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Table of Contents

• Retrieve screen—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see

Figure 11 on page 23)

• Settings screen—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup

parameters (see Figure 7 on page 18)

On the Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being categorized with the drop-

down selection box under the name of your computer. By selecting a different drive, the

system will identify the categories of files on that drive. Then click the Backup or

Retrieve tab to either back up from or retrieve files to a location other than your

computer's main hard drive.

In the Content Gauge for your computer's hard drive, all of your files that are available for

backup are shown against a blue background in categories that are based on the

following folders on your computer:

• Music

• Movies

• Pictures

• Mail

• Documents

• Other

Each category includes all of the files in the represented folder except the Other

category, which includes all of the files in all other folders on your computer.

Note that:

• The System category, shown against a dark gray background, includes all of your

operating system files that are not available for backup. Files that are not backed

up include system files, program files, applications, and working files.

• The Retrieved category, also shown against a dark gray background, shows the

files that you have retrieved from a prior backup. They, too, are not available for

backup.

• Hovering the cursor over a category displays the number of files in the category.

In the Content Gauge for your My Passport drive, the Additional Files category includes

all of the files shown in the used space portion of your drive properties. This space is not

available for backups.