Hard Drive Security; Establishing Hard Drive Passwords; Exit Menu Items - NEC POWERMATE 2000 Service And Reference Manual

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Hard Drive Security

The NEC PowerMate 2000 series system allows establishing password
protection for the internal hard drive. Hard disk drive (HDD) password
protection restricts access to the drive only if the drive is removed from the
PowerMate 2000 series system and installed in another system. The system does
not prompt you to enter the HDD passwords while the drive remains in the
current system.
The HDD passwords are written to the system BIOS and to the hard drive to
ensure that the password protection travels with the drive if it is moved to
another system.

Establishing Hard Drive Passwords

To establish password protection for the system's hard drive, you must establish
a master password, establish a user password, and enable the established
passwords for the internal hard drive. Use the following procedure to establish
HDD passwords and to enable HDD password protection.
If you set the master and user password on a hard drive, you
can never remove the passwords. You can change the
passwords. If you forget the master password and install the
drive in another system, you cannot access the data on the
hard drive.
Once you set these passwords, NEC Computers Inc. has
no capability of removing them.
If you install the hard drive in another PowerMate system
with hard disk drive security enabled, you must enter the
password to allow access to the hard drive. If this
PowerMate system does not support hard disk drive
security, you cannot access the data on the hard drive.
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