Enable password in BIOS

Network administration - Your computer may ask you for a username and password to allow access to Windows, which is an effective security feature that is commonly used, but this feature will not work. If someone gets physical access to your hard drive. (may install your hard disk in another computer and boot from another drive). In this case, activating the hard drive encryption is the best way to prevent theft. However, you can also use tips in the BIOS to enable extra levels of security, ask for other passwords at startup, access the drive, change BIOS settings. In this article we will show you how to adjust those system settings.

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Enter the BIOS configuration when the computer starts to boot. Press the prompted key to enter the BIOS (depending on the type of motherboard); Usually F-Key, Delete or ESC. Move by the arrow key, select with Enter key, back out with ESC key. The interfaces of the BIOS are very different, but go to the section with the security settings. This is how the options on the PhoenixBIOS system normally work.

Supervisor Password - Supervisor Password: Activate and change this password to prevent someone from changing your BIOS settings in the future. For example, if you don't want someone to boot from a CD or an external drive on one of your working systems, first disable the options in the Boot menu, then activate the password here. . If you need to fix the problem in the future, you can restore those boot options after entering the BIOS password.

User Password - User Password : Add an extended password prompt before entering the Windows login screen. This feature provides an extra layer of extra security for unauthenticated access. First, set the user password, then activate it in startup mode.

Hard drive password - HDD Password : The best hard disk protection is to encrypt the drive, activate the hard disk password. If this option is supported in your system, password settings are stored on the hard disk itself, which prevents access even though the hard drive is installed to another computer. Data recovery services can still access your files because they are not encrypted. So you need to remember that it is still possible - although quite difficult - for those who want to access data.

Remember the password - Remember your passwords . Save them to another computer or somewhere that is considered safe; If you forget the password hiding places, the reset process can be very difficult or in some cases impossible. Using the BIOS settings you will want to disable these passwords in the future. Then select the item to make the change, enter the old password and then leave the line to enter a new password.