Password protect YOUR pendrive in WINDOWS 7 & VISTA

Process To Password Protect Pen Drive

• Insert your pen drive which you want to password protect.

• Click start and open Control Panel.
  

(Quick Tip : To skip the next three steps  type BitLocker in the search box and hit enter.)

• Go to System and Security > BitLocker Drive Encryption.

• Find your pen drive listed amongst all the drives.

• Turn on Bitlocker for your pen drive. System will few seconds to turn this feature on.

• A window will open in front of you asking your desired password which you want to keep for your pen drive. Click next when you done with setting up the password.

• Store your recovery key at your desired place. Click next to continue. Recovery key can be used if in case you forget your set password.

• System will ask you to start encryption for your pen drive. Encryption will take some time.

• Once the encryption is over you will see a lock symbol on your pen drive icon.

• Remove the pen drive and re-insert it. System will ask you to enter the password to access the data.