User`s guide

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Keeping Your Files Safe
Hard disk drive passwords - Windows 2000
Deleting the hard disk drive user password
HINT: You must delete the hard disk drive user password
before you can delete the hard disk drive master password.
To delete a hard disk drive user password:
1 Connect your diskette drive. For instructions, see
“Connecting an external diskette drive” on page 64 or
“Inserting a module into the Slim SelectBay®” on
page 73, depending upon the type of diskette drive you have.
2 Click Start, then click Run.
3 In the Run box, type:
c:\toshiba\hddpwd32 and press Enter.
The Hard Disk Drive Password program, HDDPWD32,
displays a warning screen.
4 To delete the hard disk drive user password, type
1 and
press
Enter.
To quit without deleting the password, type
3 and press Enter.
HDDPWD32 displays another warning and asks you whether
you want to delete the hard disk drive user password.
5 To delete the hard disk drive user password, type
Y.
To exit without deleting the password, type
N.
If you choose
Y, HDDPWD32 prompts you to enter your
password.
6 Type your password and press
Enter.
If the password you typed matches the registered hard disk
drive user password, the password is deleted. Any password
service diskette made with the password is now no longer
valid.