6-14 User’s Manual
Power and Power-Up Modes
■ 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.
User Token field
■ Create (button)
You can use an SD card token, instead of entering the password. After 
you have registered a password, insert an SD card in SD card slot and 
click Create. You can use an SD card of any capacity, but it must be 
formatted correctly.
If an unformatted card or one with an incompatible format is inserted, 
you will be prompted to format it with a tool named TOSHIBA SD 
Memory Card Format. To start the format tool, point to or click the 
following items:
start -> All Programs -> TOSHIBA -> Utilities -> SD Memory 
Card Format
■ Disable (button)
Click this button to invalidate the token. You cannot re-validate old 
tokens, but you can use the same SD cards to create new tokens.
When entering a password, do not enter any characters (for example “!” or 
“#”) produced by pressing the Shift or Alt keys and so on.
■ 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, 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. 
When you format an SD Memory card, all data will be deleted. Be sure to 
save data on the card to other media before you format the card.