Hard Disk Drive Passwords; Establishing Hard Disk Drive Passwords - NEC VERSA DAYLITE E120 User Manual

Hard Disk Drive Passwords

Your NEC Versa allows you to establish password protection for the internal hard disk
drive. Hard disk drive (HDD) password protection restricts access to the drive, only if
the drive is removed from your NEC Versa and installed in another system. You are not
prompted to enter your hard disk drive passwords while the drive remains in your
current system.
The HDD passwords are written to the system BIOS and to the hard disk drive to
ensure that the password protection travels with the drive when moved from system to
system.

Establishing Hard Disk Drive Passwords

To establish password protection for your system's hard disk drive you must establish a
master password, establish a user password, and enable the established passwords for
the internal HDD. Follow these steps to establish HDD passwords and to enable HDD
password protection.
password security can never be disabled. Passwords can be changed. If the master
password is forgotten and the drive is installed in another system, you cannot access
the data on the hard drive.
If the hard drive is installed in another NEC Versa system with hard disk drive security
enabled, the password must be entered to allow access to the hard drive. If this NEC
Versa system does not support hard disk drive security, you cannot access the
data on the hard drive.
Enter the BIOS setup, highlight and select the Security menu.
1.
2. Highlight Assign HDD Password and press
The system prompts you to enter a master password.
Enter a master HDD password and press
3.
The system prompts you to enter the password again to verify.
4. Enter the master password and press
The system confirms the creation of the master password and prompts you to enter
a user password.
Enter a user password and press
5.
The system prompts you to enter the password again to verify.
Enter the user password and press
6.
3-10 Using the BIOS Setup Utility
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