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User’s Manual 6-17
Power and Power-Up Modes
■ Delete (button)
Click this button to delete a registered password. Before you can delete
a password, you must first enter the current password correctly or insert
a proper token.
Please use BIOS Setup to change or delete the HDD Passwords or to
set the HDD Master Password.
■ Change (button)
Click this button to change a registered password. Before you can
change a password, you must first enter the current password correctly
or insert a proper token.
Please use BIOS Setup to change or delete the HDD Passwords or to
set the HDD Master Password.
■ Owner String (text box)
You can use this box to associate text with the password. After you
enter text, click Apply or OK. When the computer is started, this text will
be displayed together with the prompt asking you to enter a password.
■ After you set the password, a dialog box will be displayed asking
whether you want to save it to a floppy disk or other media. If you forget
the password, you can open the password file on another computer. Be
sure to keep the media in a safe place.
■ When entering the character string to register the password, enter from
the keyboard character by character and do not enter as ASCII code or
copy-and-paste the character string. In addition, ensure that the
registered password is correct by outputting the character string to the
password file.
■ If you forget your HDD User Password, TOSHIBA will NOT be able to
assist you, and your HDD will be rendered COMPLETELY and
PERMANENTLY INOPERABLE. TOSHIBA will NOT be held
responsible for any loss of any data, any loss of use or access to your
HDD, or for any other losses to you or any other person or organization
that result from the loss of access to your HDD. If you cannot accept
this risk, don’t register the HDD User Password.
■ When setting the HDD Master Password or the password for the Slim
Select Bay HDD, save the HDD User Password settings in the BIOS
SETUP Program.
■ When saving the HDD User Password shut down or restart the
computer. If the computer is not shut down or restarted, the saved data
may not be correctly reflected. For more information on shutting down
or restarting the computer, refer to Turning on the power in Chapter 3.
Refer to Starting and Ending the BIOS Setup Program section in Chapter 7
for more information.