Completely Resetting The Secure Hard Drive; Initializing And Formatting The Secure Hard Drive After A Complete Reset - Lenovo ThinkPad User Manual

Completely resetting the Secure Hard Drive

If you forget all the User Passwords or Admin Passwords, you can perform a
complete reset to remove all the User Passwords, and restore the Admin
Password to the default 123456.
Attention: Completely resetting the Secure Hard Drive will erase all the data
on the drive. You will need to partition and format the Secure Hard Drive with
disk management applications.
To perform a complete reset of the drive, do the following:
1. Press and hold the
an available USB port on your computer. The indicator light will flash blue
and red alternately.
Note: If no activity is detected for 30 seconds in this step, the Secure Hard
Drive will go into the Standby Mode.
2. Press and hold +
solid green for three seconds. You have successfully reset the Secure Hard
Drive.
Initializing and formatting the Secure Hard Drive after a
complete reset
A complete reset of the Secure Hard Drive will erase all information and
partition settings. You will need to initialize and format the Secure Hard Drive.
To initialize your Secure Hard Drive, do the following:
1. After a complete reset, attach the Secure Hard Drive to the computer.
2. Enter the default User Password 123456 and press
Mode.
3. Wait until the operating system successfully installs all the USB device
drivers for the Secure Hard Drive.
4. Right-click My computer, and then click Manage from the Windows
desktop.
5. In the Computer Manage window, click Disk Management. In the Disk
Management window, the Secure Hard Drive is recognized as an
unknown device that is uninitialized and unallocated.
6. Do one of the following to make the drive recognized as a basic drive.
v If the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard window opens, click Next →
Next → Finish.
v If the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard window does not open:
a. Right-click Unknown Disk, and then select Initialize Disk.
b. In the Initialize Disk window, click OK.
button while you attach the Secure Hard Drive to
+ 2 for 10 seconds until the indicator light turns
Using the Secure Hard Drive
to enter the User
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