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... run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more elegant. MY BOOK ELITE USER MANUAL 11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to your My Book™ Elite™ external hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for all your data, deleted a file, or just overwritten an important... design-We've made these award-winning drives even smaller, sleeker, and more from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardwarebased encryption. Visual backup organizes and displays your content into categories and shows the progress of your digital life.
... run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more elegant. MY BOOK ELITE USER MANUAL 11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to your My Book™ Elite™ external hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for all your data, deleted a file, or just overwritten an important... design-We've made these award-winning drives even smaller, sleeker, and more from unauthorized access or theft with password protection and 256-bit hardwarebased encryption. Visual backup organizes and displays your content into categories and shows the progress of your digital life.
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...documentation and information, go to recycle it. ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE - 2 Planet friendly-We designed a small box from recycled materials to save energy. My Book Drive Kit Components My Book Elite Drive Optional Accessories For information about optional accessories for compatibility with your... Cable Quick Install Guide AC Adapter Figure 1. Kit Contents As shown in your My Book Elite external hard drive kit includes the following: • My Book Elite external hard drive • WD SmartWare software (included on and off with all Windows operating systems. Important: For...
...documentation and information, go to recycle it. ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE - 2 Planet friendly-We designed a small box from recycled materials to save energy. My Book Drive Kit Components My Book Elite Drive Optional Accessories For information about optional accessories for compatibility with your... Cable Quick Install Guide AC Adapter Figure 1. Kit Contents As shown in your My Book Elite external hard drive kit includes the following: • My Book Elite external hard drive • WD SmartWare software (included on and off with all Windows operating systems. Important: For...
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... performance (see "Managing and Customizing Your Drive" on page 36) • Check the operational condition of your drive with a password (see "Locking and Unlocking Your Drive" on page 27) • Secure you can still use your My Book as an external hard drive. Whenever you through your backup, retrieve,... and settings tasks. In this case, however, you will not be able to do not install the WD SmartWare software, you drive and all of your operating system files that you...
... performance (see "Managing and Customizing Your Drive" on page 36) • Check the operational condition of your drive with a password (see "Locking and Unlocking Your Drive" on page 27) • Secure you can still use your My Book as an external hard drive. Whenever you through your backup, retrieve,... and settings tasks. In this case, however, you will not be able to do not install the WD SmartWare software, you drive and all of your operating system files that you...
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...files Advanced Backup Capabilities The advanced backup capabilities include: • Selecting specific content to view the Western Digital Online Store website. On the Backup screen (see Figure 10 on the drive to open the backup files content box: BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 23 b. c. ...term solution would be to relegate the drive to suit your computer files: 1. Click the WDStore link in the background, so you can continue using you clicked Stop Backup at step 3, the Stop backup? Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to longterm archive storage and: a....
...files Advanced Backup Capabilities The advanced backup capabilities include: • Selecting specific content to view the Western Digital Online Store website. On the Backup screen (see Figure 10 on the drive to open the backup files content box: BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 23 b. c. ...term solution would be to relegate the drive to suit your computer files: 1. Click the WDStore link in the background, so you can continue using you clicked Stop Backup at step 3, the Stop backup? Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to longterm archive storage and: a....
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My Book® Elite™ External Hard Drives Premium backup and storage Customizable e-label Visual backup control center Password protection and hardware-based encryption With reassuring visual backup, drive encryption, and password protection, the My Book Elite is one safe place for all the chapters of your own. Create a personalized e-label on the spine and make this elegant drive your digital life.
My Book® Elite™ External Hard Drives Premium backup and storage Customizable e-label Visual backup control center Password protection and hardware-based encryption With reassuring visual backup, drive encryption, and password protection, the My Book Elite is one safe place for all the chapters of your own. Create a personalized e-label on the spine and make this elegant drive your digital life.
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...regions. © 2009 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Power miser My Book external drives are trademarks of the world. temperature: -20°C to 35°C Non-op. Limited Warranty 3 years Americas 3 years EMEA 3 years APAC 3 years Japan Western Digital, WD, the WD ...Leopard™ (requires reformatting) Capacities and models 2 TB WDBAAH0020HCH 1.5 TB WDBAAH0015HCH 1 TB WDBAAH0010HCH 640 GB WDBAAH6400ECH Kit Contents External hard drive WD SmartWare software USB cable AC adapter Quick Install Guide operating Specifications Data transfer rate:1 Up to 480 Mb/sec Operating ...
...regions. © 2009 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Power miser My Book external drives are trademarks of the world. temperature: -20°C to 35°C Non-op. Limited Warranty 3 years Americas 3 years EMEA 3 years APAC 3 years Japan Western Digital, WD, the WD ...Leopard™ (requires reformatting) Capacities and models 2 TB WDBAAH0020HCH 1.5 TB WDBAAH0015HCH 1 TB WDBAAH0010HCH 640 GB WDBAAH6400ECH Kit Contents External hard drive WD SmartWare software USB cable AC adapter Quick Install Guide operating Specifications Data transfer rate:1 Up to 480 Mb/sec Operating ...
