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... designed a smaller, high-quality integrated USB hard drive inside a stylish package in a variety of your data is believing. Power miser-My Passport portable drives are designed to save energy. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to your My Passport™ Essential™ or Essential SE ultra-portable hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity storage solution...
... designed a smaller, high-quality integrated USB hard drive inside a stylish package in a variety of your data is believing. Power miser-My Passport portable drives are designed to save energy. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to your My Passport™ Essential™ or Essential SE ultra-portable hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity storage solution...
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... 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. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Planet friendly-We designed a small box from...
... 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. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Planet friendly-We designed a small box from...
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...file. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL WD SmartWare Software Overview WD SmartWare software is an easy-to-use tool that gives you the power to: • Secure your drive-In drive settings, create a password to protect your encrypted drive from your My Passport drive to any location... See your backup as your My Passport drive is available after selecting Install WD SmartWare or Retrieve a backup and installing the software. 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...
...file. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL WD SmartWare Software Overview WD SmartWare software is an easy-to-use tool that gives you the power to: • Secure your drive-In drive settings, create a password to protect your encrypted drive from your My Passport drive to any location... See your backup as your My Passport drive is available after selecting Install WD SmartWare or Retrieve a backup and installing the software. 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...
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...button for enabling the Backup and Retrieve functions (see Figure 16 on page 25) CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED - 12 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your files that are available for backup are shown against a blue background in...list of all included file extensions, search for Answer ID 3644 in the category. They, too, are not available for your My Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes all of files in the WD Knowledge Base at support.wdc.com. This space is available after selecting ...
...button for enabling the Backup and Retrieve functions (see Figure 16 on page 25) CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED - 12 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your files that are available for backup are shown against a blue background in...list of all included file extensions, search for Answer ID 3644 in the category. They, too, are not available for your My Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes all of files in the WD Knowledge Base at support.wdc.com. This space is available after selecting ...
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...-right corner of any files to the drive-represents the system and hidden files that are uncertain about what to do not install the WD SmartWare software, you can still use your My Passport as an external hard drive. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL As you copy files... to your drive, the Content Gauge shows them in diagnostic features (see "Managing and Customizing Your...
...-right corner of any files to the drive-represents the system and hidden files that are uncertain about what to do not install the WD SmartWare software, you can still use your My Passport as an external hard drive. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL As you copy files... to your drive, the Content Gauge shows them in diagnostic features (see "Managing and Customizing Your...
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... buttons for as long as your My Passport drive-music, movies, photos, documents, email, and other files. Or, you have, simply clicking the Start Backup button will back all of the WD SmartWare software supports up . MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 13 Backing Up Your ...This protection is connected to your My Passport drive is automatic-the WD SmartWare software does it for new or changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as before. Additionally, the Backup screen (see Figure 9 on your computer to your hard drive • Existing file that is ...
... buttons for as long as your My Passport drive-music, movies, photos, documents, email, and other files. Or, you have, simply clicking the Start Backup button will back all of the WD SmartWare software supports up . MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 13 Backing Up Your ...This protection is connected to your My Passport drive is automatic-the WD SmartWare software does it for new or changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as before. Additionally, the Backup screen (see Figure 9 on your computer to your hard drive • Existing file that is ...
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...Passport drive identifies the potential backup copies of the original files • Dark blue background identifies categories of files that do not belong in the five main categories BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 15 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL ...Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes all of your drive properties. 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...
...Passport drive identifies the potential backup copies of the original files • Dark blue background identifies categories of files that do not belong in the five main categories BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 15 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL ...Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes all of your drive properties. 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...
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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Note that: • The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes the files that you have not yet been backed up. • The gray background in the Content Gauge for your My Passport drive changes to blue for each category...files • Closing all of the files and the reasons they were not backed up Some applications and running applications-including your computer's hard drive and the WD SmartWare software displays a: • Caution message indicating the number of files involved • View link that the backup...
MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Note that: • The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes the files that you have not yet been backed up. • The gray background in the Content Gauge for your My Passport drive changes to blue for each category...files • Closing all of the files and the reasons they were not backed up Some applications and running applications-including your computer's hard drive and the WD SmartWare software displays a: • Caution message indicating the number of files involved • View link that the backup...
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Click the Home tab to suit your future requirements. 5. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to display the Home screen. To continue, click either: • Continue Backup to disregard your stop request and resume the backup •... 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: - The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to view the Western Digital Online...
Click the Home tab to suit your future requirements. 5. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to display the Home screen. To continue, click either: • Continue Backup to disregard your stop request and resume the backup •... 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: - The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to view the Western Digital Online...
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...using the drop-down selection box under the name of the files in categories that drive. In the Content Gauge for backup are based on the following folders on your computer's main hard drive. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 17. Then click the Backup or Retrieve tab to either... • Movies • Pictures • Mail • Documents • Other Each category includes all of your files that are available for your computer's hard drive, all of the files in the represented folder except the Other category, which includes all other than your computer.
...using the drop-down selection box under the name of the files in categories that drive. In the Content Gauge for backup are based on the following folders on your computer's main hard drive. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 17. Then click the Backup or Retrieve tab to either... • Movies • Pictures • Mail • Documents • Other Each category includes all of your files that are available for your computer's hard drive, all of the files in the represented folder except the Other category, which includes all other than your computer.
Product Specifications
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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. Visual backup software and password protection with you take your files with hardware encryption ensure your data is protected. My Passport® Essential™ Portable Hard Drives Next generation storage to -carry drive lets 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. Visual backup software and password protection with you take your files with hardware encryption ensure your data is protected. My Passport® Essential™ Portable Hard Drives Next generation storage to -carry drive lets you anywhere.
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...White available only in all . The term of mind knowing 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 USB 2.0 now and step up to USB 3.0 speed when you're ready. USB-... Transfer a 2-hour HD movie in which your PC. Whenever you to WD hard drives. Planet friendly We designed a small box and used for a list of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport Essential and WD SmartWare are registered trademarks of people worldwide have trusted their data to recycle...
...White available only in all . The term of mind knowing 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 USB 2.0 now and step up to USB 3.0 speed when you're ready. USB-... Transfer a 2-hour HD movie in which your PC. Whenever you to WD hard drives. Planet friendly We designed a small box and used for a list of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport Essential and WD SmartWare are registered trademarks of people worldwide have trusted their data to recycle...