How to Encrypt A USB Flash Drive in Windows 10 – Make It Safer

For more security and privacy, it is highly advisable to encrypt a USB flash drive to prevent any unpredictable and unauthorized access. In this article, we will share with you several easy and effective methods to encrypt a USB flash drive in Windows 10.

• Way 1: Encrypt USB flash drive with BitLocker
• Way 2: Encrypt USB flash drive with iSunshare SafeUSB Genius
• Way 3: Encrypt USB flash drive with DiskCryptor
• Way 4: Encrypt USB flash drive with VeraCrypt

Way 1: Encrypt USB flash drive with BitLocker

If you want to encrypt USB flash drive, BitLocker Drive Encryption is your first choice. As a Windows built-in encryption tool, BitLocker Drive Encryption can securely encrypt your data on USB flash drive with industry-standard AES encryption, which is very trustworthy. iSunshare BitLocker Genius for Windows is an assistant tool that can help you encrypt USB flash drive with BitLocker more conveniently and intuitively. The following guide is about how to use this tool to encrypt USB flash drive with BitLocker in ease.

Step 1: Download and install this tool on your computer and insert a pen drive into your computer.

Step 2: Launch this tool. On the interface, right-click the USB drive and select Turn on BitLocker option.

Step 3: Type and confirm a password and then click save to file button to back up a .txt file as recovery key.

Step 4: Then choose a location to save the new recovery key file and click Save button.

Step 5: Click Encrypt button to start encrypting. Wait for a while until a window pops up prompting that the encryption is competed.

Step 6: Right-click the hard drive and select Lock Drive option. Finally, the pen drive is encrypted with BitLocker Drive Encryption.

Tips: This tool also allows you to change the password and remove BitLocker from USB flash drive. In addition, you can also lock or unlock BitLocker conveniently.

Way 2: Encrypt USB flash drive with iSunshare SafeUSB Genius

iSunshare SafeUSB Genius is the easy to use USB drive encryption software which can help Windows users to password protect USB drive without BitLocker. It offers a more direct way to set the password on USB drive. At the same time, it is secure to protect the USB data as all USB data are invisible after encryption. No one can know you have encrypted all USB data unless you tell them.

Step 1: Download and install this software on your PC and then plug the USB drive into the computer. 

Step 2: Choose your USB flash drive and then click the Encrypt button on the main interface.  

Step 3: Enter the password twice and then hit on the Encrypt button on the bottom right corner.  

Step 4: In no time, the software starts encrypting the USB flash drive. You will get the successful prompt soon.   

Way 3: Encrypt USB flash drive with DiskCryptor

DiskCryptor has been discontinued since 2014, but it’s still a good solution to encrypt USB flash drive. Its handiness and high speed of encryption are the reasons for recommending it. Follow the steps below to use DiskCryptor to encrypt the USB flash drive.

Step 1: Download and install it on your pc and insert USB flash drive into your pc.

Step 2: Launch it. Right-click the pen drive and select Encrypt option.

Step 3: On a popup window, choose an algorithm and wipe mode and then click Next button.

Step 4: Type and confirm a password and click OK button to start encrypting.

Step 5: Wait for a minute until the encryption process is finished.

Way 4: Encrypt USB flash drive with VeraCrypt

VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt and is widely acknowledged its successor. It is also one of the most popular and secure disk encryption tools. Here is how to encrypt USB flash drive with VeraCrypt.

Step 1: Download and install this tool on your Windows computer. Then insert your USB drive into your pc

Step 2: Launch it and then click Create Volume button.

Step 3: Select Encrypt a non-system partition/drive option and then click Next button.

Step 4: Select Standard VeraCrypt volume option and then click on Next button.

Step 5: Click Select Device button. On a new window, select the USB flash drive and click OK button. Then click Next button.

Step 6: Choose a volume creation mode and click on Next button. If you have data stored on USB drive, choose Encrypt partition in place option. Otherwise, choose the other one.

