How to make an encryption U disk in Mac system?

Many friends have their own U disk and mobile hard disk, we often transfer files between computers. Have you ever wondered how to make a USB flash drive in a Mac system?

Mac OS X Lion allows you to format a USB disk or hard disk so that it can encrypt the contents of the data inside. And you need to enter a password every time you insert it to verify, so that others can not peek at my U-disk content.

But doing so can only be used on systems on Mac OS X, in a very early version of Mac, Linux, and windows are unable to recognize your USB drive. In later articles, MACGG will teach you how to make encrypted files that are identified on all platforms.

We still enter the topic today, do a USB drive with encryption function. In the process you will need to prepare a USB flash drive of any capacity or a removable hard disk, and make sure there are no important files in it. The Beginning ~ ~

Open Disk Utility (finder-> Application-> utility) inside the MAC system and plug your storage device (U disk, removable hard disk) into your computer.

Locate your storage device in the list on the left side of disk utility and select it.

Select the Erase column in the Disk utility. Then select "Mac OS extensions (log, encrypt)" in the "format" pull-down menu, and then type your USB memory stick name.

Click the "Erase" button, and then set your password in the pop-up window, OK.

Good encryption u disk production success.