Friend’s password protection is very important to keep your USB drive or external hard drive for safe if you have lots of important data in your drive.
to guard your data from others you should have to set up a password for the flash drive. Windows 7 lets you protect or lock your hard disk and removable drives by its Bitlocker feature.
The bitlocker is an encrypting tool, built-in with your Windows 7 OS. It can encrypt your whole drive and lock it by your given password. To access into the encrypted drive, one should provide the correct password.
By using of Bitlocker you can also protect your external hard disk or internal hard disk drives.
How set password for pendrive
For protect your drive with password you need use Bitlocker
To find out the Windows Bitlocker easily, type "bitlocker" in the start menu search box. Or, you can go to Control Panel > BitLocker Drive Encryption.
After select Bitlocker Drive encryption a window will open your all drive will show in this window now select Turn on Bitlocker (Select Turn on Bitlocker in front of drive which drive you want protect).(See below helping demo image)
Now select "Use a password to unlock the drive" and type your password. Then select a method to recover your password/key and press Next to start the encryption. (See below helping demo image)
It would take a few minutes, depending on Drive size.
Finally you have done it now your drive is protected with password.
Note - The ability to encrypt drives using BitLocker Drive Encryption is not available in all editions of Windows.
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