Using The Drive With Windows; Reformatting The Drive; Restoring The Wd Smartware Software And Disk Image; Connecting The Drive - Western Digital My Book Studio User Manual

Using the Drive with Windows

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The My Book drive is formatted as a single HFS+J partition for compatibility with Mac
OS X operating systems. To use the drive with Windows operating systems, you must
first:
• Reformat the drive to a single NTFS partition
• Restore the WD SmartWare software and disk image
This chapter includes the following topics:

Reformatting the Drive

Restoring the WD SmartWare Software and Disk Image

Connecting the Drive

Getting Started with the WD SmartWare Software
Using the WD SmartWare Icon
Enabling the Backup and Retrieve Functions
Unlocking the Drive
Uninstalling the WD SmartWare Software
Getting Started Without the WD SmartWare Software
Reformatting the Drive
CAUTION! Reformatting the drive erases all its contents. If you have already
saved files on the drive, be sure to back them up before reformatting it.
Go to http://support.wdc.com
information about reformatting a Mac drive.
Also, see "Troubleshooting" on page 55 for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD SmartWare Software and Disk Image
After you have reformatted your My Book drive for use on Windows computers, go to
http://support.wdc.com
about downloading and restoring the Windows version of the WD SmartWare software
and disk image.
Connecting the Drive
After you have reformatted your My Book drive for use on a Windows computer and
downloaded and restored the Windows version of the WD SmartWare software and disk
image:
1.
Turn on your Windows computer.
2. Connect the My Book drive to your computer as shown in Figure 4 on page 6.
and refer to the Knowledge Base Answer ID 3865 for
and see Knowledge Base Answer ID #5419 for information
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