Erasing The Drive; Enabling The Backup And Retrieve Functions - Western Digital My Book User Manual

Erasing the 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.
Note: Erasing your drive also deletes the WD SmartWare software and all of the
support files, utilities, online help and user manual files. You can download
these to restore your My Book to its original configuration after erasing the
drive.
1.
Click the Settings tab to display either the WD SmartWare Settings tab display or the
drive management Drive Settings screen (see Figure 11 on page 23).
2. If you opened the WD SmartWare Settings tab display, click Set Up Drive to display
the WD SmartWare Drive Settings screen.
3. On the Drive Settings screen, click Drive Erase to display the Erase Drive dialog:
4. On the Erase Drive dialog:
a. Read the warning about the loss of data if you erase your drive.
b. Select the I understand check box to signify that you accept the risk.
c. Click Drive Erase.
After the drive erase operation completes, see "Restoring the WD SmartWare Software
and Disk Image" on page 42.

Enabling 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 and now want to enable the Backup and Retrieve
functions:
1.
On the drive management Drive Settings screen (see Figure 11 on page 23), click
Preferences to display the Set Preferences dialog:
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