FSPro Labs: Software for Protecting Files on External Disks

FSPro Labs announced Hide Folder Ext, a software for protecting files on external disks.

"You can find about dozen of great folder hiding software solutions on the market, but all of them are intended to protect data on internal hard drives", says Michael Karsyan, FSPro Labs CEO. "Before Hide Folder Ext, the only way to protect files on external volumes was data encryption, which was not always appropriate. Now Hide Folder Ext lets users to hide folders on external or removable drives, and does it in no time".

Protecting data on external drives is an important security task. If a user stores sensitive files on a USB flash drive, the data could be disclosed if the drive was lost or stolen. Hide Folder Ext can hide a folder on such drives and lock access to it with a password.

As for the user interface of Hide Folder Ext, it is easy to work with. It is implemented as a ‘wizard’. The program guides user from disk selection to the final screen in such a way that it is impossible to do anything wrong.

Hide Folder Ext is portable software. It is possible to copy it to external disk which contains the protected folder. So the authorized user will be able to access hidden files from any computer.

Key features:

• Hiding folders on external disks connected via USB, SATA, Firewire
• Hiding folders on removable media like SD, Memory Stick etc;
• Protection regardless of the size of protected files;
• Support of NTFS, FAT and FAT32 file systems;
• Protected files are invisible in safe mode, or on other computers;
• The program can copy itself to external disk.

Hide Folder Ext is compatible with Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and Windows 7. The price starts from 29.95 USD for a single-user home license. Volume and educational discounts are available.