As a backup and scratch space, I purchased a 3 terabyte external USB drive. To try encryption, I considered using the
Microsoft Windows 8 BitLocker drive encryption. With
Microsoft giving user information to the NSA, I am
weary of placing trust in Microsoft. Looking for alternatives, I tried
TrueCrypt disk encryption.
Installing TrueCrypt on a Microsoft Windows 8 disk:
While
not explicitly supported,
download and install the package.
Read the
beginner tutorial and run the program.