Protect Your Data By Encrypting Your Hard Drive; Displaying Encryption Status - HP ProBook 6445b - Notebook PC User Manual

NOTE: If the Windows administrator has enabled Pre-boot Security in the HP ProtectTools Security
Manager, you will log in to the computer immediately after the computer is turned on, rather than at the
Drive Encryption login screen.
1. Click your user name, and then type your Windows password or Java™ Card PIN, or swipe a
registered finger.
2. Click OK.
NOTE: If you use a recovery key to log in at the Drive Encryption login screen, you will also be
prompted to select your Windows user name and type your password at the Windows login screen.

Protect your data by encrypting your hard drive

Use the HP ProtectTools Setup Wizard to protect your data by encrypting your hard drive:
1. In Security Manager, click Getting Started, and then click the Security Manager Setup icon. A
demonstration that describes the Security Manager features starts. (You can also start Security
Manager from the "Drive Encryption" page.)
2. In the left pane, click Drive Encryption, and then click Encryption Management.
3. Click Change Encryption.
4. Select the drive or drives to be encrypted.
NOTE:

Displaying encryption status

Users can display encryption status from HP ProtectTools Security Manager.
NOTE: Changes to drive encryption status must be made by using the HP ProtectTools Administrative
Console.
1. Open HP ProtectTools Security Manager.
2. Under My Data, click Encryption Status.
If Drive Encryption is active, the drive status displays one of the following status codes:
●
Active
●
Inactive
●
Not encrypted
● Encrypted
● Encrypting
●
Decrypting
If the hard drive is in the process of being encrypted or decrypted, a progress bar idisplays the
percentage completed and the time remaining to complete the encryption or decryption.
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It is highly recommended that you encrypt the hard drive.