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, 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.
With hard disk drive security enabled on the original NEC Versa system, the system boots normally.
If the hard drive is installed in another NEC Versa system with security enabled, you must enter the master password to access the hard disk drive. If the hard drive is installed in another NEC Versa system with security disabled, the system boots with no password required.
Moving the Hard Disk Drive
When a password protected HDD 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. Highlight the HDD password line and 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 that system has HDD password, check the Security Setup in the BIOS Setup to see if there are provisions for establishing HDD passwords.
