Toshiba portege m400 User Manual

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User’s Manual
Power and Power-Up Modes
Delete (button)
Click this button to delete a registered password. Before you can delete 
a password, you must first enter the current password correctly or insert 
a proper token. Please use BIOS Setup to change or delete the HDD 
Passwords or to set the HDD Master Password.
Change (button)
Click this button to change a registered password. Before you can 
change a password, you must first enter the current password correctly 
or insert a proper token. Please use BIOS Setup to change or delete 
the HDD Passwords or to set the HDD Master Password.
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.
After you set the password, a dialog box will be displayed asking 
whether you want to save it to a floppy diskette or other media. If you 
forget the password, you can open the password file on another 
computer. Be sure to keep the media in a safe place.
When entering the character string to register the password, enter from 
the keyboard character by character and do not enter as ASCII code or 
copy-and-paste the character string. In addition, ensure that the 
registered password is correct by outputting the character string to the 
password file.
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 can’t accept this 
risk, don’t register the HDD User Password.
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 
 in Chapter 3. 
Refer to 
 section in Chapter 7 
for more information.