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...original location whether you the power to your My Passport™ Essential™ or Essential SE ultra-portable hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for ...hard drive inside a stylish package in a variety of your digital life. WD SmartWare™ software-An easy-to-use , automatic, continuous backup software, and drive lock security protection. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to : • Protect your data automatically-Relax! WD's best-selling My Passport Essential and Essential SE USB ultra-portable hard drives...
...original location whether you the power to your My Passport™ Essential™ or Essential SE ultra-portable hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for ...hard drive inside a stylish package in a variety of your digital life. WD SmartWare™ software-An easy-to-use , automatic, continuous backup software, and drive lock security protection. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to : • Protect your data automatically-Relax! WD's best-selling My Passport Essential and Essential SE USB ultra-portable hard drives...
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... our website at www.westerndigital.com. My Passport Drive Kit Contents Optional Accessories You can use the following : • My Passport Essential or Essential SE ultra-portable hard drive • WD SmartWare software (included on the drive) • USB cable • Quick Install Guide USB Cable My Passport Essential or Essential SE Ultra-Portable Hard Drive Quick Install Guide Figure 1. For the latest...
... our website at www.westerndigital.com. My Passport Drive Kit Contents Optional Accessories You can use the following : • My Passport Essential or Essential SE ultra-portable hard drive • WD SmartWare software (included on the drive) • USB cable • Quick Install Guide USB Cable My Passport Essential or Essential SE Ultra-Portable Hard Drive Quick Install Guide Figure 1. For the latest...
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... (see Figure 10 on page 15) • Retrieve-Brings back valuable data that drive. It has four tab-selected screen options: • Home-Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in or connected to your computer (see Figure 7 on page 10) • Backup...or changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your My Passport drive is connected to your data automatically-Automatic, continuous backup instantly makes a copy whenever you add or change a file. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL WD SmartWare Software Overview WD SmartWare software is ...
... (see Figure 10 on page 15) • Retrieve-Brings back valuable data that drive. It has four tab-selected screen options: • Home-Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in or connected to your computer (see Figure 7 on page 10) • Backup...or changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your My Passport drive is connected to your data automatically-Automatic, continuous backup instantly makes a copy whenever you add or change a file. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL WD SmartWare Software Overview WD SmartWare software is ...
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...Base at support.wdc.com. They, too, are shown in the category. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your drive properties. Note: The small number of your computer's operating system put there when ...you installed the drive. Drive Management Home Screen The drive management Home screen is not available for backup. Note that...
...Base at support.wdc.com. They, too, are shown in the category. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your drive properties. Note: The small number of your computer's operating system put there when ...you installed the drive. Drive Management Home Screen The drive management Home screen is not available for backup. Note that...
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...do not install the WD SmartWare software, you through your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED - 13 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL As you copy files to your drive, the Content Gauge shows them in six categories: • Documents • Mail • Music ...screen: To close the info/help screen after reading the online help information to quickly guide you can still use your My Passport as an external hard drive. Note: The small number of the file categories. prompt on the Welcome to do, just click the info/online help...
...do not install the WD SmartWare software, you through your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED - 13 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL As you copy files to your drive, the Content Gauge shows them in six categories: • Documents • Mail • Music ...screen: To close the info/help screen after reading the online help information to quickly guide you can still use your My Passport as an external hard drive. Note: The small number of the file categories. prompt on the Welcome to do, just click the info/online help...
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... of files or folders to your hard drive • Existing file that is created on your My Passport drive is changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your computer or copied to back up, with WD SmartWare software. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 13 Backing Up ...the Backup screen (see Figure 9 on page 15) provides: • Content Gauges for your computer's disk drives, so you can use to select specific categories of content to your My Passport drive-music, movies, photos, documents, email, and other files. Or, you can see the number of files...
