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...glance how much space is protected from the WD SmartWare control center. • Drive lock-Gain peace of your digital life. The new sleeker design brings beauty and brains together. Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from unauthorized access ...less space on your desk and allows two or 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 ...
...glance how much space is protected from the WD SmartWare control center. • Drive lock-Gain peace of your digital life. The new sleeker design brings beauty and brains together. Customize your backup, set drive security, run diagnostics, manage the power settings, and more from unauthorized access ...less space on your desk and allows two or 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 ...
User Manual
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... to http://products.wdc.com/updates. We encourage you to minimize waste. 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 the latest WD product information and...
... to http://products.wdc.com/updates. We encourage you to minimize waste. 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 the latest WD product information and...
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... to : • Protect your operating system files that you have retrieved from a prior backup. In the Content Gauge for your My Book drive, the Additional Files category includes all of the files shown in the upperright corner of the screen. Files that are not backed up include system...system and hidden files that your computer's operating system put there when you installed the drive. They, too, are shown in the WD Knowledge Base at http://support.wdc.com. In this case, however, you will not be able to quickly guide you through your My Book as an external hard drive.
... to : • Protect your operating system files that you have retrieved from a prior backup. In the Content Gauge for your My Book drive, the Additional Files category includes all of the files shown in the upperright corner of the screen. Files that are not backed up include system...system and hidden files that your computer's operating system put there when you installed the drive. They, too, are shown in the WD Knowledge Base at http://support.wdc.com. In this case, however, you will not be able to quickly guide you through your My Book as an external hard drive.
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The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to suit your future requirements. 5. b. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to longterm archive storage and: a. Pausing the backup until your computer is idle Selecting Specific Content to back up some of your ... screen (see Figure 10 on the drive to complete the backup. MY BOOK ELITE USER MANUAL Important: Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your drive is full means that the WD SmartWare software runs your backup job in the WD Online box to view the Western Digital Online Store website.
The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive to suit your future requirements. 5. b. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to longterm archive storage and: a. Pausing the backup until your computer is idle Selecting Specific Content to back up some of your ... screen (see Figure 10 on the drive to complete the backup. MY BOOK ELITE USER MANUAL Important: Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your drive is full means that the WD SmartWare software runs your backup job in the WD Online box to view the Western Digital Online Store website.
Product Specifications
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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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... 2.0 interface A simple connection that belong to remind you add or change without notice. My Book Elite External Hard Drives Product Features See your data or just overwritten an important file. Streamlined design We've made these regions. © 2009 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elite, WD GreenPower Technology and WD SmartWare are designed to change a file.
... 2.0 interface A simple connection that belong to remind you add or change without notice. My Book Elite External Hard Drives Product Features See your data or just overwritten an important file. Streamlined design We've made these regions. © 2009 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elite, WD GreenPower Technology and WD SmartWare are designed to change a file.
WD SmartWare User Manual
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...theft with the following WD external devices: • Direct-attached My Book® Drives - My Book Essential™ - My Passport SE for Mac (reformatted for Windows operating systems) - My Passport Studio™ (reformatted for Windows operating systems) - Hard Drive Support The WD SmartWare ...-Customize your data automatically-Relax! My Book Studio™ (reformatted for Windows operating systems) • Direct-attached My Passport® Drives - WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL 1 About the WD SmartWare Software 1 WD SmartWare™ software is an easy-to-use backup ...
...theft with the following WD external devices: • Direct-attached My Book® Drives - My Book Essential™ - My Passport SE for Mac (reformatted for Windows operating systems) - My Passport Studio™ (reformatted for Windows operating systems) - Hard Drive Support The WD SmartWare ...-Customize your data automatically-Relax! My Book Studio™ (reformatted for Windows operating systems) • Direct-attached My Passport® Drives - WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL 1 About the WD SmartWare Software 1 WD SmartWare™ software is an easy-to-use backup ...
