Technical information

Using the Passwords
Changing or Removing the Supervisor Password when Using
Several Hard Disk Drives
To change or remove the supervisor password when using more
than one hard disk drive on your computer, do the following:
To change the supervisor
password:
Page 120.
1 Change or remove your supervisor password on your
computer.
2 Install the hard disk drive with the old supervisor
password set.
3 Turn on the computer. The hard-disk password prompt
appears.
4 Do one of the following:
If you removed the supervisor password, type the old
supervisor password; then press the Spacebar.
If you changed the supervisor password, change the
old password on the hard disk drive to the new supervisor
password by typing:
old (space) new (space) new
To remove the supervisor
password:
Page 121.
To install the hard disk
password:
Page 148.
5 Press Enter.
6 Turn off the computer. Repeat steps 2 through 5 to
change or remove the supervisor password for each
hard disk drive.
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