Using The Drive With A Mac; Reformatting The Drive; Installing On A Mac Os X Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard - Western Digital My Book WDBAAH0015HCH User Manual

Using the Drive with a Mac

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This chapter includes the following topics:

Reformatting the Drive

Installing on a Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard

Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO
WD SmartWare Icon
Opening WD SmartWare Software
Dismounting the Virtual CD
Safely Dismounting the Drive
Displaying the Status, Serial Number, and Temperature
Unlocking the Drive Manually
Uninstalling WD SmartWare Software
The My Book Essential drive you purchased is preformatted as a single NTFS partition
for compatibility with all updated Windows operating systems. To use the drive on Mac
OS X operating systems, and to use Time Machine, if desired, you must reformat it to
HFS+J.
Reformatting the Drive
CAUTION! Reformatting the drive erases all its contents. If you have already
saved files on the drive, be sure to back them up before reformatting it.
Go to support.wdc.com. Refer to Knowledge Base Answer ID 3323 for reformatting the
drive to Mac OS X format. (See ID 3645 for formatting a Mac to the NTFS file system for
use on Windows XP and ID 3647 for formatting it for Windows Vista). See
"Troubleshooting" on page 55 for more information about reformatting a drive.
If you reformat your drive for use with a Mac, follow the procedures below.
Installing on a Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard
After you physically connect the drive as shown in Figure 3 on page 7, the
WD SmartWare virtual CD mounts on the desktop and is listed under Devices in Finder.
Note: WD Smartware software is provided in the form of a virtual CD (VCD) drive
The My Book icon also displays on the desktop.
on your My Book drive. The VCD displays on your desktop and behaves
just like a physical CD.
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