Establishing Hard Disk Drive Passwords
To establish password protection for your system’s hard disk drive you must establish a master password, establish a user password, and enable the established passwords for the internal HDD. Follow these steps to establish HDD passwords and to enable HDD password protection.
If you set the master and user password on a hard drive, password security can never be disabled. Passwords can be changed. If the master password is forgotten and the drive is installed in another system, you cannot access the data on the hard drive.
If the hard drive is installed in another NEC Versa system with hard disk drive security enabled, the password must be entered to allow access to the hard drive. If this NEC
Versa system does not support hard disk drive security, you cannot access the data on the hard drive.
1.Enter the BIOS setup, highlight and select the Security menu.
2.Highlight Assign HDD Password and press Enter. The system prompts you to enter a master password.
3.Enter a master HDD password and press Enter.
The system prompts you to enter the password again to verify.
4.Enter the master password and press Enter.
The system confirms the creation of the master password and prompts you to enter a user password.
5.Enter a user password and press Enter.
The system prompts you to enter the password again to verify.
6.Enter the user password and press Enter.
7.Highlight and select Internal HDD Password and use the F5/F6 keys to enable the selection. (This enables password protection for the internal HDD.)
Changing Hard Disk Drive Passwords
To change hard disk drive passwords, enter the Security Setup, highlight Assign HDD Password, press Enter, and enter the current password that you wish to change. 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 wish to establish a new master or user password, press Esc instead of entering a new password.
