Spy der Mann's Journal: Securing your USB Thumbdrive with TrueCrypt

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Here's the important stuff.

Since it would not ve convenient to perform several steps everytime you run want to access files from your thumbdrive, we need to create two very simple batch files that call instructions from TrueCrypt automatically to open and close your protected drive.1. Create a file called mount.bat on the root directory of your USB drive (i.e. J:\mount.bat) Open it with notepad and type in the following:

        TrueCrypt /v tcFolder /l K /m rm /auto /qexplorer K:

The first line will create a virtual drive with letter K which will be your protected drive. You can choose another letter instead of K (it must not be assigned to another drive).

The second line is optional and it will just open an explorer window pointing to your protected drive everytime you mount it.

2. Create a file called umount.bat on the root directory of your USB drive (i.e. J:\umount.bat)

Open it with notepad and type in the following:

        TrueCrypt /d K /q

This will unmount the secure volume. Remember to change K here too if you did before.

3. Create a file called Autorun.inf on the root directory of your USB drive (i.e. J:\Autorun.inf)

Open it with notepad and type in the following:
[autorun]open=mount.baticon=

If you want your USB drive to show a different icon on My PC, you can specify an icon name and put that icon file into the root directory of the drive.

This will make it so that every time you connect your drive to the computer, it will ask for the password immediately. Thus, making it faster and easier to access the protected drive. This step is optional if you dont want it to load automatically, on which case you would have to connect the device and then manually execute mount.bat.