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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008
- Date added: October 21, 2009
- Total Downloads: 27,598
- Downloads last week: 378
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 16 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on November 06, 2008
USB drives are simple to carry, but easy to misplace and that can be risky with sensitive information. Rohos Mini Drive is a freeware app that safeguards personal documents by creating a password-protected partition on your flash drive. The download actually installs two programs. One, Rohos Mini Drive, is the partition manager that self-installs as a portable app on the drive when you create the partition. The second, Rohos Disk Browser, is a portable file manager, which can be useful when the encrypted partition can't be read by the host computer.
Operating Rohos Mini Drive is fairly straightforward. Plug in your portable drive and start the program. You should see three choices: Set up USB flash drive, Change password, and Options. Setting up the drive requires choosing a password--that's it. Depending on the size of the drive, creating the partition should happen reasonably quickly. Once the partition has been created, you can change the disk size and partition drive letter. The Rohos Disk Browser displays and manipulate items in the protected partition. Single-click functions include open, saving, deleting, and displaying file properties. Searching and opening the partition is also easily selected from a short pull-down menu.
Rohos Mini Drive includes features to open the protected drive on systems where the user doesn't have administrator rights. That makes this app easy to use anywhere from public library labs to your best friend's system. We can easily recommend this app for all experienced users needing to transport personal files.
Publisher's description
From Tesline-service :Rohos Mini Drive encryption software that allows you to protect your USB stick by using hidden and protected partition. Those who has Megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive and seriously concerned with data security cannot imagine their USB stick without the hidden and encrypted volume that is created using this tool. Allows to open encrypted partition on any guest computer even without having Administrator's rights.
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Version: Rohos Mini Drive 1.7
Pros: clean interface
Cons: little bit of a learning curve
Summary: Good at setting up a partition on your drive that you wish to protect from prying eyes.
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Version: Rohos Mini Drive 1.7
Pros: does a fine job for basic security issues
Cons: Not totally free, only a 16 day trial and limits amount of disc space until registration
Summary: Probably look for something else
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Rohos Mini Drive 1.7
"Full password protection not included in free version."
Pros: No positive comments
Cons: Full password protection is not included in free version.
Summary: free version not usable for true thumb drive protection
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