If you do a job which is confidential then it is very likely that you have to deal with a lot of secret documents and more often have to copy them on your pendrive or any usb drive and you can’t bear that the information can be shared with the exterior persons. If this is the case with you then you should use an utility which can encrypt all the data so that you can relax even if you have lost it.

Thus if you would like to apply this tactics then TrueCrypt can be the best option  for you which is an open source application and free to use.

1. Download TrueCrypt and extract to your usb drive and Run truecrypt.exe.

2. Create a folder where you want to store all your encrypted files. To do so click on “Create Volume” in the main interface and select the option to create an encrypted file container (as shown)

Now it will ask for a file to be used as the container just give it any name with any extension to be saved on the pen drive.

3. Now select the algorithm and the password to protect the files.

4. Now click on  create random information and click the format button in the end. The encryption is complete.

5. Now to use the data you have just stored click again on the TrueCrypt.exe and provide the password you have just added. The data will be back as a separate / new drive letter.