If so, be sure to give out the password (use just one) to your next of kin. I want to share that someone locked their stuff up and there was some 6 figures of bank accounts that were not available for years because of bad planning.
Try "CD-Lock works great on floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives, etc" at http://www.cd-lock.com/
What I want to remind you is that most of the time I see such usage to be a disaster when the person forgets the password. Or an OS update kills the lock software.
Bob
I use an external USB hard drive partitioned so that I have partitions for personal documents and partitions which anyone can use. I often need to move between various computers and locations.
I want to be able to:
1. Secure the partitions holding personal info so that when connected to ANY PC they can not be accessed until I punch in a password. The other partitions are to be freely accessible.
2. Access, use and edit these personal files on the go, therefore I don't want to use encryption.
3. Access, use and edit these personal files without installing a program on each PC I use, ie the program needs to be on the external hard drive.

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