caution:If the DriveLock user and DriveLock master passwords are forgotten, the hard drive is permanently unusable.
DriveLock prevents unauthorized access to the contents of a
hard drive. After DriveLock protection is applied to a drive, a
password must be entered to access the drive. The drive must
be inserted into the notebook, not an optional Port Replicator or
external MultiBay, in order for it to be accessed by the DriveLock
passwords.
DriveLock involves a user password and a master password:
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A hard drive protected by DriveLock can be accessed with either the user or the master password.
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A user password or master password can be deleted only by removing DriveLock protection from the drive. DriveLock protection can be removed from the drive only with the master password.
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The owner of the user password should be the day-to-day user of the protected hard drive. The owner of the master password may be a system administrator or the day-to-day user.
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A user password and a master password can be the same word.
note:When the notebook is started from a hard drive protected with DriveLock, and the power-on and DriveLock passwords are identical, the notebook will only prompt for entry of a power-on password instead of both a power-on and a DriveLock password.