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How to Encrypt Data on Portable Hard Drives with Encryption Software?

In recent years, portable hard drives play a major role in the field of data storage, so people pay more and more attention to its security. Just think of that you stored all of your personal documents, private images, user info and other important data on a normal portable hard drive, which is unavoidably stolen or lost. Portable hard drives, as a common storage medium, have been widely used in various aspects. So how to safely use portable hard drives with private data stored?

If you want to ensure the safety of data on portable hard drives fundamentally, you are suggested to encrypt the portable hard drives. Thus even your original data is illegally accessed by others, if the encryption algorithm is not broken, the stolen data cannot be read directly, and the danger of data misuse can be reduced as well.

How it works

Portable hard drives encryption is to run certain encryption software in operating system to complete the encryption and decryption of data. The encryption is so easy that it can be realized economically. Here a professional encryption software for portable hard drives is highly recommended, that is USB Encryptor, which can encrypt files and folders in USB drives and portable hard drives, shared folders are also included. Besides, this software features perfect removability, superfast encryption and decryption, and high encryption strength.

The features of USB Encryptor

1. High Confidentiality

With the advanced encryption algorithm, the encryption on your files and folders are super strong, so the security of your encrypted data can be ensured.

2. Easy to use

It is easy to encrypt data on USB devices, and the USB device can be accessed on any computer without installation again.

3. Portable encryption

When the file or folder is encrypted in portable hard drives, it will be carried to anywhere and visited anytime.

How to encrypt

1. Download USB Encryptor from official website (www.dogoodsoft.com), and unzip the ude.exe file to the place where the data to be encrypted is stored.

2. Set the software password (the default password for trial version is 888888, the full version user can change it as you wish), and click “OK” to enter the main window of software.The top of window is the functional area, below are two lists – the left displays the files and folders in disk with no encryption, the right are the encrypted file and folders.The top of window is the functional area, below are two lists – the left displays the files and folders in disk with no encryption, the right are the encrypted file and folders.

When encryption, you can choose to Flash-Encrypt Drive, so all of your files and folders will be transferred from left list to right, that is, all these data have been encrypted except for ude.exe file and some system folders.

If you need to use the encrypted data, just double click the specified file or folder in Decrypt Area, and it will be opened automatically.

Kindly note that if you want to protect the data on portable hard drives, first you should choose a good-quality portable hard drive, next is to use a professional encryption software.

How to Encrypt Folder in “Encryption Year”?

Recently, the president of United States Barack Obama called himself “a firm believer of strong encryption” when he visited Silicon Valley. Although some people criticized Obama for vague statement, the actual networking environment is really worrying, and the data security is more of concern, so data encryption appears to be more important. That is someone regards 2015 as an “Encryption Year”. When it comes to encryption year, we talk about how to better encrypt folders in the new year.

Want to encrypt folders on computer? First we think of is to choose a high quality of folder encryption software. As a professional folder encryption software, Best Folder Encryptor owns powerful features but with user-friendly design, any computer users can run it easily.

The characteristics of Best Folder Encryptor:

1. Perfect self-protection, it is copy-, remove- and delete-proof.

2. With advanced-encryption algorithms, the encryption on the files and folders is super strong.

3. Easy to use, anyone can grasp it in a short time.

4. Multiple features such as folder encryption, file encryption and disk protection. It works normally in all Windows systems.

5. As long as a file or folder is encrypted by Best Folder Encryptor, even it is transferred to other devices, the file or folder still remains encryption status.

How to encrypt folders:

1. Download Best Folder Encryptor from official website(www.dogoodsoft.com/best-folder-encryptor/free-download.html) and install it;

2. Run Best Folder Encryptor, click Encrypt Folder button, and then choose a folder to encrypt;

3. Set your encryption password, select an encryption type as you wish, and then click “OK”;

Notes: There are 5 encryption types set in Best Folder Encryptor – Flash encryption, Hiding encryption, Full encryption, Diamond encryption and Portable encryption.

Flash- and Hiding encryption are well known as fast encryption and decryption, and take up no extra disk space, which is very fit for oversize folders encryption.

Full-, Diamond- and Portable encryption use the advanced encryption algorithms to encrypt folder, so the encryption on your folder can be super strong. It is good to encrypt those important folders.

Encrypt your folder, protect your data, and have a good time!

The importance of encrypting files in USB

Maybe you worried about someone copies your files when you forget to take off your USB. Maybe you waste time in copying the files in your USB and formatting the USB before lending it to your friends. Now, I will recommend an encryption software, USB Encryptor, to you. The encryption by USB Encryptor is highly secure and strong. You can rest asscured.

As elite encrypting software, USB Encryptor can encrypt all or any specific data in a portable storage device (a USB flash drive, removable drive, memory card or a memory stick) in just seconds. You can also choose to decrypt all files and folders, or only those you need, at the time of decryption.

1. Download USB Encryptor into your USB.

2. Choose the file/folder requiring flash encryption from the file list in the left of main interface.

3. Click “Flash Encrypt”, or choose files/folders with the right mouse button, and then select “Flash Encrypt”. After that, the encrypted files/folders will instantly disappear from the disk and be transferred to flash encrypted area.

4. Or select “overall flash encryption” in the pop-up window, and all files/folders in the USB will instantly disappear from the disk and be transferred to flash encrypted area in the right of main interface.

USB Encryptor is a user-friendly green software, easy and simple to use.

Download: http://www.dogoodsoft.com/usb-encryptor/

This software will offer 15 registration codes, and each code corresponds to one disk partition ,which embodies humanization and is different from other similar domestic software.

Notice:
Once forgetting the password of files/folders encrypted by diamond encryption, there is no way to decrypt these files/folders.

How to hide CD-ROM and Hard Drive

Do you know how to hide CD-ROM and hard drive?

After hiding CD-ROM and hard drive, anyone using your computer cannot make use of the CD-ROM and visit hard drive partition storing important files.

Today I will show you how to hide CD-ROM and Hard Drive thoroughly and rapidly.

The premise of hiding CD-ROM and hard drive is a software, Best Disk Lock. Firstly, we need go to the software’s homepage(http://www.dogoodsoft.com/best-disk-lock/) to download and install it.

Here is the interface of Best Disk Lock.

How to hide CD-ROM and Hard Drive

In fact, the lock disk function of Best Disk Lock is completely hiding disk partitions and CD-ROM drives on your PC.

For example, I use three levels of locking disk function to hide my computer’s one disk partition.

Before hiding it, my computer content is presented like this.

Open Best Disk Lock, click “Lock disk” button at the bottom of lock disk window, and then choose a disk partition or a CD-ROM drive you want to hide in the pop-up window and the level of locking disk. At last, just click “Yes”.

After this, you can see the record of the disk partitions or CD-ROM drives you have hided. Whenever you want to cancel any hided disk partition or a CD-ROM drive, just choose the record and click “Unlock disk” button. That’s it.

After hiding it, my computer content is different from the former. The disk partition I have hided disappeared.

You must ask me the differences of these three hiding levels. Let me show you.

The elementary level: it just hides the directory in the computer, but you still can enter the hided disk and visit the files in it via cmd.

The intermediate level: you cannot not only see the hided disk partitions and CD-ROM drive, but also visit via cmd.

The advanced level: it completely hides the disk partitions and CD-ROM drive from hardware level.

Brief introduction of Best Disk Lock:

Best Disk Lock is a powerful utility which can completely hide hard disk partitions and CD-ROM drive on your PC, disable or read-only use of USB devices, making your private documents highly protected.