Use Rohos to create hidden partitions on USB flash drives (downloadsquad.com)
A free Windows program called Rohos Mini Drive is now available to protect the contents of those ubiquitous USB flash drives.
Now that USB flash drives are cheap and available practically everywhere; securing the drive's contents has become a serious issue. If you carry flash drives with you everywhere and you have the tendency to leave them everywhere as well; you are faced with the exposure of important data.
If the drive happened to contain a proposal, passwords, or other sensitive information in an unencrypted format, you would be left to worry about the security of your secret data.
There have been many solutions offered to mitigate this problem, but for the most part they are either expensive or cumbersome to use. That is until now.
The Windows utility called Rohos Mini Drive is free and lets you create a password-protected, encrypted, and hidden partition on any USB flash drive. It is possible to use the program on a hard drive as well, but that is really not what it is made for. It is designed to protect those of us who find ourselves leaving USB flash drives in other people's computers or sitting on the table at our favorite coffee shop.
This clever little application works when you plug a USB drive with a Rohos hidden partition into your PC. You will only see the unprotected partition. If Rohos is installed on the computer you can right click the icon in the system tray to connect the hidden partition. If you're using a computer without Rohos installed, you can run the "Rohos mini.exe" program in the main partition on your flash drive and enter your password to unlock the hidden partition. Pretty cool for a free program; I plan to use it on all of my USB drives as protection from myself.
Comments