Turning Off The Drive Lock Feature - Western Digital WDA4NC20000 - ShareSpace NAS 2TB HD 1TB x 2 RAID User Manual

Turning Off the Drive Lock Feature

To remove password protection from your drive:
1.
On the Home screen, if you have more than one external device connected to your
computer, select the icon for the one that you want to remove password protection
from.
2. Click the Settings tab and Set Up Drive to display the Drive Settings screen (see
Figure 4 on page 15).
Note: If you see the Software Settings screen instead of the WD SmartWare Settings tab
display with the Set Up Drive button, then you must use the WD Security software
to remove password protection from the selected external device.
3. On the Drive Settings screen, click Security to display the Your Drive is Secure
dialog:
4. On the Your Drive is Secure dialog:
a. Type your password in the Password box.
b. Select the Remove security option.
c. Click Update Security Settings.
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