Locking And Unlocking Your Drive; Password Protecting Your Drive - Western Digital My Passport WDBACX0010B User Manual

Locking and Unlocking Your Drive

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This chapter includes the following topics:

Password Protecting Your Drive

Unlocking Your Drive
Turning Off the Drive Lock Feature
Changing Your Password
Password Protecting Your Drive
You should password protect your drive if you are worried that someone else will gain
access to your drive and you do not want them to be able to access your content on the
drive.
CAUTION! The WD SmartWare software uses your password to electronically
lock and unlock your drive. If you forget your password, you will not be able to
access the data that is on your drive or write new data to it. You will have to erase
the drive before you can use it again.
You can reach the Security pages for password management during the initial getting
started process or from the Settings tab and the Drive Settings screen within the
WD SmartWare application. After you are on the password page, you can:
• Create a password
• Change a password
• Eliminate the need for a password
Important:
user logged on to the computer with administrative privileges. This is not usually
possible on computers at hotels, libraries, or Internet kiosks. If you need to use the
drive on such computers, do not create a password to lock your drive.
To create a password and keep others from accessing the files on your drive, as an
example from the Settings tab:
Click the Settings tab to display the Settings screen (see Figure 10 on
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page 19).
2. Click Set Up Drive to display the Drive Settings screen (see Figure 16 on page 28).
After you have created a password, the drive can only be unlocked by a
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