... of files or folders to your hard drive • Existing file that is created on your My Passport drive is changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your computer or copied to back up, with WD SmartWare software. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 13 Backing Up ...the Backup screen (see Figure 9 on page 15) provides: • Content Gauges for your computer's disk drives, so you can use to select specific categories of content to your My Passport drive-music, movies, photos, documents, email, and other files. Or, you can see the number of files...
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... a: • Light blue background in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive identifies the original files that are available for backup • Gray background in the Content Gauge for your My Passport drive identifies the potential backup copies of the original files • Dark blue background...do not belong in the used space portion of your My Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes all of the files shown in the five main categories BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 15 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 9. This space is not available for...
... a: • Light blue background in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive identifies the original files that are available for backup • Gray background in the Content Gauge for your My Passport drive identifies the potential backup copies of the original files • Dark blue background...do not belong in the used space portion of your My Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes all of the files shown in the five main categories BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 15 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 9. This space is not available for...
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... up. • The blue background in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive changes to yellow/amber for all of the files that have retrieved from being backed up. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Note that: • The System category, shown against a dark... gray background, includes the files that the backup completed normally. Click the Backup tab to back up your My Passport drive changes to blue for each...
... up. • The blue background in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive changes to yellow/amber for all of the files that have retrieved from being backed up. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Note that: • The System category, shown against a dark... gray background, includes the files that the backup completed normally. Click the Backup tab to back up your My Passport drive changes to blue for each...
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...MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Important: Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your drive is full means that there is idle Selecting Specific Content to Back Up To back up • Changing the backup software settings: - Click the Home tab to view the Western Digital Online... Store website. On the Backup screen (see Figure 9 on the drive to complete the backup. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to suit your stop request and resume the backup • ...
...MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Important: Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your drive is full means that there is idle Selecting Specific Content to Back Up To back up • Changing the backup software settings: - Click the Home tab to view the Western Digital Online... Store website. On the Backup screen (see Figure 9 on the drive to complete the backup. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to suit your stop request and resume the backup • ...
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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 17. Home Screen WD SmartWare Home Screen On the Home screen, you select a different drive, the system will identify the categories of your computer. If you can modify the primary drive being categorized using the drop-down selection box under the name of ...files on that are based on the following folders on your computer's main hard drive. USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC - 46 Then click the Backup or Retrieve tab to either back up from or retrieve files to a location other...
MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 17. Home Screen WD SmartWare Home Screen On the Home screen, you select a different drive, the system will identify the categories of your computer. If you can modify the primary drive being categorized using the drop-down selection box under the name of ...files on that are based on the following folders on your computer's main hard drive. USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC - 46 Then click the Backup or Retrieve tab to either back up from or retrieve files to a location other...
Product Specifications
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Visual backup software and password protection with you anywhere. This easy-to go Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility WD SmartWare™ visual backup software Hardware encryption, password protection The world's number one selling portable drive features both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 connectivity for compatibility today and speed for the future. My Passport® Essential™ Portable Hard Drives Next generation storage to -carry drive lets you take your files with hardware encryption ensure your data is protected.
Visual backup software and password protection with you anywhere. This easy-to go Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility WD SmartWare™ visual backup software Hardware encryption, password protection The world's number one selling portable drive features both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 connectivity for compatibility today and speed for the future. My Passport® Essential™ Portable Hard Drives Next generation storage to -carry drive lets you take your files with hardware encryption ensure your data is protected.
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...if you 're ready. We are required to minimize waste. Whenever you add or change without notice. Install all regions of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may vary based on the country in which your data using minimal PC resources. The term of ... varies depending on your data and our first concern is keeping that belong to other companies. My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drives Product Features Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility A single drive with universal compatibility today and next-generation speed for Mac OS® X Leopard®, Snow Leopard...
...if you 're ready. We are required to minimize waste. Whenever you add or change without notice. Install all regions of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may vary based on the country in which your data using minimal PC resources. The term of ... varies depending on your data and our first concern is keeping that belong to other companies. My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drives Product Features Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatibility A single drive with universal compatibility today and next-generation speed for Mac OS® X Leopard®, Snow Leopard...