Unlocking The Drive Without The Wd Smartware Software - Western Digital WDBAAA2500Axx - My Passport Essential User Manual

To unlock your drive:
1.
Type your password in the Password box.
2. Click Unlock to unlock your drive and enable the WD SmartWare software.
Manually. If your computer goes into sleep mode, an unlock screen might not display
when you reactivate it. To unlock the drive, you can use either the:
• WD Unlocker VCD as described in "Unlocking the Drive Without the
WD SmartWare Software" on page 51
• WD SmartWare icon
To unlock the drive manually, using the WD SmartWare icon:
1.
Click the WD SmartWare icon in the bar at the top-right corner of the screen.
2. Select the My Passport drive and then click Unlock Drive:
3. Type your password in the Password box and click Unlock on the WD SmartWare
Drive Unlock screen:
4. At the Your drive is now unlocked prompt, click Exit to close the WD SmartWare
Drive Unlock screen.

Unlocking the Drive Without the WD SmartWare Software

Whenever you connect your password-protected drive to a computer that does not have
the WD SmartWare software installed, you can use the WD SmartWare Drive Unlock
utility to unlock the drive there. The WD SmartWare software provides the Drive Unlock
utility on a "virtual" CD drive (VCD) that appears on your desktop:
To unlock the drive without the WD SmartWare software installed:
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