43am
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If you made a TrueCrypt container that covers like 99% of the

drive than yes, and you can still use PortableApps (I do this all the time). Since you can mount the container as a drive!

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July 12, 2007 - 3:25pm
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Seems pretty good, but would

Seems pretty good, but would I need the software on every machine that I take the USB drive to? It just seems that the way they're decrypting the data would require their software to be installed.

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July 13, 2007 - 5:29am
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No

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July 13, 2007 - 6:21am
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Quite a short answer but

Quite a short answer Wink but true somehow.

Have a look here for more infos

https://portableapps.com/node/7923
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/TCExplorer.asp

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