WD SmartWare User Manual
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... (reformatted for Windows operating systems) - My Passport for Mac® (reformatted for Windows operating systems) ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 1 Hard Drive Support The WD SmartWare software supports the following Windows® operating systems: • Windows XP • Windows Vista® • Windows 7...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 the following WD external devices: • Direct-attached My Book®...
... (reformatted for Windows operating systems) - My Passport for Mac® (reformatted for Windows operating systems) ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 1 Hard Drive Support The WD SmartWare software supports the following Windows® operating systems: • Windows XP • Windows Vista® • Windows 7...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 the following WD external devices: • Direct-attached My Book®...
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... software displays a selector box that were not originally configured for compatibility with Windows operating systems to it. For information about reformatting your computer's internal hard drive and each supported external device connected to use to specify the one you want to work with . • The by -category dialog provides content gauges showing the...
... software displays a selector box that were not originally configured for compatibility with Windows operating systems to it. For information about reformatting your computer's internal hard drive and each supported external device connected to use to specify the one you want to work with . • The by -category dialog provides content gauges showing the...
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...you want to retrieve files from , or customize when you have more than one • The external device that you want to back up and retrieving files and making your software and drive setup selections • WD Customer Support and software update services See "Help Tab Display" on ...Software Settings screen. ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 3 Home Tab Display Use the Home tab display to view hard drive content gauges and select: • The internal hard drive or hard drive partition that you want to back up files from or copy retrieved files to when your computer has more than ...
...you want to retrieve files from , or customize when you have more than one • The external device that you want to back up and retrieving files and making your software and drive setup selections • WD Customer Support and software update services See "Help Tab Display" on ...Software Settings screen. ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 3 Home Tab Display Use the Home tab display to view hard drive content gauges and select: • The internal hard drive or hard drive partition that you want to back up files from or copy retrieved files to when your computer has more than ...
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... hard drive or drive partition, the WD SmartWare software displays a selector box below your computer icon for specifying the drive or partition that you want to use for backup and retrieve functions: External device icon Provides a graphic representation and name of the internal hard drive or drive ...partition on your computer, left-click the icon for the one external device connected to your computer that you want to ...
... hard drive or drive partition, the WD SmartWare software displays a selector box below your computer icon for specifying the drive or partition that you want to use for backup and retrieve functions: External device icon Provides a graphic representation and name of the internal hard drive or drive ...partition on your computer, left-click the icon for the one external device connected to your computer that you want to ...
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... software-before running a backup or copying files to the external device, the external device content gauge shows: • All of category- Use the Backup tab displays to select the files or categories of files that your computer's internal hard drive (see "Your computer's content gauge" on how you ...want to select files to the device-the external device content gauge shows only a small number of the Backup tab displays. These are ...
... software-before running a backup or copying files to the external device, the external device content gauge shows: • All of category- Use the Backup tab displays to select the files or categories of files that your computer's internal hard drive (see "Your computer's content gauge" on how you ...want to select files to the device-the external device content gauge shows only a small number of the Backup tab displays. These are ...
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... computer's content gauge Same as the content gauge for your computer's hard drive on the Home tab display. (See "Your computer's content gauge" on page 7.) External device content gauge Same as the content gauge for your external device on the Home tab display. (See "External device content gauge" on page 8.) (Continued) ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE...
... computer's content gauge Same as the content gauge for your computer's hard drive on the Home tab display. (See "Your computer's content gauge" on page 7.) External device content gauge Same as the content gauge for your external device on the Home tab display. (See "External device content gauge" on page 8.) (Continued) ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE...
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... Backup when the backup mode is category. • File mode-Backs up files according to retrieve from your external device See Figure 3 and Table 3 on your external device. The button name is file. ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 11 Backup Tab Functional Description (Continued)...stopping the backup. Retrieve Tab Displays Three Retrieve tab displays guide you through finding backup files and copying them to your computer's internal hard drive: • Selecting the backup volume to retrieve from • Selecting the destination for retrieved files • Selecting the files to...
... Backup when the backup mode is category. • File mode-Backs up files according to retrieve from your external device See Figure 3 and Table 3 on your external device. The button name is file. ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 11 Backup Tab Functional Description (Continued)...stopping the backup. Retrieve Tab Displays Three Retrieve tab displays guide you through finding backup files and copying them to your computer's internal hard drive: • Selecting the backup volume to retrieve from • Selecting the destination for retrieved files • Selecting the files to...
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...single folder. Retrieve Tab Functional Description (Continued) Display Component Description Retrieve destination option buttons Specify the location on the selected external device in a folder structure with check boxes for selecting individual files or folders: Start/cancel retrieving toggle button Controls ... files from the selected backup volume on your computer's internal hard drive where you can use to the same location that you want to copy the files retrieved from the selected backup volume on the selected external device. WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL Table 3.
