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How do you lock the hard drive?

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10y ago
Updated: 1/3/2024

For the users of Win 7 Ultimate or Enterprise or Win 8, they can use BitLocker to lock hard drive. But for people on other OSes, they can only lock the hard drive with 3rd party software such as Kakasoft Advanced Folder Encryption.

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