Passport protect my Possport Elite Drive

Hello,

I have WD My Passport Elite 500Gb drive that I formated to NTFS to use it with Windows 7 System Image Backup.

Is there anyway I can password protect access to this drive? Is there some WD software that I can download?

Please let me know.

Sure my friend just download the WD smartware on the link provided and you will be able to password protect the drive as you wish.

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=210&lang=en

Here is a link with video instruction on seting up your password

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3741/p/228,195,313/session/L3RpbWUvMTMwNjUzMTEzNy9zaWQvMWpsaG0xdms%3D