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Rohos Mini Drive creates protected partitions on USB flash drives
by Brad Linder Dec 12th 2008 at 11:00AM
When you plug a drive with a hidden partition into your PC you'll only see the unprotected partition. If you have Rohos installed on your computer you can right click the icon in the system tray to connect the hidden partition. If you're using a guest computer you can execute the "Rohos mini.exe" file in the main partition on your flash drive to enter your password.
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Hel said 11:59AM on 12-12-2008
The oft-mentioned Truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) is also capable of this and much more, but may not be quite as user-friendly.
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Jash Sayani said 1:53PM on 12-12-2008
The best solution to protection USB drives is Lockngo but its a bit expensive!
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Micha said 11:59AM on 12-16-2008
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Michael Pierce said 3:31PM on 12-12-2008
Truecrypt requires either that the user has administrator privileges if it is run from a USB drive or that Truecrypt has already been installed on the computer by an administrator. Everything I've seen for Rohos Mini Drive indicates that it can be run from a flash drive on a guest computer without special privileges: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/09/03/rohos_mini_drive_encrypts_your_usb_drive_files-2.html
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