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What is the best way to secure data on an external drive

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What is the best way to secure data on an external drive

#1 Post by SteveDC » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:35 pm

My Thinkpad is always with me, but on trips I leave my Maxtor backup drives at my office and home.

Is there a practical way, through software, to secure these drives? Is there some software lock for the drive, or efficient encryption technique?

Thank you for considering my questions.

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#2 Post by GomJabbar » Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:40 pm

You could use the ThinkVantage Client Security Software for this. This software is not for the faint-hearted however.

If you use Rescue and Recovery, you can password protect the backups. Other backup software (such as StompSoft Backup MyPC) offers this option as well.

I believe you can apply a Hard Drive Password through the BIOS. I know you can do this with the internal drive, but I am not really sure about an external drive.
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Truecrypt

#3 Post by aw » Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:12 pm

I use TrueCrypt for this purpose. Check it out.

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