Connecting The Drive; Getting Started With The Wd Software - Western Digital My Book User Manual

Connecting the Drive and Getting Started
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This chapter provides instructions for connecting the drive and installing the WD
software on your computer. It includes the following topics:

Connecting the Drive

Getting Started with the WD Software

Connecting the Drive
1. Turn on your computer.
2. Connect the drive to your computer as shown in the illustration below.
3. Verify that the drive appears in your computer's file management utility listing.
4. If a Found New Hardware screen appears, click
software installs the proper driver for your drive.
Your My Book drive is now ready to use as an external storage device. You can
enhance its capabilities by installing the WD software that is on the drive:
▪ WD Discovery
▪ WD Backup
▪ WD Security
▪ WD Drive Utilities
Getting Started with the WD Software
1. For Windows, run WD Discovery.exe to install WD software to help you get a
backup plan and modify drive settings. If you don't have internet connectivity,
please install WD Backup
Offline Installers > For Windows folder.
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and WD Drive Utilities
Connecting the Drive and Getting Started
to close it. The WD
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