About Your Wd Drive; Drive Format; Led Indicators - Western Digital My Book WDH1Q10000 User Manual

About Your WD Drive

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Drive Format

This WD device is preformatted to HFS+ (Journaled) for compatibility with Macintosh
operating systems. To reformat the device to Windows, visit support.wdc.com and
search our knowledge base for answer ID# 1550.
Important: Reformatting My Book erases all its contents including the preloaded
software. If you have already saved files on My Book, be sure to back them up before
reformatting.

LED Indicators

The power/activity LED is located on the center, front panel of the device. The LED
indicators function as follows.
Power/Activity LED
Appearance
Steady
Fast flashing (for approx. 3 seconds)
Slow flashing (every 5 seconds)
Alternating top and bottom
Capacity Gauge
USB and FireWire Mode
The Capacity Gauge is enabled only through installation of its driver and WD Button
Manager, which must be installed on each system to which My Book is connected.
The Capacity Gauge is updated automatically upon drive usage.
eSATA Mode
Capacity Gauge is not available in eSATA mode.
MY BOOK STUDIO EDITION
Description
Power-on state or power-save mode
Transitioning to system standby
System standby
Drive in use
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