Resetting Your Drive And Password; Manually Resetting The Drive; Restoring Factory Settings Using The Dashboard - Western Digital MY PASSPORT WIRELESS PRO User Manual

Resetting Your Drive and Password

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This chapter includes the following topics:

Manually Resetting the Drive

Restoring Factory Settings Using the Dashboard

You can perform a system-only reset of your drive two ways: manually and on the
dashboard's Admin page. When the drive resets, your data remains but settings such as
your password return to default values.You can perform a system and disk reset on the
Admin page.
M M anually Resetting the Drive
Use the following steps to reset your My Passport Wireless Pro drive.
Note:
1. With the power on, hold down the Power and WPS buttons at the same time for
approximately 10 seconds until the drive reboots and the Power and Battery Status
LEDs flash blue.
2. Wait until the Wi-Fi LED stops flashing before reconnecting.
Restoring Factory Settings Using the Dashboard
1. Click the Admin icon on the navigation bar to display the Admin screen
Warning:
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Use the following steps to reset your My Passport Wireless Pro drive.
Interrupting the factory restore process may damage the My Passport Wireless drive.
Wait until the reboot is completed to use the drive again.
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