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johntin
29-06-2006, 05:51 PM
Program needed to lock folders on portable hard drive.
Does anyone know of a good program that will do this for me.
There are certain things on this drive that I don't want people to have access to. It will be knocking around most of the time and people will be able to hook it up to a computer, which I don't mind but I want to keep some of it private.
Thanks in advance.

sammy
29-06-2006, 06:08 PM
Hi
Try this my friend
Hide Folders XP ver 1.2 (complete)
http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2006-06-21/0_20771.jpg

http://rapidshare.de/files/23681421/soft01.rar
Pass

www.AvaxHome.ru

johntin
30-06-2006, 08:33 AM
Hi Sammy
Thanks for that but it is no good.I want this for a portable drive. I installed the above program and hid the folder, once I unplug the drive and then plug it into a different machine the folder is visible. Even if I now plug it back into the original computer it is visible.So it doesn't really work for me.
A program called lock my folder works better but it is still not what I am looking for.
This program locks the folder, but I am unable to unlock it on a different machine.
ie I lock it at home on my main computer, I then take it to work and I cannot unlock it on my laptop even though I have the correct program installed on both machines. I can only unlock it on the machine that I locked it on.
So I am still looking. :(

Red_devil78
30-06-2006, 06:51 PM
hi. in windows xp if your drive is the NTFS files system (not FAT). this can be done. see How To Encrypt a File in Windows XP (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307877)

hope this helps

johntin
30-06-2006, 06:59 PM
Red Devil78 so you reckon that this will work for a portable drive. I will give it a try later.

Red_devil78
30-06-2006, 07:01 PM
it should do yes. if the drive is recognized in windows xp