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• Scraping the surface of the reader with your fingernail or anything hard. • Using or touching the reader with a dirty finger. If you notice any of the following conditions, gently clean the surface of the reader with a dry, soft, lint-free cloth: • The surface of the reader is dirty or stained. • The surface of the reader is wet. • The reader often fails to enroll or authenticate your fingerprint. If your finger has any of the following conditions, you might not be able to register or authenticate it: • Your finger is wrinkled. • Your finger is rough, dry, or injured. • Your finger is very dry. • Your finger is stained with dirt, mud, or oil. • The surface of your finger is very different from when you enrolled your fingerprint. • Your finger is wet. • A finger that has not been enrolled is used. To improve the situation, try the following: • Clean or wipe your hands to remove any excess dirt or moisture from the fingers. • Enroll and use a different finger for authentication. • If your hands are too dry, apply lotion to them. Notice on deleting data from your hard disk drive or solid state drive As computers spread into every corner of life, they process more and more information. The data on your computer, some of which is sensitive, is stored on a hard disk drive or solid state drive. Before you dispose of, sell, or hand over your computer, be sure to delete data stored on it. Handing your computer over to someone else without deleting the loaded software, such as operating systems and application software, might even violate license agreements. You are advised to check the terms and conditions of those license agreements. There are methods that seem to delete the data: • Move the data to the recycle bin, and then click Empty recycle bin. • Use the Delete option. • Format your hard disk drive or solid state drive, using the software for initializing it. • Using the recovery program, provided by Lenovo, bring the hard disk drive or solid state drive back to the factory default settings. These operations, however, only change the file allocation of the data; they do not delete the data itself. In other words, the data retrieval processing is disabled under an operating system such as Windows. The data is still there, even though it seems to be lost. Thus, it is sometimes possible to read the data by use of special software for data recovery. There is a risk that people of bad faith might read and misuse the critical data on hard disk drives or solid state drives for unexpected purposes. To prevent leakage of data, it becomes very important that you take responsibility for deleting all the data from the hard disk drive or solid state drive when you dispose of, sell, or hand over your computer. You 54 User Guide

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Scraping the surface of the reader with your fingernail or anything hard.
•
Using or touching the reader with a dirty finger.
If you notice any of the following conditions, gently clean the surface of the reader with a dry, soft, lint-free
cloth:
•
The surface of the reader is dirty or stained.
•
The surface of the reader is wet.
•
The reader often fails to enroll or authenticate your fingerprint.
If your finger has any of the following conditions, you might not be able to register or authenticate it:
•
Your finger is wrinkled.
•
Your finger is rough, dry, or injured.
•
Your finger is very dry.
•
Your finger is stained with dirt, mud, or oil.
•
The surface of your finger is very different from when you enrolled your fingerprint.
•
Your finger is wet.
•
A finger that has not been enrolled is used.
To improve the situation, try the following:
•
Clean or wipe your hands to remove any excess dirt or moisture from the fingers.
•
Enroll and use a different finger for authentication.
•
If your hands are too dry, apply lotion to them.
Notice on deleting data from your hard disk drive or solid state drive
As computers spread into every corner of life, they process more and more information. The data on your
computer, some of which is sensitive, is stored on a hard disk drive or solid state drive. Before you dispose
of, sell, or hand over your computer, be sure to delete data stored on it.
Handing your computer over to someone else without deleting the loaded software, such as operating
systems and application software, might even violate license agreements. You are advised to check the
terms and conditions of those license agreements.
There are methods that seem to delete the data:
•
Move the data to the recycle bin, and then click
Empty recycle bin
.
•
Use the
Delete
option.
•
Format your hard disk drive or solid state drive, using the software for initializing it.
•
Using the recovery program, provided by Lenovo, bring the hard disk drive or solid state drive back to
the factory default settings.
These operations, however, only change the file allocation of the data; they do not delete the data itself. In
other words, the data retrieval processing is disabled under an operating system such as Windows. The
data is still there, even though it seems to be lost. Thus, it is sometimes possible to read the data by use of
special software for data recovery. There is a risk that people of bad faith might read and misuse the critical
data on hard disk drives or solid state drives for unexpected purposes.
To prevent leakage of data, it becomes very important that you take responsibility for deleting all the data
from the hard disk drive or solid state drive when you dispose of, sell, or hand over your computer. You
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