CAN YOU ADD A PASSWORD TO PROTECT YOUR DATA STORED ON THE WD PASSORT?

Click start click on computer to open you should your drives

C: usually your hard drive D: or E: your cd/dvd drives if you have 2 and your usb drive possibly E:or F:

Click on your usb drive right click in it select new folder option you can name it

Then put all files or data you want to password protect

Right click on the folder select properties then click sharing tab tick in make this folder private box

Another message might appear you do not have a password on this account click yes

User and password account will open for you to put in place a password

This might vary depending on your operating system in XP

Select properties then security tab at learn about access controls at the bottom of the box

Also another option to change permissions click edit

Then click deny then click apply in W7

Hope this helps

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USB Safeguard is a portable software program to encrypt and protect data with a password on your removable pen drives using the AES 256 bits encryption.

The main purpose of using a USB pen drive is that you can bring your data with you wherever you go. But if you lose your USB pen drive your data also lose.

This is dangerous if you have confidential files stored in it. Protect the pen drive with a password. USB Safeguard offers users (novice and expert) a friendly yet extremely powerful security solution that fully protects valuable data stored on USB pen drives.

Also, the program has a useful feature that allows you to enter your email or phone if you lose the pen drive. Free version works only with USB Flash drive of size max 2 GB


hope it helps you

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http://download.cnet.com/%7Bvalue=http://www.download.com/usb-safeguard-free/3000-2092_4-75115673.html

USB Safeguard is a portable software program to encrypt and protect data with a password on your removable pen drives using the AES 256 bits encryption.

The main purpose of using a USB pen drive is that you can bring your data with you wherever you go. But if you lose your USB pen drive your data also lose.

This is dangerous if you have confidential files stored in it. Protect the pen drive with a password. USB Safeguard offers users (novice and expert) a friendly yet extremely powerful security solution that fully protects valuable data stored on USB pen drives.

Also, the program has a useful feature that allows you to enter your email or phone if you lose the pen drive. Free version works only with USB Flash drive of size max 2 GB

hope it helps you

Noise from the hard Disk not a very good Sign.

Try the device on a friends or a relatives PC. if you have the same result , you might be having a defective HDD. best would be to take it to a local repair shop for recovery of DATA. ( if you have warranty now would be a good time to use it)

ok try that it will work

yes...
"Cryptainer LE" is a free utility that will "encrypt" your flash drive.

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This Excel add-in (password.xla) works fine in Excel 5.0 and above (including Excel 2000, XP and 2003).
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If you did not input a password when prompted, just hit the Enter key and that should work.

Good Luck!

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