WD SmartWare User Manual
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...has more than one you can use them with . For information about reformatting your computer's internal hard drive and each supported external device connected to it. Five tabs and content gauges showing the total capacity and category structure of your computer's... internal hard drive for compatibility with Windows operating systems to use to specify the one internal hard drive or multiple hard drive partitions, or if a connected external device has multiple partitions or network shares, then the WD SmartWare ...
...has more than one you can use them with . For information about reformatting your computer's internal hard drive and each supported external device connected to it. Five tabs and content gauges showing the total capacity and category structure of your computer's... internal hard drive for compatibility with Windows operating systems to use to specify the one internal hard drive or multiple hard drive partitions, or if a connected external device has multiple partitions or network shares, then the WD SmartWare ...
WD SmartWare User Manual
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... of your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. 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 customize when you are uncertain about what to...Provides . . . One of the connected device. WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL The . . . Whenever you have more than one • The external device that you through your connected device. ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 3 Note: In addition to the detailed Help tab information, each display,...
... of your backup, retrieve, and settings tasks. 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 customize when you are uncertain about what to...Provides . . . One of the connected device. WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL The . . . Whenever you have more than one • The external device that you through your connected device. ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 3 Note: In addition to the detailed Help tab information, each display,...
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... 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 page 4.) If your computer icon for specifying the drive or partition that you want to use for backup and retrieve... Component Description Your computer icon Provides a graphic representation and name of the external device connected to your system to your computer, left-click the icon for the one internal hard drive or drive partition, the WD SmartWare software displays a selector box below your computer has...
... 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 page 4.) If your computer icon for specifying the drive or partition that you want to use for backup and retrieve... Component Description Your computer icon Provides a graphic representation and name of the external device connected to your system to your computer, left-click the icon for the one internal hard drive or drive partition, the WD SmartWare software displays a selector box below your computer has...
WD SmartWare User Manual
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... up in the same categories as the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive (see "Your computer's content gauge" on page 7) • Any other files that you have copied or saved to the external device in the Additional Files category Backup Tab Displays The WD SmartWare software provides...you installed the device. After running your first backup or copying any files to the device-the external device content gauge shows only a small number of files that your computer's internal hard drive See "How the Backup Function Works" on how you want to back up and control the backup...
... up in the same categories as the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive (see "Your computer's content gauge" on page 7) • Any other files that you have copied or saved to the external device in the Additional Files category Backup Tab Displays The WD SmartWare software provides...you installed the device. After running your first backup or copying any files to the device-the external device content gauge shows only a small number of files that your computer's internal hard drive See "How the Backup Function Works" on how you want to back up and control the backup...
WD SmartWare User Manual
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... Computer's Content Gauge Backup by Files Display External Device Content Gauge Category/File Backup Toggle Button Figure 2. Backup Tab Functional Description Display Component Description Your 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.) (...
... Computer's Content Gauge Backup by Files Display External Device Content Gauge Category/File Backup Toggle Button Figure 2. Backup Tab Functional Description Display Component Description Your 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.) (...
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... 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 your external device See Figure 3 and Table 3 on page 12 for retrieved files • Selecting the files to their folder structure on...
... 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 your external device See Figure 3 and Table 3 on page 12 for retrieved files • Selecting the files to their folder structure on...
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... only selected files or folders. 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 retrieve operations by starting ... Files selection box and the WD SmartWare software retrieves all of the files from the selected backup volume on your computer's internal hard drive where you can use to a single folder. ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 13
... only selected files or folders. 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 retrieve operations by starting ... Files selection box and the WD SmartWare software retrieves all of the files from the selected backup volume on your computer's internal hard drive where you can use to a single folder. ABOUT THE WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE - 13
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... links 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 display the Home screen (see . . . "Backing Up Your Computer Files" ...on your external device, Customize the settings of your external device, Customize the settings of the Windows taskbar: WD Quick View Icon b. "Securing the Drive" on page 33. Click Start > All Programs > Western Digital > WD SmartWare > WD SmartWare to keep others ...
