Unlocking Your Drive With The Wd Smartware Software - Western Digital WDBABT0010HBK - My Book AV DVR Expander User Manual

Unlocking Your Drive with the WD SmartWare Software

The procedure for unlocking your drive with the WD SmartWare software can be
automatic or manual, depending on whether the Please provide your password prompt
appears or not.
Automatically. Whenever you shut down and restart your computer, or disconnect and
reconnect the drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare software displays the Please
provide your password prompt:
To unlock your drive:
1.
Type your password in the Password box.
2. Click Unlock to unlock your drive and enable the WD SmartWare software.
Manually. If your computer goes into sleep mode, an unlock screen might not display
when you reactivate it. To unlock the drive, you can use either the:
• WD SmartWare VCD as described in "Unlocking Your Drive Without the
WD SmartWare Software" on page 33
• WD SmartWare icon
To unlock the drive manually, using the WD SmartWare icon:
1.
Click the WD SmartWare icon in the bar at the top-right corner of the screen.
2. Select the My Book drive and then click Unlock Drive:
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