Setting The Drive Sleep Timer; Erasing Your Drive - Western Digital WDBABT0010HBK - My Book AV DVR Expander User Manual

4. Type your last name in the Last name box.
5. Type your e-mail address in the E-mail address box.
6. Select your language in the Preferred language box.
7. Select or clear the Yes, I want to receive communication... check box to specify
whether or not you want to receive e-mail notifications about software updates,
product enhancements, and price discount opportunities.
8. Click Register Drive to register your drive.

Setting the Drive Sleep Timer

The drive sleep timer turns off the power to your drive after a certain period of inactivity
to conserve power and minimize long-term wear on the drive.
To specify the inactivity period for the sleep timer:
1.
On the Drive Settings screen (see Figure 15 on page 31), click Sleep Timer to display
the Set Sleep Timer dialog:
2. In the Sleep Timer box, select the inactivity time interval at which you want to turn
off the drive.
3. Click Set Timer to save and implement your sleep timer selection.

Erasing Your Drive

CAUTION! Erasing your drive permanently deletes all of the data on your drive.
Always make sure that you no longer need any of the data on your drive before
erasing the drive.
The
WD SmartWare software provides two ways to erase your drive, depending on whether your
My Book drive is locked or not:
IF your drive is . . .
Not locked,
Locked,
AND you . . .
Want to erase the drive,
Have forgotten or lost your
password and must erase the
drive,
THEN see . . .
"Using the Drive Settings Drive
Erase Function" in the following
section.
"Using the Drive Unlock Utility"
on page 44.
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