Editor's review
Your confidential data needs to be stored well so that you do not loose it or have the information stolen by someone. Now you can keep your data in a safe manner and have it saved with the encrypted virtual disk protected by password. You can have it right there at your PC still out of the reach of everyone else. This can be achieved by using SecretDrive 1.3.4 that enables you to create multiple drives and store the data in them to have it protected with the password. The software basically manages the encrypted virtual disks. Even it would prove to be best as it provides the strong protection modes like AES, Blowfish, etc. Even it is easy for you to create the up to 4 hidden disks into one disk. Other benefits include creating backup and its restoration, encryption/decryption, Wipe Manager, Text Encrypter and Password Generator Tools.
With the SecretDrive 1.3.4 once can have the secret drive created and have the data stored in it for making it safe. The screen of the program is shown divided into the three parts one showing the Favorite Containers, other Mounted Containers and on the left part of the screen shows the Disk information about the free space, used space, etc. While selecting the protection functions you need to follow the step by step process. Select the disk to be protected and on the next step you require selecting the ‘Cryptographic Algorithm’ to be AES (Rijndael), Blowfish, Twofish, GOST 28174-89, or CAST 256. Contain Key feature shows the ‘Autogenerated’ and ‘Generate Manually’ options. Enter the password to apply the protection and then click on ‘Next’. Make the selection of the Default Disk Letter from the drop down menu and for Security you can even change the password. Choose the Encryption Algorithm and with the next step enable the feature ‘Mount as read only’. Browse and select the secret key file.
SecretDrive 1.3.4 makes it easy for you to have the disk encrypted and have the data included in for assured protection. Rated with 4 points it justifies it appreciable score owing to its extremely strong algorithm that makes it sure that the data is safe.
Problems:
- The text is difficult to read
- I could not get the `hidden` folders to work (hidden folders can be created within a virtual drive)
- While SD is loaded - I tried to delete the container (*.sec file) from windows explorer. SD prevented the deletion. But then I disabled SD and tried to delete the containter. And suddenly the secure folder was gone.
So other users on your PC may not be able to access your files without the password - but they can easily delete everything. Be Aware