Step 7: Choose an encryption and hash algorithm for the encryption and click Next. If you have no idea, it would better to leave the default settings.

Step 8: Type and confirm a password and click on Next button.

Step 9: Finally, wait for a while until the interface prompts that the USB drive has been encrypted successfully.

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How to Repair an Excel File That Will Not Open

 When you get such error messages, including “Excel found an unreadable content in ‘<filename>’ Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes”, “Can’t find project or Library”, “This workbook cannot be opened or repaired by Microsoft Excel because it is corrupted” and “Microsoft Excel has stopped working”, the Excel file is corrupted and cannot be opened. How can you repair the corrupted Excel file? Don’t worry; here are three effective ways for you.

• Way 1: Open and Repair an Excel File with MS Office Built-in Function
• Way 2: Change the Calculation Option to Manual
• Way 3:Use Professional Excel Repair Software

Way 1: Open and Repair an Excel File with MS Excel Built-in Function

 When you get the notification like “Excel found an unreadable content in ‘<filename>’ Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes”, MS Excel automatically launches File Recover mode and try to repair the workbook for you. Of course, you can also manually start the Open and Repair utility to repair the Excel file that cannot be opened.

Step 1: Open MS Excel or directly open a blank workbook. Then hit File > Open.

Step 2: Go to the location where the corrupted Excel file stores and then choose it in the Open window.

Step 3: Click the icon behind the Open button, and then you can choose the Open and Repair option.

Step 4: In the pop-out window, click the Repair button. If it makes no effect, you can try the second option Extract Data.

Way 2: Change the Calculation Option to Manual

You can change the calculation option to manual to recover data from the Excel file that will not open.

Step 1: Launch the MS Excel and access File > New > Blank Workbook.

Step 2:  In the new workbook, click File > Options.

Step 3: In Excel Options window, select Formulas from the left panel and then set the Workbook Calculation option to Manual.  After that, click the OK button to apply the change.

Step 4: Now, you can click File > Open to open the corrupted Excel file.

Way 3: Use Professional Excel Repair Software

 If the above methods cannot help to repair your Excel XLSL file, you can use the professional Excel repair software to repair and restore the corrupted XLSL content. iSunshare Excel Repair Genius is the professional and easy-to-use Excel repair tool that helps to repair the XLSL file without changing its original layout and structures.

Step 1: Download and start the program immediately after finishing the installation.

Step 2: Open the corrupted Excel file and click the Restore button.

Step 3: Once the restore completes, you can see there is a Tips box to inform you. Hit OK to go ahead.

Step 4: Click the Save button and find a location to save the new Excel file with the restored data.

Step 5: The file is saved successfully in seconds. You can open the file by clicking the Yes button.

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How to Recover Damaged or Corrupted Word Document

 When you open a Word document and find that the layout and formatting are in a mess so that it is impossible to read normally, the Word file might be corrupted or damaged. Or when you cannot open the Word file and get the error messages, the file is recognized as a damaged document. There are other abnormal behaviors that can help you to identify the damaged Word file, such as some characters are unreadable, and digital gibberish appears on the document. Now that we know that how to identify a Word file is normal or damaged/corrupted, how can we solve this issue and recover damaged or corrupted Word document? You need a professional Word repair tool.

About iSunshare Word Repair Genius

When it comes to the Word repair tool, iSunshare Word Repair Genius is highly recommended. This excellent Word repair tool can help you to repair and recover the Microsoft Word files in DOCX format without any changes to the original structure and content of the document. Besides, you are able to save the restored Word document as another new file and full control of the content. iSunshare Word Repair Genius is compatible with Microsoft Word 2007/2010/2013/2016/2019.

It is secure to recover the damaged or corrupted Word file with iSunshare Word Repair Genius. You can find that everything is identical to the original one, including the text, fonts, images, hyperlinks, and so on.

How to Repair the Damaged or Corrupted Word Document

First of all, you need to make sure Microsoft Word is not in use.

Step 1: Download and install iSunshare Word Repair Genius on your Windows computer.

