Cheat Engine

Choycolate · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:24 pm Post subject: HDD security

can i put a password on my HDD?

Hero · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:49 pm Post subject:

With a program, I'm sure. I don't think you can do it physically though. Correct me if I'm wrong. It would take a special hard drive with the feature.

Choycolate · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:55 pm Post subject:

i dont know. But i think its a program maybe

SF · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:27 am Post subject:

You can encrypt it - Win7 Ultimate has the feature built in, but there's also others.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/bitlocker.aspx

kls85 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:35 am Post subject:

Tried bitlocker on my Vista Ultimate and this is what I've found out.
- You will need a TPM module for it to work, but you can change bitlocker to use a USB flash drive.
- It takes a long time to get the drive encrypted
- When the encryption is done, it will give you a random key, this is used as a backup in case you lost or broken your USB flash drive.
- If it's setup correctly, it will not boot without the USB key
- If USB key is lost or broken, it will ask for than random generated code.

There are hardware based encryption drives, Seagate make them.
You can also use 3rd party software like TrueCrypt