Encrypt Your USB Drive with TrueCrypt

Sharing your personal data with your friends by flash/USB drives is by far the most effective and efficient way of data transferring. USB drives of today all available in all shape and sizes some are large – nail like, while majority is in small compact size. But, due to its small size, its also vulnerable to get stolen or misplaced. If it ever gets stolen, you are at a risk of revealing all your personal information available in the USB to who ever stole it.

Now with a very useful software, called TrueCrypt, all these problems can be handled with ease; and the best part of all, it don’t cost a penny.

TrueCrypt enables you to create an encrypted hard drive, a separate partition or a directory. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read without using the correct password or encryption keys. Thus allowing you maximum security.

Installing TrueCrypt onto your USB flash drive is pretty simple. Once installed you are required to create a TrueCrypt volume on a removable drive with preferable encryption option. After that create a password and format it. Mount your TrueCrypt volume and start using it.

For step by step procedure, Click here or Download TrueCrypt (2571kb)