Disk Password Protection for Windows

It's simple enough for the novice to use, but there's nothing simplistic about this system utility's hard-disk password protection.

The program's clean, easy-to-use interface holds basic command buttons across the top of the window and displays your PC's disk partitions. A wizard and extensive Help file ensure that you're on the right path to protection. The first easy step is selecting the kind of protection--boot or partition--and choosing the disk to protect. In addition to a 30-day trial period, the program has a restriction that prevents you from creating your own password. But no matter, we applied the default password, and the program worked perfectly, password-protecting our designated disks. At system start-up, we were asked to enter our password before our system would continue with the bootup process.

Despite the password restriction, we got a good taste of this program's capabilities. Novice and experienced users alike will feel safer using Disk Password Protection.

• Added a possibility to manage boot protection in UEFI systems.
• Added a possibility to protect the process of booting from disks with GPT partition tables.
• Added a possibility to protect volumes on disks with GPT partition tables.
• Added the support of disks with 4096-byte sectors (Advanced Format).
• Added the support of dynamic disks with GPT partition tables.
• Added the support of Windows 8 and newer versions.
• The core of the program has been completely reworked. Boot and volume protection algorithms have been improved.
• The interface of the program has been redesigned (made similar to that of Cryptic Disk, a tool for transparent encryption of containers and disks).
• Added a possibility to automatically check for updates.
• Fixed a problem with large disk support.
• Fixed a problem with boot and system disk detection.
• Windows 9x and Windows NT/2000 operating systems are no longer supported. The oldest supported operating system is Windows XP SP3.
• The SDK is no longer distributed.
• The ATA protection control module is no longer supported.
• The trial version is no longer limited to 30 days.
• Multiple other minor improvements and fixes.