you can lose data from the hard disk for a variety of reasons. security violations, viruses, or hard disk drive failures can all cause data loss. to help protect against the loss of valuable data, ibm has incorporated the following data-saving features in your computer:

    1 smart hard disk drive

    your computer comes with a self-monitoring and reporting technology (smart) hard disk drive that is enabled to report potential hard disk failures. if an error is detected, a desktop management interface (dmi) compliant warning message is displayed on the monitor screen and, if the computer is part of a network, on the administrator console. when an error is detected, the data on the hard disk can be backed up and the drive replaced.

    2 virus protection

    your computer has built-in virus protection that you can enable through the ibm configuration/setup utility program. this built-in protection checks for viruses in the boot record only. also, norton antivirus for ibm is available on the hard disk.