Portable HDD Security

[PriSim]

Hi ,

I just bough WD 1Tb HDD , to carry my educational and other data with me while traveling to other cities and countries , But now i want to carry some private data too , is there any way to make partitions of HDD and i can protect one partition ( like encryption or any password protection) that can be easily accessed when ever i want to access on any pc without installing any kind of software on that temporary pc, also it protect my data from viruses and Ransomeware attacks !

 

Please any suggestion ?

[mclaren85]

1 hour ago, PriSim said:

Hi ,

I just bough WD 1Tb HDD , to carry my educational and other data with me while traveling to other cities and countries , But now i want to carry some private data too , is there any way to make partitions of HDD and i can protect one partition ( like encryption or any password protection) that can be easily accessed when ever i want to access on any pc without installing any kind of software on that temporary pc, also it protect my data from viruses and Ransomeware attacks !

 

Please any suggestion ?

Yes, you can use Acronis Secure zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronis_Secure_Zone

[PriSim]

1 hour ago, mclaren85 said:

Yes, you can use Acronis Secure zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronis_Secure_Zone

Thanks for the info.

Can you tell me is this software tested by you personally !

and if accidentally That partition got corrupted can i recover my space ? means my total space will be 1TB again or that partition will gone forever ? ( i am not talking about files here)

[stylemessiah]

Partitioning just for encryption is a bad idea, it draws attention to what youre trying to protect for starters.

 

Me id use file/folder encryption and keep it in plain sight, this method is far better than relying on a partition which can easily become damaged on an external drive which youre likerly to plug/unplug a lot, id rather lose the odd file to this than an entire partition

 

Free

http://scand.com/products/wingpg/index.html

 

Paid:

http://www.axcrypt.net/

[mclaren85]

3 hours ago, PriSim said:

Thanks for the info.

Can you tell me is this software tested by you personally !

and if accidentally That partition got corrupted can i recover my space ? means my total space will be 1TB again or that partition will gone forever ? ( i am not talking about files here)

No I have never need an encrypted partiton. I only use winrar password for protecting my private files.

[PriSim]

14 hours ago, stylemessiah said:

Partitioning just for encryption is a bad idea, it draws attention to what youre trying to protect for starters.

 

Me id use file/folder encryption and keep it in plain sight, this method is far better than relying on a partition which can easily become damaged on an external drive which youre likerly to plug/unplug a lot, id rather lose the odd file to this than an entire partition

 

Free

http://scand.com/products/wingpg/index.html

 

Paid:

http://www.axcrypt.net/

 

Nice Suggestion , please clear on more thing here , can i open it (decrypt) on any pc without installing them ?

[DKT27]

Thread moved to Security and Privacy Center. Suits better here.

[Jordan]

21 hours ago, PriSim said:

..... that can be easily accessed when ever i want to access on any pc without installing any kind of software on that temporary pc, also it protect my data from viruses and Ransomeware attacks !

Please any suggestion ?

 

Instead of partitioning your hdd and encrypting your files, why not simply compress them with Winrar and protect them with a strong password?

Passworded rar files are not so easy to crack as you think!

 

This way you don't have to partition your hdd or install anything when you want access to your files

All you have to do is to provide the password.

[DKT27]

52 minutes ago, jordan4x said:

 

Instead of partitioning your hdd and encrypting your files, why not simply compress them with Winrar and protect them with a strong password?

Passworded rar files are not so easy to crack as you think!

 

This way you don't have to partition your hdd or install anything when you want access to your files

All you have to do is to provide the password.

 

Good point.

 

Just do not make a solid archive though. Last time I checked, if a compressed file is compressed as a solid archive, the whole archive needs to be extracted - in background, when one needs just one file from it.

[JimmySvert]

11 hours ago, jordan4x said:

 

Instead of partitioning your hdd and encrypting your files, why not simply compress them with Winrar and protect them with a strong password?

Passworded rar files are not so easy to crack as you think!

 

This way you don't have to partition your hdd or install anything when you want access to your files

All you have to do is to provide the password.

 

True. I think you can even repack / compress an already pass-protected compress file with another password. Don't know if dummy passworded rar files can be created too.

[PriSim]

Ok i will do that , it is easy and i am already using this , but can you tell me that on protected rar file , ransomware attack or not ? i know about virus it fails to damage the file but what about ransomwares ?

[DKT27]

23 hours ago, PriSim said:

Ok i will do that , it is easy and i am already using this , but can you tell me that on protected rar file , ransomware attack or not ? i know about virus it fails to damage the file but what about ransomwares ?

 

If I can understand what you are asking correctly, if one file on your computer is not accessible, it's possible other, password protected rar file might not be accessible too.