NEC 2000 Series Hard Drive Security

3-24 Configuring the System
Exit Menu
Choose the Exit Menu by select i ng Exit in the legend bar on th e Main
Menu screen. Other Exi t M en u op ti ons are available by select i ng
submenus.
Use the arrow keys to select on e of the Exit Menu options an d press Enter
to select a submenu. Explan ations of each Exit Menu i t em are in the
following table.
Exit Menu Items
Menu Item Settings (default is bold)
Exit Saving Changes Implements the changes just made, and
exits BIOS.
Exit Discarding Changes Exit leaving BIOS unchanged.
Load Setup Defaults Loads default values for all BIOS setup
fields.
Discard Changes Load previous values from BIOS for all
setup fields.
Save Changes Saves all setup value changes to BIOS.
Hard Drive Security
Your NEC PowerMate 2000 series system allows establishing password
protection for the interna l hard drive. Ha rd disk drive ( HD D ) password
protection restr icts access to th e drive only if the drive is removed from
the PowerMate 2000 series system and installed in another system. The
system does n ot prompt you to en ter your HDD pa sswords whil e the drive
remains in the current s ystem .
The HDD passwords are writ ten to the system BIOS and to th e har d drive
to ensure that the password protection travels with the drive if it is moved
to another system.