Unlocking The Drive With The Wd Smartware Software - Western Digital My Book Studio User Manual

Unlocking the Drive with the WD SmartWare Software

Whenever you shut down and restart your computer, or disconnect and reconnect the
drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare software displays a Drive is locked
message in place of the Content Gauge for your My Book drive:
The procedure for unlocking your drive with the WD SmartWare software can be
automatic or manual, depending on whether the Please provide your password prompt
appears or not.
Automatically. Whenever the WD SmartWare software displays the WD SmartWare
drive unlock screen:
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, a drive 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 28
• WD SmartWare icon
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