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4. Using the Freecom Hard Drive Protection Tool (Mac)
Your Freecom ToughDrive is equipped with a password protection feature. This provides
the best possible protection. Your data is always protected, even if the internal hard drive
is taken out of the enclosure and connected to a computer, you still will not be able to
access the data.
If your Mac is shut down or sent to hibernation, we recommend to completely discon-
necting the ToughDrive from your Mac in order to reactivate the password protection.
Some Macs keep USB devices supplied with power when being in hibernation mode,
therefore you remain logged in with your password.
4..1 Configuring the password protection
1. Connect your Freecom ToughDrive to your Mac. A Hard Disk Drive ("FREECOM HDD")
and a Virtual CD-ROM Drive ("Password") will appear.
The Virtual CD-ROM Drive is an undeletable partition on your ToughDrive on which
the Freecom Hard Drive Protection software is stored. This ensures that you always
have the password protection application available when needed, it can not be ac-
cidentally deleted.
2. Open the CD-ROM drive and double-click on "Password".
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