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External hard drive security

Sep 11, 2014 5:54PM PDT

I run a mobile DJ company and we use external hard drives. The problem is, I want my hard drives to be unlocked automatically on boot up *IF* it's plugged into the correct computer. If someone were to try and copy the files away from the drive or plug it into another computer, I don't want the drives to work. Any idea of a software that will do this?

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Re: external hard drive security
Sep 11, 2014 7:41PM PDT

That's what Microsoft invented Bitlocker for: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/bitlocker. But many external hard disks (not all!) come with their own encryption software.
Since you're a company it could be an essential requirement is that such an encrypted disk works on multiple PC's (all PC's used by all your DJ's) and nowhere else. Thaat would be a nice selection criterion.

It's your choice what encryption to use. And very important: it's your responsibility to keep an unencrypted copy of everything you put onto it, just in case something happens. In fact, an unencrypted copy and - of course - a backup of that unencrypted copy.

Kees

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Find suitable encryption software
Sep 12, 2014 5:40PM PDT

To analysis your problem, at my point of view is go for Bitlocker product by Microsoft. But i dont know wheather your external hard disk support this type of encryption software because many of them had not support it. better to search in search engine to find out suitable software.