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Something I hardly see mentioned here is encryption for data such as on your PC. My modus operandi is to encrypt all the things. This is a little .bat script I came up with to lock all drives, except the C: drive, all in one click.

It resides on my desktop as an icon, and i can lock all drives in a couple seconds vs doing it drive by drive.

Not sure if anyone here could use it, but I thought I'd share. I am sure that some of you real coders here could fine tune it a bit, and I'd be open to suggestions.

@echo off
REM Script to lock multiple BitLocker drives with admin privileges

REM Check for administrative privileges
net session >nul 2>&1
if %errorlevel% neq 0 (
    echo This script requires administrative privileges.
    echo Requesting elevation...
    REM Create a VBS script to trigger UAC prompt
    echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
    echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
    cscript //nologo "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
    del "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
    exit /b
)

REM List of drives to lock
set drives=D: G: I: H: E: F: P: J:

REM Loop through each drive and lock it
for %%d in (%drives%) do (
    echo Locking drive %%d...
    manage-bde -lock %%d -ForceDismount
)

echo All specified drives have been locked.
pause
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