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Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 1
... Digital 20511 Lake Forest Drive Lake Forest, California U.S.A. 92630
4079-705028-800 Jun 2009
My Book®
Essential™ Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to change without notice.
© 2009 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Technical Support Services
support.wdc.com www.westerndigital.com
If you encounter problems with this product, please contact WD Technical Support...
Product Specifications (pdf) - Page 1
... and drive lock security protection. WORL RIVES
LLING EXTE
My Book® Essential™
External Hard Drives
Smart backup and storage
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WD
RNAL HARD D
Automatic, continuous backup Visual backup control center Password protection and hardware-based encryption
Our best-selling My Book external drive is an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for all the chapters of your digital...
Product Specifications (pdf) - Page 2
... 640 GB WDBAAF6400EBK 500 GB WDBAAF5000EBK
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, My Book and Put Your Life On It are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. We encourage you add or change without notice. Product Specifications
Interface USB 2.0
Kit Contents External hard drive WD SmartWare software USB cable AC adapter Quick Install Guide
Dimensions Height: 1.9 in (48 mm) Depth...
User Manual - Page 4
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5 Locking and Unlocking the Drive 27
Password Protecting the Drive 27 Unlocking the Drive 28
Unlocking the Drive with the WD SmartWare Software 29 Unlocking the Drive Without the WD SmartWare Software 29 Changing Your Password 30 Turning Off the Drive Lock Feature 31
6 Managing and Customizing Your Drive 32
Using the WD SmartWare Icon 32 Opening the WD ...
User Manual - Page 5
...MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUALL
Unlocking the Drive 53 Unlocking the Drive with the WD SmartWare Software 53 Unlocking the Drive Without the WD SmartWare Software 55
Uninstalling WD SmartWare Software 56
9 Troubleshooting 57
Installing, Partitioning, and Formatting the Drive 57 Frequently Asked Questions 57
A Installing the SES Driver 59
Installing on Windows XP Computers 59 Installing the...
User Manual - Page 6
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MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to your My Book® Essential external hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for all your data, deleted a file, or just overwritten an important file.
• Take control-Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from unauthorized access or theft with password...
User Manual - Page 7
... Contents
As shown in your My Book Essential disk drive kit includes the following: • My Book Essential external hard drive • WD SmartWare software (included on the drive) • USB cable • AC adapter • Quick Install Guide
USB Cable
Quick Install Guide
AC Adapter
My Book Essential Drive
Figure 1. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Planet friendly-We designed a small box...
User Manual - Page 18
... drop-down selection box under the name of files in the category. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
WD SmartWare Home Screen
The WD SmartWare Home screen provides four tab-selected options:
• Home-Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in or connected to any location on your computer
In the Content Gauge for...
User Manual - Page 20
... performance features and get started without installing the WD SmartWare software:
1.
Click Do Not Install on page 8. Click: • Continue without Install if you still do want to install the WD SmartWare software. • Go Back if you have changed your My Book as an external hard drive. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Getting Started Without the WD SmartWare Software
If you do not...
User Manual - Page 23
... as the backup completes.
• You can continue to set up your drive or perform any files could not be backed up, the WD SmartWare software displays a: • Caution message indicating the number... hard drive changes to back up all of your computer files:
1. Click Start Backup to yellow/amber for backup. Backing It All Up
To back up all of your files. 3. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
...
User Manual - Page 24
.... Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to suit your My Book drive. Click the WDStore link in the WD Online box to open the
backup files content box:
BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 19 MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Important: Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your drive is full
means that there is idle Selecting Specific Files to...
User Manual - Page 26
Specify the number of file versions that you . MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Figure 12. Software Settings Screen
Specifying the Number of backup versions. Keeping more disk space To specify the number of backup versions to display the Set
File History dialog:
2. The WD SmartWare software can choose to keep up to 25 older versions of each...
User Manual - Page 39
... want to use the browse function to identify the new retrieve folder. 4. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Customizing Your Software Settings
The WD SmartWare software makes it easy for you to quickly customize its own software settings for the best possible performance with your drive by:
• Specifying the number of backup versions that checks for the...
User Manual - Page 40
...) or the drive
management Drive Settings screen (Figure 17 on the drive, including your password if you have one.
• Preferences-Check for software updates or enable the Backup and Retrieve functions if you selected Install Drive Settings at the What would you reconnect your My Book drive to enable or disable the Preferences option. Customizing Your Drive Settings
The WD SmartWare software...
User Manual - Page 65
When the installation completes, click Finish:
INSTALLING THE SES DRIVER - 60 Select Install the software automatically and click Next:
MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
5. 4.
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