Flash Disk Lock 1.7 ~UPD~

In our daily life, you often use USB flash drives. No matter you are a businessman, an employee, a student, or even a housewife, a USB flash drive and computer can assist you in your routine work. When you are enjoying the convenience of the USB flash drive, you may ignore the security of your device. So how can you protect a flash drive by locking it with simple steps?

In fact, Windows offers you a built-in tool to lock your USB flash drive files. All you need to do is to right-click your USB files and click the encrypt button. Follow the detailed guide below to lock your flash drive.

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Step 6. On the Choose which encryption mode to use screen, select "Compatible mode" and then hit "Next". Then, you reach the final step. Pay attention to some warnings and click "Start encrypting". BitLocker will immediately work and encrypt your flash drive with a password.

Rohos Mini Drive password-protects a USB flash drive by creating a hidden and encrypted partition on the disk. This tool works well whether you possess admin rights on the target computer or not. Besides, it can automatically detect your USB flash drive and sets the properties for the encrypted partition. All you need to do is to provide a password to protect it.

The most recommended way to lock a USB flash drive is using EaseUS LockMyFile. This is a user-friendly USB flash locker, and even a computer novice can handle it. This USB locker can hide, lock, protect, and encrypt files and folders on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Besides, the theory to lock USB drives for USB Security is the most advanced 256-bit on-the-fly encryption technology. Key features of EaseUS LockMyFile are as follows:

Step 2. To lock files or folders on an external device, navigate to the "External Disk" section and then click "Locking File". Next, on the right menu, choose the "Lock File(s)" or "Lock Folder" option.

Now you know how to encrypt a flash drive with a password in Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7. This guide has helped you in locking and protecting your USB sticks. The need for USB security software is growing because such USB drives don't come with any reliable security algorithms. If you're worried about your USB stick corrupting and result in data loss, you can back up your USB data in advance.

Usually, I have no problem about this kind of thing, but since this particular USB drive is for work-related purposes, and I'm not sure they understand the concept of boundaries, I'm trying to lock or password-protect my usb drive's name (to "my drive", or something), so I can avoid... unpleasant events.

What this means is that anyone on any system, with administrator privileges on that system, can modify anything on the device, including volume name or anything else. You can lock the MBR or whatever but it's still possible to unlock it.

Things like Bitlocker will prevent reading the data, but can't prevent overwriting or destroying the data by reformatting the drive or attaching the device to a computer running another operating system such as Linux.

EDIT (Nov 11 at 22:20):I've made some tests (and some recalling), and the results are somewhere between strange to inconsistent.I created a VHD with 2 partitions.When I locked the drive it blocked writing to the volumes as well (I was able to write to the volumes, but it if I unplugged and replugged the disk everything would be like before my writing).

1.Set volume 2 as read onlyDiskpart showed that both volumes are read only (but not the disk)Volume 2 is locked properly (no option to change volume label, create new folder or paste)Volume 1 stayed open to writingBoth volumes can't be formattedI put two big files on volume 1 and changed the volume label, explorer indicated the volume is now full and showed the new labelDismounted and remounted the VHDAll changes made to volume 1 have been erased (the VHD file size stayed like before writing)Now both volumes are locked properly (can't write, change label or format)

2.Set volume 2 as read onlyDiskpart showed that both volumes are read only (but not the disk)Volume 2 is locked properly (no option to create new folder or paste)Volume 1 stayed open to writingBoth volumes can't be formattedI put two big files on volume 1 and changed the volume label, explorer indicated the volume is full and showed the new labelI removed the read only flag from volume 2VHD gets resized to the proper sizeDismounted and remounted the VHDAll changes made to volume 1 stayed

3.Set disk as read onlyDiskpart showed that the disk is read only (but not the volumes)Both volumes are blocked to writing, can't change volume label.Formatting is blocked.Dismounted and remounted the VHDDiskpart showed that the disk is not read only (volumes didn't change)Both volumes are writable, and the label can be changed.

Conclusion:In order to block changing the label you must set as readonly the relevant volume.As the tests above shows, setting one volume as readonly set every other volumes that resides on the same disk, but they only take full effect on the other volumes after disconnecting and reconnecting the disk.

I don't see what OS you are using, but if it's Windows 7 or 8 you can use Bitlocker or EFS to encrypt the entire drive or folders and files on them. You could probably use another encryption program to get the same results on a different OS.

EFS will only encrypt folders and files, bitlocker can encrypt the entire drive. The EFS decryption key is tied to user accounts, bitlocker uses certificates. As long as you prevent the user from taking the decryption key or certificate out of the office then the files on the removable drives would only be accessible on computers with the right account or certificate.

- is there any kind of protection between the pad and the usb key itself ? I mean, i did not open the usb key, but I assume there is a kind of encryption between the pad and the stick itself as it sounds like to be glued over a standard flash disk reason of his size.

The manual has instructions to set the device to "always unlocked" mode. After this mode is set (which the manual does state can only be done from an unlocked mode), and you re-lock it, the PIN can be different from the initial PIN, correct?

A: The delay is hen the password is set, or in other words once you enter the pass word you have 15 seconds to confirm it other wise it will not be set, and you have 15 seconds to enter the pass word or it will not unlock. The delay starts when you enable or start the lock/un-lock process.

I was not correct, the device will always give you a 15 second delay before it locks. So if you remove it and insert it with in 15 seconds it should stay unlocked. As long as the green light is blinking when you move the drive it will stay un-locked.

I'd have to view the 15 second window as a security hole via physical social engineering. It makes sense to have a delay long enough where if it falls out of the USB port (unlikely) or gets taken out, only to be put right back in, you don't have to unlock it again (in otherwords it's a good user function feature), but this 15 second window does open up opportunities for unscrupulous people to get access to your info. However, the window would only be opened by fault of the end user, but then this comes back to social engineering forcing said window open.

If it fails in two years we will replace it, the expected life is 3-5 years but will depend how you use it. And if it is locked when the battery fails you can still just plug it into a system and the system will provide the power to activate it.

By security request, I need to set up Ubuntu desktops from my network to not allow the use of flashdrives or USB storage devices. But the USB mouse and keyboard should normally be charged. Is there a simple and effective way to prevent the use of these devices?

Kingston DataTraveler and Kingston IronKey USB flash drives provide on-the-go file storage for photos, music, video and more. They are available in both standard and encrypted security for home, school, office and enterprise organisations.

You say there are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Help! The only way I can get into my computer is via command>r. I assume I need to back up my computer before I do a reinstall. How do I do that. I tried disk utility repair and got 'Invalid node structure', 'Disk full error' and 'Error: disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed up files'. I have a Seagate external hard drive. I cannot get to my desktop at all. Can't reinstall Lion because the HD is locked, although I think I need to back up first if possible. I have tried double clicking the HD in the utilities window and nothing happens. FYI, when starting the computer with no commands I get the apple, the progression bar and then it shuts down. Thanks in advance!

If didnt work buy an external hard disk and connect it to your mac and go to disk utilities and go to ur old hard drive then go to restore ,if the sorce is your hard disk name so thats ok usually its macintosh hd and in the other side destination grab the new hard disk, the new hard disk is gonna erase and copy the old hard disk so you are gonna have a back up ,when it finishes go to ur old drive theb click erase it will work ,you must put it on macOS (journaled) or the first option then just do the same on the first and it will work. be457b7860