When you want to prevent theft of or damage to data by using a floppy disk
You may choose to protect the data on your computer from being accessed illegally or over- written accidentally by using a floppy disk. You can also set your computer to be unbootable from a floppy disk.
NOTE
To prevent the use of floppy disks altogether, you may also choose to remove the floppy disk drive ( 
page 22).
Preventing the use of a floppy disk
Even when one tries to access a floppy disk,
Procedure
1 Run the Setup Utility ( 
page 36)
This error message is displayed.
2 Using 
and 
, select [Supervisor Setup] then press 
3 Using 
and 
, select [Boot Up Drive] then set either [HDD
FDD] or [CDD 
FDD 
HDD] with 
CAUTION
When changing to [HDD 
FDD] or [CDD 
FDD 
HDD] setting, to continue read/write operation from a floppy disk and to use the hard disk drive or
and go to step 5.
4
5
Using the 
and 
, select [Floppy Operation], set [Disable]
with 
then press 
Close the Setup Utility ( 
page 36)
When you do not want your Supervisor Setup changed without permission
Set the Supervisor Password. After it has been set, no changes can be made to the Supervisor
settings unless the password is entered.
When the supervisor password is set
In the Setup Utility ( 
page 36),
if 
is displayed,
Input the correct supervisor password and press 
,
When the supervisor password is incorrect or when the user password is entered, (Or, even when the correct su- pervisor password is entered. ( 
page 31))
Supervisor Setup
May be
Opened
Supervisor Setup
Can not be
Opened
NOTE
(There are cases in which the Supervisor Setup does
not appear on the main screen ( 
page 36)).
You may wish to protect the User Password ( 
page 20).
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