Encrypt a USB Flash drive without pc software

amateurhour

So I've got this user that's paranoid that their computer's hard drive is going to fail. Even though the fail rate for laptop workstations in any moderate office (200 terminals or more) is around 10 percent, we've had three users crash their drives this week alone.

Anyway....

They bought a USB flash drive and asked me to encrypt it for them so they could back up important work documents. Here's the problem though... The workstations do not have admin rights, and even if they did I'm not going to install third party software on them. So TrueCrypt is out unfortunately.

What I'm looking for is a way to encrypt the flash drive with a simple password protection so the user will "technically" be the only one that can access the files.

Also just telling the user to password protect each of their MS Office Documents is not an option, there's way to many of them.

Thanks in advance for the help!

amateurhour

Nevermind, this thread can be closed, and I'm an idiot.

We've got McAffee endpoint encryption as part of our software package on the terminals and that allows you to secure a flash drive and use it on any other machine without the need for admin rights or a local software installation on another machine.

Thanks!