I am encountering a very problematic time in buying an external hard drive.
i have a notebook, pentium 4, 40 gigs, xp, 1.9ghz, and I want to purchase an external hard drive, the content of the hard drive will be work and personal files that would be on my Ghost Image that I would create from Symantec.
i have already tried and created a boot disk that recognizes an external hard drive and this is what i would use in the event of a crash.
the problem is, i am told ....if I put a security program on the External Drive so that the drive would be protected if stolen that the Hard drive boot disk would not allow me access to the Ghost Image on my hard drive in order to get my "crashed" notebook back and running; bascially because the security program would be encrypted.
I have surfed all week thinking that there should be a password program that would be a possible security option and that I would be given the choice to enter the password to access the contents of the hard drive to restore my ghost image to my notebook and if the Drive was stolen then the person who took it would have to figure it out. but after a week of surfing and using google with such words as "secure device for External drive", I have come up with nothing.
I need to secure the external drive in case it gets stolen and i also have to access the Ghost Image if my notebook crashes.
I hope that someone may have some ideas. Perhaps some Secure programs, is what i really need in the event of a crash that allows me to get to the Ghost Image.
I am looking at the western digital one touch or the Maxtor Drive Touch II which was just released and it mentions a new feature "Drive Lock" and references it to a port lock and recommends a kensington product to deal with the security, although it does not specify what kensington product.
I was looking at simply an enclosure and a samsung and several of my friends have had problems with arguments over whether the enclosure was inadequate or it was the drive itself. I don't want headaches, and as well I know that Seagate is a good product with a 5 year warranty however I have made up my mind on the drive and the enclosure from the same company.
But that is simply an aside comment, what I really need input on is how to secure the hard drive and yet be able to access the Ghost Image in the event of a crash.
I look forward to replies, thankyou
i have a notebook, pentium 4, 40 gigs, xp, 1.9ghz, and I want to purchase an external hard drive, the content of the hard drive will be work and personal files that would be on my Ghost Image that I would create from Symantec.
i have already tried and created a boot disk that recognizes an external hard drive and this is what i would use in the event of a crash.
the problem is, i am told ....if I put a security program on the External Drive so that the drive would be protected if stolen that the Hard drive boot disk would not allow me access to the Ghost Image on my hard drive in order to get my "crashed" notebook back and running; bascially because the security program would be encrypted.
I have surfed all week thinking that there should be a password program that would be a possible security option and that I would be given the choice to enter the password to access the contents of the hard drive to restore my ghost image to my notebook and if the Drive was stolen then the person who took it would have to figure it out. but after a week of surfing and using google with such words as "secure device for External drive", I have come up with nothing.
I need to secure the external drive in case it gets stolen and i also have to access the Ghost Image if my notebook crashes.
I hope that someone may have some ideas. Perhaps some Secure programs, is what i really need in the event of a crash that allows me to get to the Ghost Image.
I am looking at the western digital one touch or the Maxtor Drive Touch II which was just released and it mentions a new feature "Drive Lock" and references it to a port lock and recommends a kensington product to deal with the security, although it does not specify what kensington product.
I was looking at simply an enclosure and a samsung and several of my friends have had problems with arguments over whether the enclosure was inadequate or it was the drive itself. I don't want headaches, and as well I know that Seagate is a good product with a 5 year warranty however I have made up my mind on the drive and the enclosure from the same company.
But that is simply an aside comment, what I really need input on is how to secure the hard drive and yet be able to access the Ghost Image in the event of a crash.
I look forward to replies, thankyou
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