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    How to secure my X200s?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by tarmolenovo, Nov 11, 2009.

  1. tarmolenovo

    tarmolenovo Newbie

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    hi,
    I am using X200s with SSD, Vista. With the previous HDD I did use Full Drive Encryption (FDE) and I was very happy with it.

    Now, as BIOS/FDE password in not available with Intel X-25M, I am looking for your recommendations. Does Security Solutions (and TPM) provide Full Drive Encryption w/o having too much negative impact on performance/life-time of SSD?

    Anyway, I could not find the option nowhere in the menu...

    thank you in advance,
    Tarmo
     
    tarmolenovo, Nov 11, 2009
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  2. ckx

    ckx Notebook Evangelist

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    You said that BIOS FDE password is not available. Is regular (non-FDE) BIOS HDD password available?
     
    ckx, Nov 11, 2009
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  3. tarmolenovo

    tarmolenovo Newbie

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    No; I can not set any HDD password in BIOS... ;-(

    But I can set supervisor and other passwords, though.
     
    tarmolenovo, Nov 11, 2009
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    jaredy Notebook Virtuoso

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    Drive encryption will hurt performance of any drive.
     
    jaredy, Nov 11, 2009
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    ym1 Notebook Consultant

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    personally I would find someone or company that you know that runs a terminal server. Have them create you a profile and do all your work off of that. That way there's actually no data on your laptop and even if someone walks off with your laptop you can simply log in from any other pc and be back to work instantly.

    ym
     
    ym1, Nov 11, 2009
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