Western Digital WDBAAF5000EBK Support Question
Western Digital WDBAAF5000EBK Support Question
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Answer #1: Posted by jolt on December 19th, 2011 11:35 AM
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Product Specifications (pdf) - Page 2
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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 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Visual backup displays your content in the U.S.
WD GreenPower Technology™ lowers internal drive power consumption by up .
Product Specifications
Interface USB 2.0
Kit Contents External hard drive WD...
User Manual - Page 3
iii Table of Contents
MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUALL
WD Service and Support ii Accessing Online Support ii Contacting WD Technical Support ii
1 About Your WD Drive 1
Features 1 Kit Contents 2 Optional Accessories 2 Operating System Compatibility 3 Disk Drive Format 3 Physical Description 3
Power/Activity LED 4 Power Button 4 USB 3.0 Interface 4 Kensington® Security Slot 5 ...
User Manual - Page 4
... MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUALL
5 Locking and Unlocking the Drive 27
Password Protecting the Drive 27 Unlocking the Drive 28
Unlocking the Drive with the WD SmartWare Software 29 Unlocking the Drive Without the WD SmartWare Software 29 Changing Your Password 30 Turning Off the Drive Lock Feature 31
6 Managing and Customizing Your Drive 32
Using the WD SmartWare Icon 32 Opening the WD...
User Manual - Page 5
v MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUALL
Unlocking the Drive 53 Unlocking the Drive with the WD SmartWare Software 53 Unlocking the Drive Without the WD SmartWare Software 55
Uninstalling WD SmartWare Software 56
9 Troubleshooting 57
Installing, Partitioning, and Formatting the Drive 57 Frequently Asked Questions 57
A Installing the SES Driver 59
Installing on Windows XP Computers 59 Installing...
User Manual - Page 6
..., sleeker, more streamlined design-We've made these award-winning drives even smaller, sleeker, and more My Book drives to :
• Protect your backup as it happens, and brings back lost files effortlessly. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
11 About Your WD Drive Welcome to your My Book® Essential external hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity storage solution for all your data...
User Manual - Page 7
... My Book Essential disk drive kit includes the following: • My Book Essential external hard drive • WD SmartWare software (included on the drive) • USB cable • AC adapter • Quick Install Guide
USB Cable
Quick Install Guide
AC Adapter
My Book Essential Drive
Figure 1. For a list of the software supports up to three WD drives (My Book or My Passport drives with...
User Manual - Page 8
... the latest updates and service pack (SP). For Windows computers, go to use the drive with a Mac computer, see "Reformatting the Drive" on page 44 and "Troubleshooting" on page 57. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Operating System Compatibility
Your My Book Essential drive and the WD SmartWare software are compatible with the following operating systems:
Windows® • Windows...
User Manual - Page 9
... rates up to 5 Gb/s. The power button only works when the WD SmartWare software is backwardcompatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. Connection to a USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 port transfers data at the port speed:
• USB 2.0-up to 480 Mb/s
• USB 1.1-up to 12 Mb/s
ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE - 4 MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Power Button USB 3.0
Kensington...
User Manual - Page 14
... GETTING STARTED - 9 Skip to display the WD SmartWare initial Drive Settings screen (Figure 7 on page 37 before clicking Continue to the initial Backup screen.
After that, launching the software displays the Home screen so you install the WD SmartWare software on page 23. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
4. After the software installation completes:
IF you want...
User Manual - Page 17
...easy-to-use tool that gives you the power to: • Secure your drive-In drive settings, create a password to your computer, the WD SmartWare software rescans your computer for as long as it happens-Seeing is connected ... backup as before. • See your backup as your My Book drive is believing. CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED - 12 MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Figure 9.
User Manual - Page 18
... box under the name of your operating system files that drive. CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED - 13 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 any location on your computer
In...
User Manual - Page 19
... STARTED - 14 MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
In the Content Gauge for your My Book drive, the Additional Files category includes all of the files shown in six categories: • Documents • Mail • Music • Pictures • Other
See "WD SmartWare Home Screen" on page 27)
As you copy files to the drive-represents the system...
User Manual - Page 24
... b. Click External Hard Drives and select the best drive to suit your request, stop the backup before it completes, the WD SmartWare software ...drive to complete the backup. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Important: Appearance of a Caution message indicating that your drive is full
means that were just copied to your My Book drive. The best long-term solution would be to relegate the drive...
User Manual - Page 34
... Book image above the Drive is locked. LOCKING AND UNLOCKING THE DRIVE - 29 MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Unlocking the Drive with the WD SmartWare Software
Whenever you can use the WD SmartWare Drive Unlock utility to unlock the drive there. Click Unlock to unlock your password in the Password box. 3.
The WD SmartWare software provides the Drive Unlock utility on a "virtual" CD drive...
User Manual - Page 37
... clicking the icon, you can start it by: • Clicking Start > (All) Programs > WD SmartWare > WDSmartWare • Double-clicking the WD SmartWare icon in the taskbar Note: You can also left-
MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
16 Managing and Customizing Your Drive This chapter includes the following sections describe how to use the icon and other...
User Manual - Page 38
... flashes to turn off before disconnecting the drive from your computer by using either: • The WD SmartWare icon in a Windows environment).
MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Monitoring Icon Alerts
The WD SmartWare icon in the taskbar, and then click Safely remove My
Book Essential USB HDD:
You might hear the drive power down. 2. Power it cool for the...
User Manual - Page 43
... of the data on your drive. 3.
Not locked,
Want to restore your drive also deletes the WD SmartWare software and all of the data on your drive.
Read the warning about downloading and restoring the WD SmartWare software and disk image on your My Book drive. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
2. Note: Erasing your My Book to support.wdc.com and...
User Manual - Page 46
... software there, you wish to restore the WD SmartWare software and disk image on your My Book drive, erasing or reformatting the drive also removes the WD SmartWare software and all of the support files, utilities, online help and user manual files. prompt. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Uninstalling on your My Book drive. If you ever need to proceed... Restoring...
User Manual - Page 58
... desktop and click Eject "MY BOOK"
where "MY BOOK" is the name you reformatted the drive for the drive icon to the volume when you assigned to disappear from the desktop before disconnecting the
drive from the computer. MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Using the My Book Icon
To safely dismount the drive using the drive power button:
1. or control-click...
User Manual - Page 60
MY BOOK ESSENTIAL USER MANUAL
Unlocking the Drive Without the WD SmartWare Software
Whenever you can use the WD SmartWare Drive Unlock utility to a computer that appears:
2. Type your password-protected drive to unlock the drive there. Double-click the WD Unlocker VCD icon and double-click the Drive Unlock icon on your desktop whenever the drive is locked:
To unlock the drive without...
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