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Traxdata EZ Drive USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Twister 512MB

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Posted by Herbert
Posted on 02/10/06 00:30
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Format and Security:


If you are one of those persons who often transport very sensitive data, which shouldn't be accessible by any person who finds the drive after or before you lost it, this drive offers a very easy and fast way to create a secure and safe area on the drive. For this purpose, there is no more to do than to open the, preferably before on the hard disk saved, USB Flash Disk Format Tool.

Once opened, the tool offers us the following functions.

  • Partition
  • Security
  • Configuration

A simple click onto the Start Format button would quick format the drive without the creation of a secure area. To enable this feature we need to switch to the Security Tab and set a password. Note: The drive in some pictures appears as USBest USB2Flashstorage because the pictures were taken after a recovery

Once the password is set, we can switch back to the partition tab and define the secure area. The size of the secure area can be set to almost every possible value. There is just a minimum of 3 MB that needs to be left as public area.

Back on the Partition tab, all we need to do is to hit the Start Format button. After a few seconds the stick is formatted and the secure area is set. Now the secure area can be accessed by the use of the USB Flash Disk Login Tool, which has been created in the public area of the drive.

After the input of the password and clicking onto the Unlock button the secure area is accessible and we can put our 'sensitive" data into it. Now a small icon in the task bar indicates us that secure mode is enabled.

After finishing our work in the safe area, we can easily lock the drive by just right-clicking onto the icon and selecting close.

The tab we left out until now is the Configuration tab, this one is nothing specia. Here we can just define if we want a quick or a full format of the drive. Please note that a full format is not possible when you want to create a secure area on the drive.

Alternatively, the entire drive can be formatted by the use of the in Windows integrated tool too, but here it's not possible to create a secure area on the drive.

Now let's continue with testing the drive's performance…………

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Yawn. There's just too many similar devices on the market, and the review does not compare this brand the the multitude of like devices from other makers.
yaaaaaaaaaaas
ist das Programm System gebunden oder kann das Programm mobil bleiben weil ich brauche das vor mein Arbeit
P.S ich habe kein rechte auch mein firm Rechner darum muss das Programm auf denn USB stick sein

Und wenn ich denn USB Reinstecken in denn Rechner soll ein Passwort aufkommen
Das mein Köliken nicht an meine Daten ran kommen
hi
it's wonderfull
yess
tnaks
device not found, please insert device
yes, exactly, "device not found, please insert device". And WHAT THEN???
Just another one from the crowd, useful no more/no less than other similar tools.
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