By:Ricky On: October 22nd, 2009 —
USB flash drives are the most commonly used device to share the information among the friends. Sometime it becomes necessary to hide our personal data from prying eyes (or from friends and family members) in order to secure USB. There are many free software available to password protect our data on USB flash drive as well as on PC. Gone is the day when we used to share data on floppy and hard disks, USB dirves or so called pen drives are the latest trend.
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Cryptainer LE is the freeware software by Cypherix. It lets you encrypt and hide your personal data on the PC in the container of 25MB each. All you have to do is to drag and drop your folders and files to this containers (vault).
Apart from this Cryptainer LE contains “mobile” feature which basically allows users to encrypt the data on mobile devices like USB flash drive (pen drive), CD ROM etc.
Features:
- Creates a container to encrypt the data.
- Uses 128 bit encryption method.
- Simple drag and drop operation to encrypt and hide files
- Mobile version can encrypt the data on USB stick and CD drives as well.
- Works well on 32 and 64 bit of windows operating systems.
- It can be installed on removable drives as a standalone installation
- It can encrypt email files as well without needing to use the software for the receiving party
Download it from here
Ricky is currently pursuing Engineering in IT hub(India). He is a kind of person, who is very keen on learning new things on net such as blogging tutorials, make money online, SEO,blogging tips,wordpress theme customization and many more stuff which he has developed a lot interest towards it.
I used True Encrypt once.. but this one also looks fine.. will check it !
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Cryptainer looks like an awesome product. Can’t complain that it’s free too!
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@Gabe
I always like free stuff.lol. Cryptainer is really good.
I like this software specially dragging & dropping files.
@techprism
Yes this feature is really cool. Thanx for stopping by
Hi,
I prefer TrueCrypt, I’m using it for more than a year now…and i really like it.
The best thing, it also allows you to create *secret* or *hidden* containers which cannot be revealed
just remembered…I’ve also done a post on it…chk it out http://www.hackerslane.com/articles/truecrypt-for-all-your-encryption-needs/
For more info, http://www.truecrypt.org
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Thank you for sharing your valuable software with our readers. It is really helpful
USB flash drives are now a days essential part of life whether you are carrying any presentation, music, data etc. I tried this free software and it works fine.
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@Sanjeev
Yes, USB flash drives are very essential part of our life. It is easy to carry data on usb drive rather than CD or DVDs. Nice to hear that you have already tried this application
Hey Ricky, just one question. Will it work on External HD?
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@steppinout
It should work on external HD. Lemme know if it is not working for you
I had an Imation thumb drive before and it comes with its own password protection and secured partition space. I dont know if this is standard with IMation drives since I only had one a year ago.
@Sean
Well protecting the USB drive with password is not a new trend. I am not sure whether it started with Imation or not. BTW thanx for stopping by
I’m gonna check this out. I once used some application that do these same things, I forgot its name. It did work quite nicely. The thing that made me uninstall it is that my anti-virus software keeps complaining about some virus that, I found through the forums, was somehow related to the application.
Hopefully, this Cryptainer or TruCrypt will prove to be as good without the virus connection.
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@James Moralde
. Let us know whether Cryptainer or Trucrypt works for you or not 
I hope it works well for you
Hmmm i would like to tell you about one more software which is not free but it is too good
Folder lock portable , i use it on my pendrives and extremely happy with the features of it
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@Sunny Bhasin
Folder lock is really good but it is not free. Thank you for sharing your experience with us
Hey, that’s the one. Folder Lock. It creates a file that you can not delete. It may not be a virus but my previous anti virus software considers it suspicious and it keeps popping up its message of distrust
which really becomes annoying. Eventually I uninstalled it. I also changed anti virus.
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@James Moralde
Folder lock is one of the best paid software. I doubt that it has got virus. It must be one of your file. Good to hear that you’ve changed the antivirus. I prefer to use kaspersky or microsoft security essential.
I have downloaded windows password key 8.0. It is a very quick and useful utility for resetting passwords. It not only supports XP, 2000, and NT, I have personally tested it with Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. It works perfectly to reset any local user account to a blank password.
Just an easy to use bootable CD/DVD . It can also be used on a USB Flash Drive. http://www.lostwindowspassword.com/
@Kevin
Kevin I checked “windows password key 8.0″ software, it has great features. Thank you for the link and suggestion
I’ve been using for quiet some time Rohos Mini Drive – it’s also free and easy to use.