[Intrepid781]

People keep stealing my external forms of memory. SD cards, micro SD cards, jump drives, the list goes on and on. I have a 250 gig external hard drive that I have fairly well hidden. I want to put all my stuff on it and make it a shared drive on the network. I have Vista on my desktop which is what that is connected to and 7 on my laptop. Is there any kind of program that would let me put a password on it so you couldn't just hook it up to anything or access it at all without knowing that password? And would I still be able to access it from the network? Honestly I don't even know how to share it as a drive. Please help!

[KStrawn]

Intrepid781, on 03 November 2009 - 02:28 PM, said:

People keep stealing my external forms of memory. SD cards, micro SD cards, jump drives, the list goes on and on. I have a 250 gig external hard drive that I have fairly well hidden. I want to put all my stuff on it and make it a shared drive on the network. I have Vista on my desktop which is what that is connected to and 7 on my laptop. Is there any kind of program that would let me put a password on it so you couldn't just hook it up to anything or access it at all without knowing that password? And would I still be able to access it from the network? Honestly I don't even know how to share it as a drive. Please help!

You could try TrueCrypt and combine it with a USB fingerprint reader. You would encrypt the external drive, plug the fingerprint reader into your computer, and swipe your finger when the password prompt comes up. Then no one will be able to get into the external drive other than you.

[Intrepid781]

Ok well i used Bitlocker to encrypt and password protect it and now it won't read on my Vista desktop but its fine on the laptop I encrypted it on. Whats up with that?

[techie4fun]

Intrepid781, on 03 November 2009 - 03:28 PM, said:

People keep stealing my external forms of memory. SD cards, micro SD cards, jump drives, the list goes on and on. I have a 250 gig external hard drive that I have fairly well hidden. I want to put all my stuff on it and make it a shared drive on the network. I have Vista on my desktop which is what that is connected to and 7 on my laptop. Is there any kind of program that would let me put a password on it so you couldn't just hook it up to anything or access it at all without knowing that password? And would I still be able to access it from the network? Honestly I don't even know how to share it as a drive. Please help!

Once you have the file(s) encrypted and uploaded to your network, you'll have to type in the password to access those files.

So your encrypted file(s) can be seen on Windows 7 but not Vista?

[Intrepid781]

The drive can be seen but it says that windows can't access the drive. Vista has Bitlocker too, right? So I figured it should have worked just fine..