...single folder. Retrieve Tab Functional Description (Continued) Display Component Description Retrieve destination option buttons Specify the location on the selected external device in a folder structure with check boxes for selecting individual files or folders: Start/cancel retrieving toggle button Controls ... files from the selected backup volume on your computer's internal hard drive where you can use to the same location that you want to copy the files retrieved from the selected backup volume on the selected external device. WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL Table 3.
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.... . Click Start > All Programs > Western Digital > WD SmartWare > WD SmartWare to online support services, THEN click the . . . Back up the files on your computer's internal hard drive to your external device, Retrieve backed up files from your external device, Create a password to keep others ...from accessing the files on your external device, Customize the settings of your external device, Customize the settings of the ...
.... . Click Start > All Programs > Western Digital > WD SmartWare > WD SmartWare to online support services, THEN click the . . . Back up the files on your computer's internal hard drive to your external device, Retrieve backed up files from your external device, Create a password to keep others ...from accessing the files on your external device, Customize the settings of your external device, Customize the settings of the ...
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...by backing up any: • New file that is created on or copied to your internal hard drive • Existing file that is changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your external device is automatic-the WD SmartWare software does it for you without any action on your important.... Then, whenever you can select specific files, folders, or categories of files on your part-just make sure to leave your external device connected to your computer's icon to select the one internal hard drive or drive partition, use the internal drive selector box under your computer.
...by backing up any: • New file that is created on or copied to your internal hard drive • Existing file that is changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your external device is automatic-the WD SmartWare software does it for you without any action on your important.... Then, whenever you can select specific files, folders, or categories of files on your part-just make sure to leave your external device connected to your computer's icon to select the one internal hard drive or drive partition, use the internal drive selector box under your computer.
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... d. Skip to use the selector box under the device icon to perform category backup appears at the upper-left corner of files on the internal hard drive and skip to step 6 on page 9). 3. c. Click Advanced View to open the backup by categories selection box and verify that you want ...to step 7 on the internal hard drive: a. Verify that the backup mode is category and that Ready to create a custom backup plan and refresh the content gauge for your external device. On the Backup screen: IF you want to step 5. To back...
... d. Skip to use the selector box under the device icon to perform category backup appears at the upper-left corner of files on the internal hard drive and skip to step 6 on page 9). 3. c. Click Advanced View to open the backup by categories selection box and verify that you want ...to step 7 on the internal hard drive: a. Verify that the backup mode is category and that Ready to create a custom backup plan and refresh the content gauge for your external device. On the Backup screen: IF you want to step 5. To back...
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...on page 31. 6. Verify that the backup mode is file and that Ready to step 8 on the internal hard drive: a. c. WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL If the backup mode is file and Ready to perform file backup appears...external device. In the backup by categories selection box: • Clear the check boxes for the categories of files that you want to exclude from the backup. • As required, select the check boxes for each one internal hard drive or hard drive...custom backup plan and refresh the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive: If your external device.
...on page 31. 6. Verify that the backup mode is file and that Ready to step 8 on the internal hard drive: a. c. WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL If the backup mode is file and Ready to perform file backup appears...external device. In the backup by categories selection box: • Clear the check boxes for the categories of files that you want to exclude from the backup. • As required, select the check boxes for each one internal hard drive or hard drive...custom backup plan and refresh the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive: If your external device.
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... yet been backed up. • The gray background for categories or files in the content gauge for all of files and folders on the internal hard drive and skip to step 8. 8. e. To backup selected files or folders: a. Click Apply Changes to perform file backup appears at the Switching Backup ...that has been backed up. • For a category backup, the blue background in the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive changes to yellow/amber for your external device changes to blue as the backup completes. • You can continue to File Backup button and OK at the upper-...
... yet been backed up. • The gray background for categories or files in the content gauge for all of files and folders on the internal hard drive and skip to step 8. 8. e. To backup selected files or folders: a. Click Apply Changes to perform file backup appears at the Switching Backup ...that has been backed up. • For a category backup, the blue background in the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive changes to yellow/amber for your external device changes to blue as the backup completes. • You can continue to File Backup button and OK at the upper-...
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...be backed up . b. confirmation prompt reminds you can click to complete the backup. If any files could not be to relegate the drive to follow through with your future requirements. 10. c. To continue, click either: • Continue Backup to disregard your request and ...files by category and your computer has more than one internal hard drive, repeat the backup procedure for other things during the backup. Click the Help tab. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to view the Western Digital Online Store website. If you clicked Stop Backup at step 8,...
...be backed up . b. confirmation prompt reminds you can click to complete the backup. If any files could not be to relegate the drive to follow through with your future requirements. 10. c. To continue, click either: • Continue Backup to disregard your request and ...files by category and your computer has more than one internal hard drive, repeat the backup procedure for other things during the backup. Click the Help tab. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to view the Western Digital Online Store website. If you clicked Stop Backup at step 8,...