Step 2: Run the software and hit the Open button to add your damaged or corrupted Word file to the path box.

Step 3: Immediately, the file is restored. Click the OK button to continue.

Step 4: Click the Save button and decide the location to store the restored Word file.

Step 5: The file is saved successfully. You can open it to digest the content.

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How to Clone HDD to Samsung 860 EVO SSD in Windows 10

Samsung 860 EVO SSD is tested to have the best performance in an SSDs review. If you want to speed up Windows 10 performance, it is a great idea to clone hard drive to Samsung 860 EVO SSD. There are two tools introduced here for you to clone HDD to Samsung SSD in Windows 10: Samsung Data Migration and iSunshare CloneGo.

• Preparation: Make the Samsung 860 EVO SSD be recognized
• Part 1: Clone HDD to Samsung 860 EVO using Samsung Data Migration
• Part 2: Clone HDD to Samsung 860 EVO using iSunshare CloneGo

Preparation: Make the Samsung 860 EVO SSD be recognized

It is better for you to connect the Samsung SSD with the computer. Or you can directly install the SSD into the computer if there is an available slot. Besides, you should make the SSD recognized by your Windows 10: Right-click This PC and choose Manage to enter the Disk Management; then a box will pop out to ask for the SSD initialization.

Part 1: Clone HDD to Samsung 860 EVO using Samsung Data Migration

 Yes, Samsung develops its own migration tool—Samsung Data Migration Software (SDM) which enables users to migrate data quickly and safely from the existing storage device to a new Samsung SSD. It can apply to any Samsung SSD product, including 470 Series, 830 Series, 840 Series, 840 PRO & EVO Series, 850 PRO & EVO Series, 860 QVO/PRO/EVO Series, 950 PRO Series, 960 PRO & EVO Series, and 970 EVO/EVO Plus/PRO Series.

You can download this software from Samsung official website to clone the current operating system, application software, and user data to the Samsung SSD.

Step 1: Start Samsung Data Migration and choose Target Drive.

Once you start Samsung Data Migration, it will detect your current Windows OS drive as the source drive. What you need to do is select the Samsung SSD as the Target Drive.

Step 2: Select the volume you want to clone from the source drive.

It is available for you to select up to three volumes including the C partition to clone.

Step 3: Click the Start button to begin the cloning process.

Step 4: The data is copying from the source drive to Samsung SSD.

Due to the different computer specifications and operating environment, the cloning speed varies. Thus, it is unable to predict how much time it will cost to clone the data. Additionally, when the cloning process ends, your computer will shut down automatically. As a result, it is no need for you to wait for the ending of cloning.

Notices:

• The software cannot clone a hard drive without an operating system in. So, the source drive must be your system drive.
• The number of volumes in Source Drive chosen to clone should be no more than three.
• It may not clone the dynamic disk to Samsung SSD. 

Part 2: Clone HDD to Samsung 860 EVO using iSunshare CloneGo

No matter you are going to clone the HDD with the operating system or just all the data to Samsung SSD, no matter how many volumes in the source disk, iSunshare CloneGo can help to migrate everything from the original hard drive to your Samsung 860 EVO SSD. Of course, your SSD should be with enough capacity. As an alternative to Samsung Data Migration Software, iSunshare CloneGo can work as the hard drive cloning software to upgrade your computer quickly and safely.

Step 1: Get iSunshare CloneGo on your Windows 10 computer.

You can free download the software from iSunshare official website. There are three days for you to free test the software. It takes a few minutes to download and install the software.

Step 2: Launch iSunshare CloneGo and set the source & target disk.

You can run the software after it finished the installation. After that, the main interface with four main functions is displayed. You need to select the Disk Clone function. Next, you can scroll down to view all disks & volumes. Afterward, select your Windows 10 computer original hard drive as the source disk and Samsung 860 EVO SSD as the target disk.

Step 3: Set the After Finished operation

Everyone knows that there are a larger number of data in the hard drive. As a result, the cloning process would take longer than you’re expected. For those users who are very busy and have several computers, they can set the After Finished settings. For example, if you want to the Windows 10 computer to automatically shut down after successful cloning, you can check After Finished box and select the Shutdown option.

