How To Password Protect Your USB Flash Drive

Everyone now a days has one or two additional USB flash drives and hard disks with them because USB flash drives makes sharing of data very easy and fast. You can share large files very easily because downloading the same file from the internet would take a very long time and also utilize our data. So instead, we prefer to take that file from a friend who has that file. We can share very heavy files using USB flash drives because now you can even buy a USB flash drive with a storage capacity of 512 GB.
Not only sharing of Movies and videos, some people even share very personal data using pendrive. What if the pendrive gets lost somewhere. Is the data still Safe? Can someone else access that file except me? Of course, if you have not set a password on your USB flash drive.
Here’s how to protect your USB flash drive with a password without any software.
Just follow the steps outlined below to set a password on your USB flash drive.
Step 1:- Insert the USB flash drive which you want to protect in your Computer.
Step 2:-  Open My computer.
Step 3:- Right click on your USB flash drive and click on Turn on BitLocker.
Step 4:- Now enter the password which you want to set.
Step 5:- Click next. Now it will give you some alternative methods by which you can recover back your USB flash drive if you forgot your password. Then you can use this file as a password.
Step 6:- Save that file to your computer and again click next.
NOTE: Copy the encrypted file into several locations (most reliably cloud drives) should in case you forget your password so you can easily use it to recover your password when you have forgotten it because without this, you cannot decrypt the USB flash drive when you forget your password.