Hard disk encryption, Turning on – TAG MIL-BOOK 200 User Manual

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Hard Disk Encryption

Your system includes hard disk encryption (including boot sector,
operating system, temp and swap files) that ensures privacy and
confidentiality of data and credentials stored on your hard drive. In
contrast to software disk encryption, no clear text including pass phrases
is ever stored on the hard drive or held in machine memory. The system’s
unique design also completely eliminates any dependency on operating
system or device drivers while functioning automatically and
transparently, thereby ensuring ease-of-use.

Attempts to circumvent security by booting from a floppy disk or by
removing the hard drive to be read on a different machine would prove
futile since the entire content of the hard drive is encrypted.

You must enable hard disk encryption first before formatting your hard
drive.

Turning On

1. Enter the SCU (Setup Configuration Utility) program upon booting

your computer by pressing

F2

quickly when the prompt appears in the

lower left corner of the screen. The SCU menu appears as shown
next.

2. Go to Security menu by using the keyboard’s arrow keys.

3. Go to the item Hard Disk Encryption and press

Enter

to enable it. A

check mark ( ) indicates enabled; an underline (_) indicates
disabled.

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