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•Yourngeriswrinkled.
•Yourngerisrough,dry,orinjured.
•Yourngerisverydry.
•Yourngerisstainedwithdirt,mud,oroil.
•Thesurfaceofyourngerisverydifferentfromwhenyouenrolledyourngerprint.
•Yourngeriswet.
•Angerisusedthathasnotbeenenrolled.
Toimprovethesituation,trythefollowing:
•Cleanorwipeyourhandstoremoveanyexcessdirtormoisturefromthengers.
•Enrollanduseadifferentngerforauthentication.
•Ifyourhandsaretoodry,applylotiontothem.
Noticeondeletingdatafromyoursolidstatedrive
Ascomputersspreadintoeverycorneroflife,theyprocessmoreandmoreinformation.Thedataonyour
computer,someofwhichissensitive,isstoredonthesolidstatedrive.Beforeyoudisposeof,sell,orhand
overyourcomputer,besuretodeletedatastoredonit.
Handingyourcomputerovertosomeoneelsewithoutdeletingtheloadedsoftware,suchasoperating
systemsandapplicationsoftware,mightevenviolatelicenseagreements.Youareadvisedtocheckthe
termsandconditionsofthoselicenseagreements.
Therearemethodsthatseemtodeletethedata:
•Movethedatatotherecyclebin,andthenemptytherecyclebin.
•UsetheDeleteoption.
•Formatyoursolidstatedrive,usingthesoftwareforinitializingit.
•Setthesolidstatedrivebacktothefactorydefaultsettingsusingtherecoveryprogramprovided
byLenovo.
Theseoperations,however,onlychangetheleallocationofthedata;theydonotdeletethedataitself.In
otherwords,thedataretrievalprocessingisdisabledunderanoperatingsystemsuchasWindows.Thedata
isstillthere,eventhoughitseemstobelost.Thus,itissometimespossibletoreadthedatabyuseofspecial
softwarefordatarecovery.Thereisariskthatthisdatacanberetrievedandusedforunexpectedpurposes.
Topreventleakageofdata,itbecomesveryimportantthatyoutakeresponsibilityfordeletingallthedata
fromthesolidstatedrivewhenyoudisposeof,sell,orhandoveryourcomputer.Youcandestroythedata
physicallybysmashingthesolidstatedrivewithahammer,ormagneticallybymeansofstrongmagnetic
power,thusmakingthedataunreadable.Butwerecommendthatyoumakeuseofthesoftware(payware)or
service(payservice)specicallydevelopedforthepurpose.
Fordisposingofdataonthesolidstatedrive,LenovoprovidestheSecureDataDisposaltool.Todownload
thetool,goto:http://www.lenovo.com/support.
Note:Runningeitherapplicationwilltakeacoupleofhours.
Ifasolidstatedriveequippedwithencryptionfeaturesissupportedandinstalledinyourcomputer,you
canlogicallydisposeofallthedataonthedriveinaveryshorttimebyerasingthecryptographickey.The
dataencryptedwiththeoldkeyisnotphysicallyerasedbutremainsonthedrive;however,itcannotbe
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