Encrypt external hard drive

[Charles Minus]

All I want to do is safeguard an external hard drive. All the encryption software I have reviewed comes with paragraphs of jargon I don't understand and do not want to invest the effort to learn. Is there an easy way to do this? I would be happy if there were just a password for the hard drive but that doesn't exist I guess. Any help would activate lavish thank youse.

 

[Bighorn]

One way that may work is to compress the contents of the external drive and assigned a password when wanting to get to that data. Or the same for folder of individual files. I use WinZip for it, 7-Zip may have the same.

 

[Charles Minus]

Wow, an idea that I understand and makes real sense. I think this may just the ticket. Thanks, pal.