A large external hard drive may take many hours and should likely be left to continue overnight.
In testing, a regular USB memory stick (4GB in this case) took a couple of minutes to encrypt. The time taken to encrypt a drive depends on its size and how many files you have on the device. The encryption process is complete when the progress windows closes. Ensure you do this before shutting the computer down or taking any other action that would interrupt the encryption process. Important: if the encryption is taking too long you can pause it by clicking the ‘Pause’ button. You will instead do this later in the process.Ĭhoose next to start the encryption process. If you are offered the chance to Save your recovery key to a file ignore this and click Next.
Usb encryption for windows and mac password#
For tips on choosing a good password see If you try to complete this when your WBS computer is away from Warwick you will not be able to continue.Įnter a strong password when required and click Next. Important: you can only complete this option if you are connected to the network at Warwick. To be able to use the USB memory stick as normal select the ‘ Encrypt this drive’ option.This option could be useful if you are in a hurry and don’t have time to encrypt the drive now. You will then be able to open files on the drive but not save new ones. If all you need to do is read files from the memory stick then you can select ‘ Don’t encrypt this drive’.If in doubt contact the WBS Helpdesk for advice. We have never found a problem in testing but there is always a small risk of a problem during the encryption process that could damage the files. It is best practice to backup all the information on the memory stick before encrypting.
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