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... smaller, high-quality integrated USB hard drive inside a stylish package in a variety of fun colors. WD GreenPower Technology™ lowers internal drive power consumption by up your data automatically and continuously, shows your digital life. Visual backup organizes and ...lost files effortlessly. ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE - 1 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 for your drive that gives you add or change ...
... smaller, high-quality integrated USB hard drive inside a stylish package in a variety of fun colors. WD GreenPower Technology™ lowers internal drive power consumption by up your data automatically and continuously, shows your digital life. Visual backup organizes and ...lost files effortlessly. ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE - 1 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 for your drive that gives you add or change ...
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... in Figure 1, your region. Kit Contents As shown in your My Passport Essential or Essential SE disk drive kit includes the following accessories with the My Passport drive: • A special USB cable that might be needed for computers ...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. ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE - 2 Ready to minimize waste. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE...
... in Figure 1, your region. Kit Contents As shown in your My Passport Essential or Essential SE disk drive kit includes the following accessories with the My Passport drive: • A special USB cable that might be needed for computers ...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. ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE - 2 Ready to minimize waste. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE...
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... the name of your computer. 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-Manages existing backups or creates new backups of files ... or just overwritten an important file. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL WD SmartWare Software Overview WD SmartWare software is connected to your computer. Then click the: • Backup tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Passport drive • Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up...
... the name of your computer. 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-Manages existing backups or creates new backups of files ... or just overwritten an important file. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL WD SmartWare Software Overview WD SmartWare software is connected to your computer. Then click the: • Backup tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Passport drive • Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up...
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...Retrieved category, also shown against a dark gray background, shows the files that you installed the drive. 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 six... category, shown against a dark gray background, includes all of your My Passport drive (see Figure 8 on page 10) • Settings-Manages the same security, diagnostics, and power settings as the WD SmartWare Drive Settings screen (see Figure 16 on page 25) and provides a Preferences ...
...Retrieved category, also shown against a dark gray background, shows the files that you installed the drive. 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 six... category, shown against a dark gray background, includes all of your My Passport drive (see Figure 8 on page 10) • Settings-Manages the same security, diagnostics, and power settings as the WD SmartWare Drive Settings screen (see Figure 16 on page 25) and provides a Preferences ...
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... the online help information to quickly guide you through your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. 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...drive with a password (see "Checking Drive Health" on page 39) To forego these performance features and get started without installing the WD SmartWare software, click Do Not Install at the What would you like to do not install the WD SmartWare software, you can still use your My Passport as an external hard drive...
... the online help information to quickly guide you through your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. 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...drive with a password (see "Checking Drive Health" on page 39) To forego these performance features and get started without installing the WD SmartWare software, click Do Not Install at the What would you like to do not install the WD SmartWare software, you can still use your My Passport as an external hard drive...
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...disconnect and reconnect the drive to your My Passport drive-music, movies, photos, documents, email, and other files. Then, whenever you without any way This protection is automatic-the WD SmartWare software does it for as long as before. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 13 Backing... 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 Passport drive is connected to three backup drives that you can use to select specific categories of files or ...
...disconnect and reconnect the drive to your My Passport drive-music, movies, photos, documents, email, and other files. Then, whenever you without any way This protection is automatic-the WD SmartWare software does it for as long as before. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 13 Backing... 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 Passport drive is connected to three backup drives that you can use to select specific categories of files or ...
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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 9. Backup Screen In the Content Gauges for your computer's disk drives, the categories of files that have been backed up In the Content Gauge for backups. This space is not available for your My Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes...shown where a: • Light blue background in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive identifies the original files that do not belong in the Content Gauge for your drive properties. In the Content Gauges and the Detailed View content box: This file category Documents...
MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 9. Backup Screen In the Content Gauges for your computer's disk drives, the categories of files that have been backed up In the Content Gauge for backups. This space is not available for your My Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes...shown where a: • Light blue background in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive identifies the original files that do not belong in the Content Gauge for your drive properties. In the Content Gauges and the Detailed View content box: This file category Documents...
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... the backup completed normally. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Note that: • The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes the files that you cannot determine why some of your files were not backed up your files in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive and the WD SmartWare software displays...
... the backup completed normally. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Note that: • The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes the files that you cannot determine why some of your files were not backed up your files in the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive and the WD SmartWare software displays...
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...Passport drive. Choosing the number of the backup files that there is not enough free space on page 15), select Detailed View to longterm archive storage and: a. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Important: Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your computer files: 1. Click the Home tab to view the Western Digital... The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to open the backup files content box: BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 17 Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to keep - b. If you stop request and remove ...
...Passport drive. Choosing the number of the backup files that there is not enough free space on page 15), select Detailed View to longterm archive storage and: a. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Important: Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your computer files: 1. Click the Home tab to view the Western Digital... The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to open the backup files content box: BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 17 Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to keep - b. If you stop request and remove ...
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... background in all of your computer's main hard drive. USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC - 46 In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all other than your computer. If you can modify the primary drive being categorized using the drop-down selection box under the name of your computer. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 17.
... background in all of your computer's main hard drive. USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC - 46 In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all other than your computer. If you can modify the primary drive being categorized using the drop-down selection box under the name of your computer. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Figure 17.
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My Passport® Essential™ SE Portable Hard Drives Next generation high-capacity storage 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 USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 connectivity for compatibility today and speed for the future. Maximum capacity in a portable drive lets you carry your data is protected. Visual backup software and password protection with hardware encryption ensure your digital life with you.
My Passport® Essential™ SE Portable Hard Drives Next generation high-capacity storage 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 USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 connectivity for compatibility today and speed for the future. Maximum capacity in a portable drive lets you carry your data is protected. Visual backup software and password protection with hardware encryption ensure your digital life with you.
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...Silver WDBACXxxxxBSL 750 GB Black Silver WDBACXxxxxABK WDBACXxxxxASL Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, My Passport, and Put Your Life On It are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport Essential and WD SmartWare are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Not all . Please ...and out For over 20 years, millions of your data using minimal PC resources. My Passport Essential SE 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....
...Silver WDBACXxxxxBSL 750 GB Black Silver WDBACXxxxxABK WDBACXxxxxASL Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, My Passport, and Put Your Life On It are trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Passport Essential and WD SmartWare are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Not all . Please ...and out For over 20 years, millions of your data using minimal PC resources. My Passport Essential SE 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....