Settings tab (Encryption rule)

On the Settings tab you can use the default settings or select the following options:

  • Use administrative password. Don’t prompt user: If you enable this option, the storage device will be encrypted with the administrative password only. Users are not prompted to enter their own password during encryption.
  • Prompt user for encryption password: This setting prompts the user for their own password.

  • Attempt to mount using administrative password first: Initially, the user is not asked for their own password. The user will only be prompted for their own password if DriveLock cannot load the storage device automatically, for example, when the administrative password does not match.

    This option requires that you have set an administrative password in the Encrypted drive recovery rules.

  • Disable any administrative password for new drives: Once a user has set a personal password, the administrative password is deleted when encrypting the USB storage device. This means that the encrypted data can only be accessed by entering the user password.

  • Users can disable administrative password for new drives: Select this option to allow users to create "private" USB storage devices without using the administrative password.

  • Use entire drive for encrypted container: DriveLock uses the full available disk space for encryption. When a drive contains data that will be encrypted, DriveLock needs to estimate how much space is available for the encrypted container when it will be copied to the removable drive. This may result in some space not being used by the encrypted drive.

  • Fill any remaining empty space on drives: Select this checkbox to have DriveLock fill this remaining space to ensure that users can’t inadvertently copy data to the unencrypted space when using the drive on a computer where encryption is not enforced. DriveLock creates a hidden system file sized appropriately for this purpose.

  • Leave empty space of x KB: In some Windows 7 environments a few kilobytes of space must remain available for the operating system to access a drive.

  • Leave unencrypted space on drives: Select this option if you do not want to use the full space on a drive for encryption. Specify a quantity and define whether the number should be understood as an absolute value or as a percentage value.

  • Maximum size of encrypted container x MB: Here you can define the maximum size of the encrypted container.