Step 4: Click the Start button

When everything is ready, you can hit the Start button. A small box will pop out, which tells you that the cloning will format the target disk. Hit Yes to continue.

Step 5: The clone in process

The cloning process will start automatically. It is no need for you to walk through the whole process. Just do other job with another computer or have a meeting with others. The computer will do what you set after the process ends.

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How to Clone USB to Another USB in Windows 10/8/7

“I have an old SanDisk 4G USB flash drive which stores all memories of my school life. Now I want to clone them to a larger Kingston 64GB USB flash drive as I’m afraid that the old USB would not work in the future. Is there any way to finish the USB data migration? Thanks!”

There is no doubt that it is convenient to store the data in USB flash drive or USB hard disk. You can carry it to anywhere, for business, for presentation, for a speech and etc. And in order to avoid the data loss, you need to make a backup of the files in the USB drive. No matter you want to clone the USB data to the larger USB drive, to USB portable hard disk, or SSD, you can get two ways to clone the USB to another USB in Windows 10/8/7.

Way 1: Clone the USB with Copy-and-paste Operation

The copy and paste operation is the most common way when you want to transfer the USB data. For the entire USB data, you can also copy the data and then paste on another USB. First of all, you need to make the two USB drive connected to the Windows computer.

Option 1: Open Computer (In Windows 10, click This PC), and you can find all devices connected to the computer. Right-click the USB device you want to clone and then choose the Copy option. Afterward, you can right-click the target USB device and select the Paste option. Finally, the files in the source USB will be copied to another USB.

Option 2: Access the source USB drive and press Ctrl + A to choose all folders and files. Then press Ctrl +C to copy all selected data. In no time, you can access another larger USB drive and then press Ctrl + V to paste all copied data to the target USB. In the end, you just need to wait for the data migration ends.

Way 2: Clone USB Drive in Windows Using iSunshare CloneGo

iSunshare CloneGo is the effective disk cloning software that you can make good use to clone the USB data. It is safe to clone USB data to a larger USB without data loss by using this software. You are offered the free trial version.

How to Copy USB to USB in iSunshare CloneGo: 

You can utilize the Copy feature of iSunshare CloneGo to duplicate the USB data to another USB flash drive. But you will lose the data in the target USB as it will help you to format it.

Step 1: Launch the program and select Copy. At the same time, you can view all volumes detected by the software.

Step 2: Select the USB you want to copy as the source partition and another USB as the target partition.

Step 3: After that, you can click the Start button and confirm the format operation. The program will start the data cloning immediately.

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How to Copy the Internal Hard Drive to an External Hard Drive in Windows

“I suffered a data loss due to the hard drive failure one year ago. And now I want to copy my internal hard drive to an external hard drive in Windows OS. How do I transfer everything from my computer to an external hard drive? Is it possible to clone the hard drive successfully?”

Many Windows users get used to create a backup of the data in case of data loss for a variety of reasons. But if you back up the PC to the external hard drive, it is inconvenient to access the data as you need to restore it. Thus, it is a good idea to clone a whole internal hard drive to external hard drive, which enables you to check the data at any time with any computer.

To clone a hard drive to external drive, you need the professional Windows hard drive cloning software. iSunshare CloneGo is highly recommended here, which can help you to clone hard drive to another hard drive within several simple clicks.  After the cloning, you can get an identical partition layout.

How to Copy the Internal Hard Drive in Windows

First of all, you need to get iSunshare CloneGo on your Windows computer. You can free download and install it within minutes. For the new users, it offers a free trial of all functions.

Step 1: Connect the external hard drive with the computer. If there are any other data stored in the external hard drive, you should create a backup of it. Or you need to get a new external hard drive as the hard drive clone will wipe all the data on the external hard drive.

Step 2: Launch iSunshare CloneGo and tick Disk Clone option on the left menu.

