Data is always valuable be it anywhere. Most of the time we carry it on Hard disk or USB drives and sometimes we also use Online Storage for this.  However in all the cases your data is no doubt secured but not safe. Anybody who can get hold of your hardrive or USB can get your data and there is where True Crypt comes into play.

True Crypt is free software which  can create virtual encrypted disk of entire partition or mount an encrypted folder as a partition. This way its much secured and nobody can read it unless you provide a secure access to it. It uses AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish as encryption algorithm.

True Crypt Encryption

The best part of this software is, it can make any type of file as a file container i.e. I made a text file as a container and now I can store as many files in it. Opening the my.txt directly doesn’t show anything and can only be mounted from True Crypt.

Mounting Encrypted files

You can also use a key pass file instead of password used to secure. This makes it uncrackable but at the same time you need to carry the key file with you. You can also encrypt your hard drive partitions and even your bootable partition i.e. where your windows is installed. This will prompt for password at the boot time and you can make it much more secure if you have very sensitive data.

Overall an excellent software which you can use it very easily and safeguard your valuable data.  Try True Crypt