You could try the system encryption feature in TrueCrypt and see if it does what you want. TrueCrypt is a truly excellent tool IMHO. However, I have never encrypted a system drive before, and from what I know, if your hard drive is encrypted and it fails your data is lost and you are pretty much screwed. Visit http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/ and look for system encryption. HTH, Amro ----- Original Message ----- From: austin pinto To: sunilsangtani ; accessindia ; Voice Vision. ; jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; blindwindows7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bhavesh ; access-uk Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 9:39 AM Subject: [access-uk] external hard drive problem solved have another question hi all my external hard drive is working properly there was an internal connection problem thank you all for all the help now i have a question i have used the drive to back up all my data on boath my netbook and pc running windows 7 ultimate now the question is is there any way by which i can protect the hard drive with a password i mean if any one connects the hard drive to his computer it will ask for a password or if any 1 tries to format it will ask for a password beafore formatting it please help -- created using a dell inspiron mini 10(1012) NETBOOK win7ultimate ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq