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

CD-ROM to start, press 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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