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WORL RIVES LLING EXTE My Book® Essential™ External Hard Drives Smart backup and storage D'S BEST SE 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 life. Our latest edition now features visual, easy-to-use, automatic, continuous backup software and drive lock security protection.
WORL RIVES LLING EXTE My Book® Essential™ External Hard Drives Smart backup and storage D'S BEST SE 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 life. Our latest edition now features visual, easy-to-use, automatic, continuous backup software and drive lock security protection.
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... Drive lock Gain peace of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. We encourage you 've lost files effortlessly Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you to recycle it happens Seeing is protected from the WD SmartWare control center. My Book Essential External Hard Drives Product...and models 2 TB WDBAAF0020EBK 1.5 TB WDBAAF0015EBK 1 TB WDBAAF0010EBK 750 GB WDBAAF7500EBK 640 GB WDBAAF6400EBK 500 GB WDBAAF5000EBK Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, My Book and Put Your Life On It are trademarks of mind knowing that belong to change a file. Bring back lost...
... Drive lock Gain peace of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. We encourage you 've lost files effortlessly Retrieve your valuable data to its original location whether you to recycle it happens Seeing is protected from the WD SmartWare control center. My Book Essential External Hard Drives Product...and models 2 TB WDBAAF0020EBK 1.5 TB WDBAAF0015EBK 1 TB WDBAAF0010EBK 750 GB WDBAAF7500EBK 640 GB WDBAAF6400EBK 500 GB WDBAAF5000EBK Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, My Book and Put Your Life On It are trademarks of mind knowing that belong to change a file. Bring back lost...
User Manual
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... into categories and shows the progress of your backup. • Bring back lost files effortlessly-Retrieve your valuable data 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. •...data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with your computer. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL 11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to its original location whether you've lost all the chapters of your digital life. This chapter includes the following topics: Features Kit Contents Optional...
... into categories and shows the progress of your backup. • Bring back lost files effortlessly-Retrieve your valuable data 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. •...data is protected from unauthorized access or theft with your computer. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL 11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to its original location whether you've lost all the chapters of your digital life. This chapter includes the following topics: Features Kit Contents Optional...
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...the software supports up to http://products.wdc.com/updates. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL Planet friendly-We designed a small box from recycled materials to recycle it. My Book Drive Kit Components Optional Accessories For information about optional accessories for multiple devices... information, go to three WD drives (My Book or My Passport drives with WD SmartWare software). Kit 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 •...
...the software supports up to http://products.wdc.com/updates. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL Planet friendly-We designed a small box from recycled materials to recycle it. My Book Drive Kit Components Optional Accessories For information about optional accessories for multiple devices... information, go to three WD drives (My Book or My Passport drives with WD SmartWare software). Kit 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 •...
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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 your computer (see Figure 8 on page 11) • Backup-Manages existing backups or creates new backups ... with the drop-down selection box under the name of files on your computer In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your operating system files that are shown against a dark gray background, includes all included file extensions, search for backup.
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 your computer (see Figure 8 on page 11) • Backup-Manages existing backups or creates new backups ... with the drop-down selection box under the name of files on your computer In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your operating system files that are shown against a dark gray background, includes all included file extensions, search for backup.
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... 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 install the WD SmartWare software, you can still use your... installing WD SmartWare? Click Do Not Install on the Welcome to WD SmartWare screen to "Getting Started with built-in diagnostic features (see "Checking Drive Health" on page 8. In this case, go to display the Continue without installing the WD SmartWare software: 1.
... 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 install the WD SmartWare software, you can still use your... installing WD SmartWare? Click Do Not Install on the Welcome to WD SmartWare screen to "Getting Started with built-in diagnostic features (see "Checking Drive Health" on page 8. In this case, go to display the Continue without installing the WD SmartWare software: 1.
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...up any: • New file that is created on your computer or copied to your hard drive • Existing file that is changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your My Book drive is automatic-the WD SmartWare software does it for you without any way This protection is ...software rescans your computer for new or changed in any action on your part-just make sure to leave your My Book drive connected to your computer. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL 13 Backing Up Your Computer Files This chapter includes the following topics: About Backing Up Your Computer Files Backing...
...up any: • New file that is created on your computer or copied to your hard drive • Existing file that is changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your My Book drive is automatic-the WD SmartWare software does it for you without any way This protection is ...software rescans your computer for new or changed in any action on your part-just make sure to leave your My Book drive connected to your computer. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL 13 Backing Up Your Computer Files This chapter includes the following topics: About Backing Up Your Computer Files Backing...
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...BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL Figure 10. Backup Screen In the Content Gauges for your computer's disk drives, the categories of files that would be included in the backup if you click Start Backup are shown where a: • Light blue background in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive... represents the original files that are available for backup • Gray background in the Content Gauge for your My Book drive represents the potential backup copies of the original files • Dark blue ...
...BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL Figure 10. Backup Screen In the Content Gauges for your computer's disk drives, the categories of files that would be included in the backup if you click Start Backup are shown where a: • Light blue background in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive... represents the original files that are available for backup • Gray background in the Content Gauge for your My Book drive represents the potential backup copies of the original files • Dark blue ...
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... a message indicating the amount of data that has been backed 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 , the WD SmartWare software displays a: •...3644 in the background. • A Stop Backup button is available for stopping the backup. 4. If any other internal hard drives, click the Home tab and select the drive. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL Note that: • The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes the files that you...
... a message indicating the amount of data that has been backed 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 , the WD SmartWare software displays a: •...3644 in the background. • A Stop Backup button is available for stopping the backup. 4. If any other internal hard drives, click the Home tab and select the drive. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL Note that: • The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes the files that you...
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Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to suit your request, stop the backup, and remove the newly created ... removes all of the backup files that were just copied to your My Book drive. 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 Back Up ...step 3, the Stop backup? On the Backup screen (see Figure 10 on the drive to complete the backup. c. The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to view the Western Digital Online Store website.
Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to suit your request, stop the backup, and remove the newly created ... removes all of the backup files that were just copied to your My Book drive. 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 Back Up ...step 3, the Stop backup? On the Backup screen (see Figure 10 on the drive to complete the backup. c. The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to view the Western Digital Online Store website.
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...folders on that are shown against a blue background in categories that drive. In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your computer's main hard drive. If you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the dropdown selection box under the name of your... files that are available for backup are based on the following folders on your computer. USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC - 49 MY BOOK ESSENTIAL...
...folders on that are shown against a blue background in categories that drive. In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your computer's main hard drive. If you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the dropdown selection box under the name of your... files that are available for backup are based on the following folders on your computer. USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC - 49 MY BOOK ESSENTIAL...