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Contacting WD Technical Support When contacting WD for your WD product. • Registration-Register your WD product or software. ii WD Service and Support Should you encounter any problem, please give us keep you prefer, please contact WD® at the ... available. Accessing Online Support Visit our product support website at support.wdc.com and choose from these topics: • Downloads-Download drivers, software, and updates for support, have your first telephone contact with WD Technical Support. North America English Spanish Europe (toll free)* Europe Middle ...
Contacting WD Technical Support When contacting WD for your WD product. • Registration-Register your WD product or software. ii WD Service and Support Should you encounter any problem, please give us keep you prefer, please contact WD® at the ... available. Accessing Online Support Visit our product support website at support.wdc.com and choose from these topics: • Downloads-Download drivers, software, and updates for support, have your first telephone contact with WD Technical Support. North America English Spanish Europe (toll free)* Europe Middle ...
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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 2. Erasing the Drive CAUTION! You can download these to restore your My Passport to erase the drive, Locked, Have forgotten or lost your drive is . . . "Using the Drive Settings Drive Erase Function" in the following section. To erase... need to protect your drive, you will need any of data if you want to erase your drive, depending on your My Passport drive. The WD SmartWare software provides two ways to turn off Drive box, select the inactivity time interval at which you erase your drive permanently deletes all of...
MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 2. Erasing the Drive CAUTION! You can download these to restore your My Passport to erase the drive, Locked, Have forgotten or lost your drive is . . . "Using the Drive Settings Drive Erase Function" in the following section. To erase... need to protect your drive, you will need any of data if you want to erase your drive, depending on your My Passport drive. The WD SmartWare software provides two ways to turn off Drive box, select the inactivity time interval at which you erase your drive permanently deletes all of...
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...to the Home screen display • Add the Set Up Software and Set Up Drive options to do ? MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING YOUR DRIVE - 37 Read the warning about downloading and restoring the WD SmartWare software and disk image on your operating system's Add or Remove ... you like to uninstall the WD SmartWare software from the Drive Settings screen Uninstalling the WD SmartWare Software Important: You can easily uninstall the software. However, you accept the risk. 6. Note: Erasing your drive also removes your drive. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 4. Click the I ...
...to the Home screen display • Add the Set Up Software and Set Up Drive options to do ? MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING YOUR DRIVE - 37 Read the warning about downloading and restoring the WD SmartWare software and disk image on your operating system's Add or Remove ... you like to uninstall the WD SmartWare software from the Drive Settings screen Uninstalling the WD SmartWare Software Important: You can easily uninstall the software. However, you accept the risk. 6. Note: Erasing your drive also removes your drive. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 4. Click the I ...
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... computers, go to support.wdc.com and see Knowledge Base Answer ID #5419 for information about downloading and restoring the Mac version of the WD SmartWare software and disk image on your computer using the USB cable as a single NTFS partition for compatibility ...WD SmartWare Icon Opening the WD SmartWare Software Checking Drive Status Safely Dismounting the Drive Unlocking the Drive Uninstalling the WD SmartWare Software Reformatting the Drive CAUTION! MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 18 Using the Drive with a Mac The My Passport drive is preformatted as shown in ...
... computers, go to support.wdc.com and see Knowledge Base Answer ID #5419 for information about downloading and restoring the Mac version of the WD SmartWare software and disk image on your computer using the USB cable as a single NTFS partition for compatibility ...WD SmartWare Icon Opening the WD SmartWare Software Checking Drive Status Safely Dismounting the Drive Unlocking the Drive Uninstalling the WD SmartWare Software Reformatting the Drive CAUTION! MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL 18 Using the Drive with a Mac The My Passport drive is preformatted as shown in ...
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... power up? For more information about booting from Mac GPT to Windows Vista NTFS format Obtain and reinstall the original software included with limited bus power. however, Windows users can overcome these file size limitations by formatting the drive to Install... support.wdc.com/download. For more information in FAT32 when reformatting the drive, download the External USB/FireWire FAT32 Formatting Utility from your WD USB 3.0 external storage product. Outside the U.S., contact WD Technical Support in to a power source. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL...
... power up? For more information about booting from Mac GPT to Windows Vista NTFS format Obtain and reinstall the original software included with limited bus power. however, Windows users can overcome these file size limitations by formatting the drive to Install... support.wdc.com/download. For more information in FAT32 when reformatting the drive, download the External USB/FireWire FAT32 Formatting Utility from your WD USB 3.0 external storage product. Outside the U.S., contact WD Technical Support in to a power source. MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL...
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... computer is connected to the Internet • Manually, whether your computer must be connected to Windows Update • Finds, downloads, and installs the SES driver INSTALLING THE SES DRIVER - 60 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Installing on Windows Vista Computers After you physically connect the drive as the Found New Hardware... time as shown in Figure 3 on page 5, the Found New Hardware screen displays. On the Found New Hardware wizard screen, click Locate and install driver software: 3. If they appear, close them.
... computer is connected to the Internet • Manually, whether your computer must be connected to Windows Update • Finds, downloads, and installs the SES driver INSTALLING THE SES DRIVER - 60 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL Installing on Windows Vista Computers After you physically connect the drive as the Found New Hardware... time as shown in Figure 3 on page 5, the Found New Hardware screen displays. On the Found New Hardware wizard screen, click Locate and install driver software: 3. If they appear, close them.
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... drive format 54 Creating a password 25 D Disconnecting the drive from a PC 31 Disk image, downloading and restoring 38, 41 Dismounting drive from a Mac 49 Dock for drive 2 Documents file category 12...66 Erase Drive screen 35, 37 Erasing the drive 35 CAUTION about erasing the drive 35 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL F FCC Class B information 65 File categories, defined 12, 15 history, drive... 67 M Mac 50 dismounting drive from 49 reformatting the drive to 41 restarting WD SmartWare software 47 serial number 50 space available 50 unlocking the drive from the Virtual CD 50 Mail ...
... drive format 54 Creating a password 25 D Disconnecting the drive from a PC 31 Disk image, downloading and restoring 38, 41 Dismounting drive from a Mac 49 Dock for drive 2 Documents file category 12...66 Erase Drive screen 35, 37 Erasing the drive 35 CAUTION about erasing the drive 35 MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE USER MANUAL F FCC Class B information 65 File categories, defined 12, 15 history, drive... 67 M Mac 50 dismounting drive from 49 reformatting the drive to 41 restarting WD SmartWare software 47 serial number 50 space available 50 unlocking the drive from the Virtual CD 50 Mail ...