How To Protect External Hard Disk Drives With Passwords

Steps To Secure Your External Hard Drive With BitLocker:

Step 1.First of all, connect your external hard drive to your Windows PC and turn it on. Now click on Start button and then navigate to Control Panel -> BitLocker Drive Encryption.Secure Your External Hard Drive With BitLocker.

Step 2. By default BitLocker will be “Off” you need to Turn On BitLocker for the drive that you want to encrypt.Secure Your External Hard Drive With BitLocker.

Step 3.Now there tick on “Use a Password to Unlock the Drive” option there and enter the same password in both fields and then click “Next“.Secure Your External Hard Drive With BitLocker.

Step4.Now time to save your key somewhere for that click on “Save the Recovery Key to a File,” and then select any location where you want to save your key for future reference  and then proceed by clicking on next button.Secure Your External Hard Drive With BitLocker.

Step 5.Now click on Start Encryption option and wait for the process to complete and it can take a time to complete depending upon drive size.

Once finishedSecure Your External Hard Drive With BitLockerThat’s it! you are done, now you drive will always a require a password to access files inside it.