Establishing Hard Disk Drive Passwords; Changing Hard Disk Drive Passwords - NEC POWERMATE 2000 Service And Reference Manual

Establishing Hard Disk Drive Passwords

To establish password protection for your 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.
1. Boot your system. Press
BIOS setup screen appears
2. Using the arrow keys, select the Security menu.
3. Highlight
you to enter a master password.
4. Enter a master HDD password and press Enter. The system prompts you to
reenter the password to verify.
5. Reenter the master HDD password and press Enter. The system confirms the
creation of the master password and prompts you to enter a user password.
6. Enter a user password and press Enter. The system prompts you to reenter
the password to verify.
7. Reenter the user password and press Enter.
8. Highlight and select Internal HDD Password. Use the + (plus) and – (minus)
keys to enable the selection. (This enables password protection for the
internal HDD.)

Changing Hard Disk Drive Passwords

Use the following procedure to change hard disk drive passwords.
1. Boot your system. Press F2 when prompted to enter BIOS Setup.
2. At the Main BIOS setup screen, select the Security menu.
F2 when prompted to enter BIOS setup. The Main
Assign HDD Password and press Enter . The system prompts
PM 2000 Series Release Notes A-9