... links 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 display the Home screen (see . . . "Backing Up Your Computer Files" ...on your external device, Customize the settings of your external device, Customize the settings of the Windows taskbar: WD Quick View Icon b. "Securing the Drive" on page 33. Click Start > All Programs > Western Digital > WD SmartWare > WD SmartWare to keep others ...
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...just make sure to leave your external device connected to back up first: b. Backing Up Files To back up your computer, select the one external device connected to select the one internal hard drive or drive partition, use the internal drive selector box under your computer. ...Verify that is changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your external device is automatic-the WD SmartWare...
...just make sure to leave your external device connected to back up first: b. Backing Up Files To back up your computer, select the one external device connected to select the one internal hard drive or drive partition, use the internal drive selector box under your computer. ...Verify that is changed files and resumes automatic, continuous backup as your external device is automatic-the WD SmartWare...
WD SmartWare User Manual
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... categories of the Backup screen. Verify that the backup mode is category and that Ready to step 7 on the internal hard drive, THEN . . . Skip to perform category backup appears at the Switching Backup Plan prompt. WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL... Click Advanced View to open the backup by categories selection box and verify that you want to step 8 on the internal hard drive: a. Skip to step 4. b. If the backup mode is file and Ready to perform file backup appears there, then ... the selected device has more than one that the check boxes for your external device.
... categories of the Backup screen. Verify that the backup mode is category and that Ready to step 7 on the internal hard drive, THEN . . . Skip to perform category backup appears at the Switching Backup Plan prompt. WD SMARTWARE SOFTWARE USER MANUAL... Click Advanced View to open the backup by categories selection box and verify that you want to step 8 on the internal hard drive: a. Skip to step 4. b. If the backup mode is file and Ready to perform file backup appears there, then ... the selected device has more than one that the check boxes for your external device.
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.... 6. In the backup by files selection box, select the check box for your computer's internal hard drive: If your computer has more than one . d. Click Apply Changes to step 8 on the internal hard drive: a. c. e. b. BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 30 Click Apply Changes to begin backing...of files and skip to create a custom backup plan and refresh the content gauge for each one internal hard drive or hard drive partition, select the check box for your external device. b. Click Start Backup to create a custom backup plan and refresh the content gauge for the ...
.... 6. In the backup by files selection box, select the check box for your computer's internal hard drive: If your computer has more than one . d. Click Apply Changes to step 8 on the internal hard drive: a. c. e. b. BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 30 Click Apply Changes to begin backing...of files and skip to create a custom backup plan and refresh the content gauge for each one internal hard drive or hard drive partition, select the check box for your external device. b. Click Start Backup to create a custom backup plan and refresh the content gauge for the ...
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... the upper-left corner of the subfolders and files in the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive changes to yellow/amber for all of the files that Ready to Stop Backup for your external device changes to blue as the backup completes. • You can continue to set up your recent...
... the upper-left corner of the subfolders and files in the content gauge for your computer's internal hard drive changes to yellow/amber for all of the files that Ready to Stop Backup for your external device changes to blue as the backup completes. • You can continue to set up your recent...
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Click the Help tab. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to follow through with your future requirements. 10. confirmation prompt reminds you that there is not enough free space on the drive to view the Western Digital Online Store website. c. To continue, click either: • Continue Backup to ... WD SmartWare software runs your backup job in the background so you can continue using your computer has more than one internal hard drive, repeat the backup procedure for other things during the backup. If you cannot determine why some of the files and the ...
Click the Help tab. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to follow through with your future requirements. 10. confirmation prompt reminds you that there is not enough free space on the drive to view the Western Digital Online Store website. c. To continue, click either: • Continue Backup to ... WD SmartWare software runs your backup job in the background so you can continue using your computer has more than one internal hard drive, repeat the backup procedure for other things during the backup. If you cannot determine why some of the files and the ...