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Need to password protect external HDD
I hope this is a good/right section for this, it could fit in several. Anyway, I have a WD 2500 external HDD, that I am using to store backups. I have it formatted into three partitions, all Fat32, as I run both windows and Linux. A while back I started to do something, with the HDD, and I don't remember how/why now, but I managed to format the entire drive, losing everything, a lot was un-replaceable. So I have repartitioned, and started my backups. I want to put a lock of some sort on each partition separately, or the drive as a whole, so that not only is it encrypted (which I can find plenty of resources), but also so that nothing can be deleted/formatted without a password, so I don't make the same mistake again. This way it will at least slow me down long enough that I have time to think about what I'm doing, and realize I need to stop
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this? I have tried right-clicking on partition, and going to properties, I can password protect each file separably, but not the drive or partition as a whole. I googled it, and found plenty of partition/drive encryption, but they will not stop a format. I found a lot of ways to format/delete partitions/drives that are password protected, but nothing to do the protecting.
Thanks Guys/Girls