Unlocking Your Drive; Unlocking Your Drive With The Wd Smartware Software - Western Digital My Book WDBAAF0010HBK User Manual

9. Click Save Security Settings to save your password and enable password
protection for your drive.
CAUTION! After creating a password, the drive remains unlocked for as long as
you continue your current work session. Then, the WD SmartWare software:
• Locks the drive when you shut down your computer or disconnect your drive
• Requires you to type your password to unlock the drive when you restart your computer
or reconnect your drive

Unlocking Your Drive

After you have created a password to keep others from accessing the files on your drive,
you will have to type your password to unlock the drive whenever you:
• Shut down and restart your computer
• Disconnect and reconnect the drive to your computer
You will have to do this even if you do not have the WD SmartWare software installed on
your computer.

Unlocking Your 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 the Unlock My Book
prompt:
To unlock your drive:
1.
Type your password in the Password box.
If you provided a password hint when you created your password, click the
Password hint pointer to see the hint.
2. Click Unlock to unlock your drive and enable the WD SmartWare software.
Clicking Cancel leaves the drive locked and inhibits access to the Backup and
Retrieve functions.
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