Your external hard drive is encrypted, and you can transfer your data to it. You will need to wait for a few minutes for the drive to be formatted, then afterward, it will be encrypted. Now go ahead to format and encrypt the drive.

Now you will have to select the password that will be asked every time when you access your hard drive.Ĭhoose a strong password that you could remember, too, because, without it, you won’t be able to access your device.

If the software asks you about the volume type, select ‘non-system volume.’ This is because the external hard drive that you intend to encrypt is not a part of your PC.

Select the one corresponding with your external hard drive.

Next, you will be asked to select your device.

Add a volume by clicking on the ‘new volume’ button.

So backup your data in order to avoid data loss. This is because encrypting the drive involves data formatting too. Now you need to connect the external hard drive to your PC.Īlso, backup the data present on the hard drive.

Encrypting external hard drive