How to Password Protect USB Stick in Windows 11/10/8/7/XP

By Li ZhangUpdated on December 17, 2022

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Q 1: How to Password Protect a USB Stick in Windows 10?
“I have many important document in my USB stick. In order to keep them safe, I need to create a secure room to stored my important and sensitive data in USB stick, is there any method to help me divide my USB flash drive into two area and set a password for protecting my data?”

Q2:How do I Lock a USB Stick in Windows 10 without Bitlocker?
“How to encrypt a USB stick without Bitlocker? I know that the BitLocker is an built-in free encryption tool in Windows 10 for protecting local hard drives, but it’s very cumbersome to password protect USB drive with Bitlocker, is there any more simple USB encryption tool to lock a USB stick or USB drive in Windows 10?”

It’s necessary to encrypt USB stick to protect your important data, there are two methods to password protect USB stick or USB drive in Windows computer. You can password protect USB drive free via Windows built-in encryption tool - BitLocker, or encrypt your USB stick with some third-party USB encryption tool, such as UkeySoft USB Encryption and UkeySoft File Lock. But, it’s very complicated to encrypt USB drive in Windows PC via BitLocker, so we suggest you use a professional USB Lock tool to password protect your USB stick. Let’s follow the graphic tutorial below to encrypt USB drive in Windows 11/10/8.1/7/XP via UkeySoft USB Encryption.

Best USB Encryption Tool to Encrypt USB Stick/USB Flash Drive

Ukeysoft USB Encryption is a tool which can encrypt USB flash drive, portable strong device (external drive) and divide external drive into two parts after encryption, the secure area and public area. That means you can store normal files in the public area, and store sensitive data or private data in the secure area. No one can access the secure area without password, all the files are encrypted and absolutely safe in the secure area.

More Features:

• Create a password to protected USB memory sticks.
• Create an secure area in USB drive.
• Encrypt any USB drive, such as USB flash drives, Memory Sticks, SD Memory Cards, Thumb Drives, Pen Drives, and Jump Drives.
• Password protect information, files, folders and documents in USB drive.
• Easy to lock or unlock your USB drive.
• Supports Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7/8/10/11

Tips: If you want to hide or lock files & folders in USB stick/USB flash drive, you can use UkeySoft File Lock to hide or password protect data on USB drive.

By doing this, it just takes a minute to password protect your private data with Ukeysoft USB Encryption.

CONTENTS

Part 1: How to Password Protect a USB Stick with UkeySoft USB Encryption

Step 1. Download the Ukeysoft USB Encryption from the link below.

Step 2. please insert the USB stick that you want to password protect on the USB port of your computer.

Step 3. Choose the USB drive that you want it to be encrypted.

Step 4. Set the Size of secure area will be created.

PS. The USB device needs to be formatted before creating a secure area.

Step 5. Click on the “Install” button to start creating secure area.

Step 6. Wait for the USB stick to be analyzed.

Step 7 Set the password of the secure area and click on the “OK” button to finish the operation.

Step 8. Then you just have to wait it to be finished.

We have done the encryption to USB stick by setting the secure area with Ukeysoft USB encryption on Windows. Next I am going to show you how to open the secure area from an encrypted USB stick. Here are the steps.

Part 2: How to Access Data from Secure Area

Step 1. To access your data, you plug in the USB stick into your computer. You will see a file “Agent.exe” in your USB stick, that’s the secure area which requires password to get in. Other files are locating in the public area which has not been encrypted.

Step 2. To access the secure area, run the “agent.exe” program, then enter the password of the secure area.

Step 3. Then set your secure drive letter.

Step 4. Once it’s done, you will see the secure area drive on your computer.

The secure area and the public area is clearly shown below in two different drives.

Part 3: How to Close Secure Area?

To close the secure area on the USB stick. Just a few steps below.

Step1. Close all programs that are accessing data on the secure are.

Step 2. Right-click the USB stick Encryption system tray icon on the right bottom corner.

Step 3. Click on the menu item, select “Close sucure area” to close the area or click “Exit” to close the secure area and eject the USB stick.

There are few more features in Ukeysoft USB Encryption that I want to show you how to operate them.

Part 4: How to Restore the Secure Area

If the file “agent.exe” has been deleted, how to open this secure area.

Step 1. Plug your USB stick into your computer.

Step 2. Click on the “Recover” button to repair the USB drive.

Step 3. Then you will fin d the “agent.exe” reappearing on your USB disk, you can run it to open the secure area.

Part 5: How to Delete the Secure Area

Step 1. Plug your USB stick into your computer.

Step 2. Click on the “Unistall” button to start deleting the secure area.

Part 6: How to Change the Password

Step 1. Plug your USB stick into your computer.

Step 2. Click on the “Password” button.

Step 3. Enter the old password set the new password of the secure area to finish the operation.

Conclusion

From the detail steps I have shown you above, I am sure that you will find UkeySoft USB encryption is very useful and how easy to password protect your private data in USB stick or USB drive , and you will definitely find it’s very necessary to encrypt your personal data in USB stick when you need to share your files at work due to the risk of leaking to the public. So let’s get UkeySoft USB encryption immediately to make your USB stick or USB drive completely safe by password protecting it!

Li Zhang

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Li Zhang

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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