Erasing The Drive - Western Digital My Book WDBACW0030H User Manual

2. In the Turn off Drive box, select the inactivity time interval at which you want to turn
off the drive.
3. Click Set Timer to save and implement your sleep timer selection.

Erasing the Drive

CAUTION! Erasing your drive permanently deletes all of the data on your drive.
Always make sure that you no longer need any of the data on your drive before
erasing the drive.
Note: Erasing your drive also deletes the WD SmartWare software and all of the
support files, utilities, online help and user manual files. You can download
these to restore your My Book to its original configuration after erasing the
drive.
The
WD SmartWare software provides two ways to erase your drive, depending on whether your
My Book drive is locked or not:
IF your drive is . . .
Not locked,
Locked,
Using the Drive Settings Drive Erase Function. To erase your
is not locked:
1.
On the Drive Settings screen (see Figure 17 on page 27), click Drive Erase to display
the Erase Drive dialog:
2. Read the warning about the loss of data if you erase your drive.
3. Click the I understand check box to signify that you accept the risk.
4. Click Drive Erase to erase your drive.
After the drive erase operation completes, go to
Base Answer ID #5419 for information about downloading and restoring the
WD SmartWare software and disk image on your My Book drive.
Note: Erasing your drive also removes your password. If you still want to use a
password to protect your drive, you will need to re-create it after restoring
the WD SmartWare software and disk image. (See "Password Protecting
the Drive" on page 27.)
AND you . . .
Want to erase the drive,
Have forgotten or lost your
password and must erase the
drive,
THEN see . . .
"Using the Drive Settings Drive
Erase Function" in the following
section.
"Using the Drive Unlock Utility"
on page 39.
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