NEC PowerMate 2000 Series Release Notes 9
3.
Highlight
Assign HDD Password
and press
Enter
.
If you enter the current master password, you are prompted to enter a new master
password.
If you enter the current user password, you are prompted to enter the new user
password.
If you do not want to establish a new master or user password, press
Esc
instead of
entering a new password.
4.
Save the changes and exit BIOS setup.
Using Hard Disk Drive Password Protection
To facilitate the transfer of one or more HDDs between systems, establish a single master
password (and store the password in a secure place). Forgetting your master password results in
the inability to access the data on your hard drive. Establish different user passwords to limit
access to specific systems.
If you set the master and user password on a hard drive, you can never
remove the passwords. You can change the passwords. If you forget the master password and
install the drive in another system, you cannot access the data on the hard drive.
Once you set these passwords, NEC Computers Inc. has no capability of removing them.
If you install the hard drive in another PowerMate system with hard disk drive security enabled,
you must enter the password to allow access to the hard drive. If this PowerMate system does
not support hard disk drive security, you cannot access the data on the hard drive.
With hard disk drive security enabled on the original NEC PowerMate 2000 series system, the
system boots normally.
If you install the hard drive in another NEC PowerMate system with security enabled, you must
enter the master password to access the hard drive. If the hard drive is installed in another NEC
PowerMate 2000 system with security disabled, the system prompts you to enter the master
password and then a new user password.
Moving the Hard Drive
When a password protected hard drive is moved from its original system and installed in another
system, error messages appear indicating that the drive is locked. Next, the Security Setup
screen appears requiring the user to enter the master password to unlock the drive. Enter the
master password, when prompted.
To take advantage of HDD password protection in another system, the system must be equipped
with the same HDD password protection feature. To determine if the system has HDD password
protection, check the Security menu in the BIOS Setup to see if there are provisions for
establishing HDD passwords.
Setting Boot Order in BIOS
To use the CD-ROM drive as a boot device, the BIOS must list it before the hard drive and/or
before the network.
The system does not boot from a Zip
®
drive if it is listed as the first boot device.
