USB Flash Drive Copy Protection Services

Copy Protection services are available for your USB Flash Drives at Media Supply. When preloading data, there are many options like Data-locking, Secure Partitions and Unique drive serial numbers. Call us at 1-800-944-4237, option 3 or send us a information request with your questions, for a custom quote or to place your custom order.

Data-locking (Non-erasable content)

Data-locking will store your data permanently on the drive, ensuring that it is not erased. Data locking requires the drives to be partitioned into two parts. One part can be used like a normal flash drive: files can be loaded, opened and deleted as usual. The second part shows up on the computer as a CD-Rom drive and contains the locked data which cannot be deleted or edited. Note: Mac users cannot see the locked part of the drive.

Password-locking the drive

We can also password lock the entire USB drive without any pre-loaded data. This way, the user can set their own password when they first receive the drive and secure their own data with a password of their choosing. Note: password lock will not work on MAC computers.

Why doesn't it work on Mac?

USB pens don't follow the same format as a DVD or CD disc, so in making a disc Data-Locked or Password Protected a partition of the USB Flash Drive is formatted to look like a disc image to a PC. Features like Auto-start and these secure features use this partition to get your PC to work with them. The latest Mac OS's (Tiger & Leopard) no longer support Auto-Start volumes, so the cannot take advantage of these programming tools. The positive side for Mac users, USB is handled much more cleanly in the Unix platform the Mac OS runs on, so you can work with USB devices much more easily.

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