Customizing Your Drive Settings - Western Digital WDBAAA2500Axx - My Passport Essential User Manual

Customizing Your Drive Settings

The WD SmartWare software makes it easy for you to quickly customize the settings of
your drive for the best possible performance:
• Security—Create, modify, and disable passwords that keep others from
accessing the files on your drive.
• Registration—Register your drive to receive free technical support during the
warranty period and find out about software updates, product enhancements, and
price discount opportunities.
• Diagnostics—Run diagnostics and status checks to make sure your drive is
working properly.
• Sleep Timer—Turn your drive off during periods of extended inactivity to conserve
power and extend the life of the drive.
• Drive Erase—Erase all of the contents on the drive, including any password that
has been set.
• Preferences—Enable the Backup and Retrieve functions if you selected Install
Drive Settings at the What would you like to do? prompt on the Welcome to
WD SmartWare screen.
To customize your drive settings for the best possible performance, on either the
WD SmartWare Drive Settings screen or the drive management Drive Settings screen
(Figure 16 on page 25):
IF you want to . . .
Use a password to keep others
from accessing the files on your
drive,
Change your password,
Remove password protection from
your drive,
Register your drive to receive free
technical support during the
warranty period and be kept up-to-
date on the latest WD products,
Run drive diagnostics and status
checks,
Specify an inactive time interval to
turn off your drive,
Erase your drive so you can retrieve
the space and start over with a fresh
set of backups,
Change the option that checks for
software updates whenever you
reconnect your WD SmartWare
drive to your compute,
Enable the Backup and Retrieve
functions,
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THEN click . . . AND see . . .
Security "Password Protecting the
Drive" on page 25.
Security "Changing Your Password" on
page 28.
Security "Turning Off the Drive Lock
Feature" on page 29.
Registration "Registering the Drive" on
page 34.
Diagnostics "Checking Drive Health" on
page 39.
Sleep Timer "Setting the Drive Sleep Timer"
on page 34.
Drive Erase "Erasing the Drive" on
page 35.
Preferences "Setting the Preferences
(Available on either Option" on page 32.
the Software Settings
screen or the drive
management Drive
Settings screen)
Preferences "Enabling the Backup and
(Only available on the Retrieve Functions" on
drive management page 37.
Drive Settings
screen)
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