On this interface, you can know how many disks are connected to the computer and how many volumes are detected by the software. Each volume is marked with the total space and available space.

Step 3: Select the source disk—the internal hard drive, and the target disk—the external hard drive. Also, if the computer is stored with a large number of data, you can check the After Finish box and choose Shutdown/Restart/ Hibernate.

Step 4: Click the Start button and you will know that this operation will format the data on the external hard drive. If you want to go ahead, click the Yes button and the data will be cloned to the external hard drive instantly.

After the cloning, you will get the identical partitions on the external hard drive. If you want to test whether the OS configurations, settings, and data can be bootable or not, you can try to boot the computer from the external hard drive.

Tips:

1. If you want to resize the external hard drive after cloning process ends, you can open Disk Management and then extend or shrink the volume. Also, you can add new simple volume from the unallocated space.
2. It is better to clone the disk with the same partition styles, such as Clone GPT disk to GPT disk.
3. The external hard drive should be larger than the internal hard drive; otherwise, it is impossible to clone the disk.
4. You can also use the Disk Clone feature to clone an HDD to an external SSD for computer upgrade.

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How to Speed Up Windows 10 Boot/Startup Time

Do you feel your Windows 10 boot or startup slowly? Are you finding effective ways to speed up Windows 10 boot time? You can get 4 effective ways in this article.

• Way 1: Disable Auto Start Programs to Speed up Windows 10 Startup
• Way 2: Free up System Space to Speed up Boot Time
• Way 3: Enable Fast Startup to Increase Boot Speed
• Way 4: Shorten the Boot Menu Timeout to Improve Boot Time

Way 1: Disable Auto Start Programs to Speed up Windows 10 Startup

When it comes to the slow boot up issue on Windows 10, you should go to check how many programs to start up with the Windows system. If there are too many programs booting at the same time, the boot time will be definitely longer. Thus, you can disable some unnecessary startup apps to speed up Windows 10 startup.

Step 1: Open Task Manager and then click the Startup tab.

Step 2: Then you can select the program or app that you think is unnecessary to enable in the list of automatically starting programs. In the end, click the Disable button on the bottom right corner.

Way 2: Free up System Space to Speed up Boot-Time

When your Windows 10 computer is almost full, the Windows boot time will be postponed. In this situation, you can go to free up system space to speed up boot time. Most people said the boot time is improved obviously after they do cleaning for the Windows PC.

Here you can use iSunshare System Genius to free up disk space with simple steps. It can also help you clean up junk files and invalid registry entries to improve computer performance.

Step 1: Download and install iSunshare System Genius. It is free to download and have 3-day for a free trial of all functions.

Step 2: Select System Disk option on the left menu. After that, it will tell you how much space you can get after the cleaning. With a simple click on the Release button, you will remove all the junk files on the system disk.

Step 3: If you think there can be more space to release, you can go to click the Clean All option on the left menu.  Next, click the Scan button on the center to analyze the useless files that can be deleted from your computer.

Step 4: Minutes later, you can get the result and click the Clean button to remove all those files from your Windows 10 computer.

The cleaning ends and you can close the software and reboot the computer. Believe it or not, with the space released, your boot time can be improved greatly.

Way 3: Enable Fast Startup to Increase Boot Speed

The Fast Startup function enables you to start the PC faster after the shutdown. It is recommended to turn it on.

Step 1: Open Control Panel and select Power Options.

Step 2: On the Power Option interface, click Choose what the power buttons do on its left panel.

Step 3: After that, you can choose the power settings that you want for your computer. Just go to click Change Settings that are currently unavailable.

Step 4: Then, you can check the box next to Turn on fast startup option. In the end, click Save the changes button to apply your setting.

Way 4: Shorten the Boot Menu Timeout to Improve Boot-Time

You can change the system startup settings to reduce the boot time. Firstly, access Control Panel> System> Advanced system settings. Then you need to hit Settings under the Startup and Recovery section. After that, you can adjust the time to display list of operating systems. Finally, click OK to save the changes.

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