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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
required 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.
1.
Enter the BIOS setup, highlight and select the System Security Setup.
Highlight Assign HDD Password and press
2.
The system prompts you to enter a master password.
3.
Enter a master HDD password and press
The system prompts you to enter the password again to verify.
Enter the master password and press
4.
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.
6.
Enter the user password and press
Highlight and select Internal HDD Password and use the
7.
enable the selection. (Follow this step to enable password protection for the
internal HDD.)
.
Enter
Enter
.
.
Enter
.
Enter
Enter
.
Using the BIOS Setup Utility 3-9
keys to
PgUp/PgDn
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