Hey all,

I was just wondering if anybody knew how to password protect an external drive.

For instance, I have a small 30gb USB drive that I use to backup my laptop every night. Last week I lost the drive on the street. Thankfully though, it had my name and contact and the person who picked it up phoned me.

The thing is that this drive obviously has a lot of important information on it. Is there a way to password protect it, so that if it does get lost again, then at least i know the data is safe.

I used to PGP disk, but the version I have does not work with XP, and the new PGP Disk is too expensive.

Any ideas? Suggestions?