What's a good password program to use on USB? (I would like to stay away from TrueCrypt)

Right click in your drive select new folder Place all data files you want to password protect inside your new folder Right click on your new folder select properties select the sharing tab Scroll to network and sharing at the bottom You have many options to password protect many files and folders Windows 7 In XP right click on your folder select properties then click the sharing tab tick the box do you want to make this folder private A message might appear if you have a password do you want to create a password Or you might download one or more of these all are free password protection programs b> http://download.cnet.com/truecrypt/3000-2092_4-10527243.html True Crypt Free Encrypt your sensitive data with this open-source software. http://www.truecrypt.org/ for more information on this software

Plug your Maxwell USB flash drive into your computer.

Click on the "My Computer" icon at the top of your computer screen.

Double click on the Maxwell USB icon.

Right click in a blank space in the middle of the window to pull up a small menu.

Select the "New Folder" option from the menu to create a new folder on your Kingston USB drive.

Drag all of the files that you want to protect into the new folder you created.

Right click on the folder that you created and select the "Properties" option from the menu.

Go to the "Sharing" tab and click on it.

Scroll down to the "Make This Folder Private" box and check it. Click the "OK" button and wait for the window to close.

Use your Windows log-in password to open the file.

There are also encrypt/password protect programs downloadable on the internet some are freeware some are pay programs

http://download.cnet.com/truecrypt/3000-2092_4-10527243.html

True Crypt Free

hope this helps

Yeah storagecrypt should work on it, but you might want to get Truecrypt instead. Truecrypt is FREE and a very popular choice among most techies. You can get it here:
http://www.truecrypt.org/

A lot of the external drives will come with built in software to do so. If your doesn't I would check out Truecrypt. It's a free open source program for encrypting hard drives usb flash, partitions etc.

http://www.truecrypt.org

The best way to password protect hard drive is to encrypt it. TrueCrypt is very good encryption software.
Download TrueCrypr here
Tutorial: how to setup TrueCrypt

You could password protect or encrypt the entire drive using a program such as TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org).

A little program called TrueCrypt can make a flash drive/portable hard drive set up for password protection.
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Keep in mind that this is not the only one out there, but this is the easiest to set up.
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You can get third party iencryption software. But a password feature is not built into the operating system. Try a free program called TrueCrypt. You can get it from truecrypt.org

You can tell windows to disallow access to the drive, but all anyone has to do is 're-allow' access, or even put it on a non-windows computer that understands windows drives, and your lock is gone.

If you really want security, check out the free 'TrueCrypt' program at: http://www.truecrypt.org/

That will allow you to lock the drive, and even have the drive completely hidden until you enter the passphrase.