Windows 10: Encrypted Folder & Files on a Backup Hard Drive

Hello, I'm having an issue with a Single Folder on my BackUp Drive D: being Encrypted. Neither the Folder or any of the subfolders, show as Encrypted. However every file in the Folder and Subfolders are "Encrypt Contents to Secure Data". Errors belowHow it happened: I had a hardware issue, which required replacing. After replacing, I updated and reset BIOS, while also reinstalling Windows on my C: drive. This made the folder on D: think it was encrypted from a different device.Again this is a single folder with many Subfolders and Files on my main backup drive. I have the Recovery K

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Using network hard drive for backup

It depends what sort of backup you want to do. If you're happy just backing up regular files, then there are a bazillion (really, that many!) different bits of freeware to do that. There is a good list here:

Download Back Up Tools for Windows - MajorGeeks

and pretty much all of them can do network backups. Some even have fancy options like encryption. Really, the most useful thing is just being able to schedule them and know they ran OK.

You may also want to make a system image backup too, and you'll find that software in the very same list.

I don't have Windows 8 as yet, so I'm afraid I can't suggest any for that platform. Personally, I use Clonezilla for image backups.

 

Private folders encrypted and password protected folders

How good is the encryption?

I use the encrypted file approach and mount it to a drive letter. I like having all those files in the same place and I can copy it to any other computer or backup it up to ftp, server or whatever. All I need is to have a copy of TC installed at the new location. I'm guessing the priv folders feature is like NTFS file security except, would you be able to take ownership on the new machine?

IDK.

If you need solid and/or multi-layer encryption, you have to at least look at TC.

 

Private folders encrypted and password protected folders

give it ago just install it im only using it to lock down folders and files at the moment, you can move and copy the Private folders to other pc's you will need it installed on the other pc so you can open it, they work in the same way mounting the folders.