User Guide

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Keeping Your Files Safe
Hard disk drive passwords
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7 When System Setup prompts you to verify the password,
type it again and press
Enter.
If the two passwords match, System Setup displays:
Registered. If the two passwords do not match, an error
message appears. Repeat step 6 and step 7 to enter the
password again.
8 Press
End to save the change.
9 When System Setup prompts you to confirm your
change, press
Y.
Deleting or changing a hard disk drive user only password in
System Setup
To delete or change a user only password in System Setup:
1 Click Start, Shutdown, and then OK.
The computer shuts down.
2 Hold down the
Esc key and press and hold the power
button until the on/off light on the system indicator panel
illuminates (green) for approximately one second. When
the following message appears on the screen: “Check
system, Then press [F1] key,” press
F1.
The System Setup screen appears.
3 Press H to move to the HDD PASSWORD section on the
screen.
4 Press the spacebar, then type in your user password and
press
Enter.
5 If you want to change the password, input the new
password. If you want to delete the password, proceed to
step 7.
6 When System Setup prompts you to verify the password,
type it again and press
Enter.