I've been putting off clearing out some room on my hard drive for a long time, and it's finally caught up with me. I now have only around 300MB left. Over time, to clear up space, i've slowly removed all old programs and files I no longer needed.

Now, i'm left with a hard drive packed full of only important things. The only deletable things left are a ton of personal files and other similar items -- which simply cannot be deleted. I now need to move them into storage on a DVD-rom to free up some desperately needed space.

Here is my problem. Most of these files are sensitive, and if I am going to have them on a DVD, I want it to be password protected, preferably double-password protected in order to shelter the filenames as well. I know with Winzip I can do this, but to create the zipped file, I must have enough harddrive space to hold the file. And I don't. All of the files together make up around 2GB.

What can I do? I would prefer to password protect them with Windows if possible or at least with Winzip. I wouldn't want to use a 3rd-party encryption software that may not work in the future when I need to get to the files. Does anyone have some suggestions?

Thanks!

Hi Mark, welcome to the PCHF.

I'd stick with your Winzip idea..but to get enough room...it's going to require juggeling around the files abit.

First, burn the files to CD/DVD without doing anything else...just burning them (keep reading)
Second, check to make sure the burn worked and the files are all on the cd....
Third, delete those files off the computer.
Fouth, Zip the rest in whichever way you want. Burn to disc.
Fifth, copy original files back to computer. Make sure data is not corrupt again.
Sixth, put the disc in the microwave for no more then 3 seconds and watch it.
Seventh, zip those files and burn to disc.

Confirm that the zipped discs are working fine
And off you go

First, make sure you have microwave safe discs. LOL Thats pretty cool GaRHaR , ive put alot of stuff in a microwave messing around, but never a disc. That makes a pretty neat coaster. Try a flourescent bulb sometime......WARNING: Dont try this at home!!! LOL

EDIT: It also makes them slightly unreadable. LOL

Hehe...yea I've got a video of an internal mode...the thing was on fire

Only thing with the coasters...is the labels start to peel off...so they only last a few weeks or so