Hard drive encryption is an integral step for anyone looking to secure their data. It is a process which will go a step beyond regular password security and will ensure that a hard drive remain secure only to the user. However, it is important to note that once a hard drive is encrypted, ITS can not remove the encryption so any files that cannot be accessed may remain that way until the user themselves can access them.
There are both paid and free software for OSX and WIndows, this guide will focus mainly on OSX 10.6 and above and Windows 7 and above.
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Note: Drive encryption requires you to format your drive.
OSX 10.6 and above
1.Disk Utility (free)
Disk Utility is OSX's built in disk management tool. However, it also has a built in drive encryption feature.
To begin, open your disk utility which will most likely be in your Applications->Utilities folder.
From there, select the hard drive you want to encrypt (an 8GB flash drive for this example) and select