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Fujitsu LIFEBOOK A530 - Activating Hard Disk Protection; Deactivating Hard Disk Protection

Fujitsu LIFEBOOK A530
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Security functions
Activating hard disk protection
Call up the BIOS Setup and select the Security menu.
If you have not assigned BIOS passwords yet, dene the supervisor and the user
password now, if desired (see "
Secu rity functions " , Page 43).
Mark the Hard Disk Security eld and press the Enter key.
In the Drive 0 are a ma rk the Set Master Password eld and press the Enter key.
Enter new Password then appears and you are asked to enter a password.
Enter the password and press the Enter key.
Conrm ne w Password requires you to conrm the password.
Enter the password again and press the Enter key.
Setup Notice: Changes have been saved is displayed to conrm that the
new password has been saved.
To assign the password for the second hard disk (Drive1 ), go to the Drive1 area and
select the eld Set Master Password, then proceed in exactly the same way as for
setting up the password for the rst hard disk (Drive0 ).
The eld Password Entry on Boot is set to Enab led by default. You c an exit the BIOS
Setup once you have nished changing the settings.
From the Exit menu, choose the option Exit Saving Changes.
Press the Enter key and select Yes.
The notebook reboots and your hard disk is now protected with a password. The system
will ask y ou to enter the password when the notebook is restarted again.
Deactivating hard disk protection
To cancel a password without setting a new one, proceed as follows:
Call up the BIOS Setup and select the Security menu.
Mark the Hard Disk Security eld and press the Enter key.
In the Drive 0 are a ma rk the Set Master Password eld and press the Enter key.
You will be initially requested to enter the old password by the Enter current Password prompt.
You will then be requested to enter a new password by the Enter new Password prompt.
After entering the password, press the Enter key three times.
From the Exit menu, choose the option Exit Saving Changes.
Press the Enter key and select Yes.
The notebook reboots, and password protection for the hard disk is cancelled.
To cancel the password fo r the second ha rd disk (Drive1), go to the Drive1 area
and select the eld Set M aster Password, then proceed in exactly the same way as
for c ancelling the password for the rst hard disk (Drive0).
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