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Nowadays, USB flash drives are common storage devices for storing data. We often store business or personal data on USB drives. However, keeping your data on a USB drive is not always safe because the USB flash drive may be damaged or lost, resulting in data loss or leakage. So, how do we effectively and safely protect data on USB flash drives? This post may get you out of this mess.
We all know that it is easy to backup data by copying and pasting it from one place to another. If you don't want to lose your USB data and never get it back, you'd better copy the data on the USB drive to another storage device. Here we will show you how to keep data on a USB drive safe by backup data from one flash drive to another flash drive.
Step 1: Insert the two USB flash drives into the computer.
Step 2: Open File Explorer and click "This PC" in the left pane.
Step 3: In the "Devices and Drives" section, open the two flash drives.
Step 4: Select and drag what you want to backup to the destination flash drive. You can press Ctrl+A to select all the data on the source USB drive and drag it to another drive.
After doing all these steps, the data stored on USB flash drive will be fully and safely backup to anther flash drive.
In addition to backing up your USB drive, you can protect the data on your USB drive more safely and effectively. That is, you can password-protect the USB drive with or without BitLocker. Here's how to encrypt your USB drive:
Step 1: Plug your USB drive into your computer. Then open the File Explore to find your flash drive.
Step 2: Right-click the flash drive and choose the Turn on BitLocker option.
Step 3: Check "Use a password to unlock the drive" and enter your password twice. Then click the Next button.
Step 4: Click "Save to a file" to back up your recovery key. Then choose a path on your computer you want to save and click Next.
Step 5: Choose "Encrypt used disk space only(faster and best for new PCs and drives)" and click Next.
Step 6: Choose "Compatible mode(best for drives that can be moved from device)" to use and click Next to continue.
Step 7: Click on the Start encrypting button to encrypt this drive.
Step 8: A minutes later, the USB flash drive can be successfully encrypted with BitLocker, and you can see the state of USB flash drive is unlocked.
Step 9: After encrypting the USB drive with BitLocker, when you insert the USB drive on the computer again, the flash drive is locked by default and you need to decrypt it with your encryption password.
There is another reliable way you can encrypt your USB drive easier and faster than encrypting it with Bitlocker. You can try to use a third-party software --iSunshare SafeUSB Genius -- a powerful encryption tool to help you keep data on a USB disk safe. Here's how to protect a flash drive with a password using iSunshare SafeUSB Genius:
Step 1: Download and install this program on your computer and run it. After that, plug your USB drive into your computer.
Step 2: Click the Encrypt button to start.
Step 3: Next, you should enter your password twice to protect your USB flash drive. Then click on Encrypt to start encrypt.
Step 4: Soon, the USB drive can be successfully encrypted and you need to click OK to complete all these steps.
Conclusion:
Here are a few ways how you can keep your data safe on a USB drive. In contrast, Encrypt USB drives are more secure than backups of your USB drives. iSunshare Safe Genius lets you protect your USB flash drive with a password so that others can not access the flash drive without it. This is an amazing encryption tool that is worth trying.
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