Acer Ferrari 1200, Service Manual

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Acer eLock Management
Acer eLock Management is simple yet effective utility that allows you to lock removable storage, optical and
floppy drive devices to ensure that data can't be stolen while your system is unattended.
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Removable Storage Devices — includes USB disk drives, USB pen drives, USB flash drives, USB MP3
drives, USB memory card readers, IEEE 1394 disk drives, and any other removable storage devices
that can be mounted as a file system when plugged into the system.
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Optical Drive Devices — includes any kind of CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, HD-DVD or Blu-ray drive devices.
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Floppy Drive Devices — 3.5-inch floppy drives only.
To use Acer eLock Management, the Empowering Technology password must be set first. Once set, you can
apply locks to any of the devices types. Lock(s) will immediately be set without any reboot necessary, and will
remain after rebooting, until removed.
NOTE: If you lose the Empowering Technology password, there is no method to reset it except by reformatting
your system. Make sure to remember or write down your password.
Acer eRecovery Management
Acer eRecovery Management is a versatile backup utility. It allows you to create full or incremental backups,
burn the factory default image to optical disc, and restore from previously created backups or reinstall
applications and drivers. By default, user-created backups are stored to the D:\ drive.
Acer eRecovery Management provides you with:
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Password protection (Empowering Technology password)
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Full and incremental backups to hard disk or optical disc
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Creation of backups:
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Factory default image