How do I turn on my Trusted Drive

To Initialize a new Trusted Drive:

  1. Log on to the computer and ensure that you have administrative privileges for the PC.
  2. Click I Accept when the End User License Agreement appears.
  3. If the EMBASSY Security Setup Wizard does not appear automatically, go to Start > All Programs > Security by Wave Systems > Security Setup Wizard.
  4. Press Next twice to get to the Configure Trusted Drive screen. Ensure that the box next to Initialize Trusted Drive is checked and press Next.
  5. The Trusted Drive Initialization Wizard will appear. To establish yourself as the drive administrator, enter your username that you used to log into the computer (if not already filled in) and create a password. This will be the preboot password that you will need when powering up the Trusted Drive. This does not have to be the same password as your Windows logon password, but it does need to meet the same password complexity requirements. Press Next.
  6. Select a location off of the local hard drive to store the administrator’s username and password for recovery purposes.
  7. The drive administrator that you created above will be a Trusted Drive user. Next, you can add other valid Windows users as Trusted Drive users if other people will be using the PC.
  8. Click Finish and Done to exit the Trusted Drive Initialization Wizard.
  9. View the status and click Finish to exit the EMBASSY Security Setup Wizard.
  10. The wizard has now initialized the Trusted Drive’s pre-boot authentication and set up the administrator and users of the drive. Shut down the system and then power-up to the system to start using the Trusted Drive. You should see the preboot authentication screen. Enter your credentials that you set up in step 5 above to log in to the drive.

For more detailed instructions please see the following documents:

Wave TDM Getting Started Guide

Article ID: TDM-002
Last Reviewed: October 8, 2009

 

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