Setting The Drive Sleep Timer; Using The Wd Quick View Icon - Western Digital My Passport Ultra User Manual

If you ever need to remove and reinstall the WD software on your computer, or move the
drive to another computer and install the software there, you will need to restore the WD
software and disk image on your drive. To do this, after you have erased or reformatted
the drive, go to http://support.wd.com

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.
1.
Open the WD Drive Utilities software by clicking either:
The WD Drive Utilities desktop shortcut icon
Start > All Programs > Western Digital > WD Apps > WD Drive Utilities
See Figure 6 on page 10.
2. If you have more than one supported device connected to your computer, select the
one that you want to set.
3. Click Sleep Timer to display the Sleep Timer dialog:
4. On the Sleep Timer dialog:
a. Verify or click the Sleep Timer on/off toggle button to the ON position.
b. In the Select Time box, select the inactivity period for turning off the drive.

Using the WD Quick View Icon

After you have installed the WD software, the WD Quick View icon displays in the system
tray portion of the Windows taskbar:
WD Quick View Icon
You can use the icon to:
Check the status of supported WD drives
Monitor icon alerts
Safely disconnect supported WD drives
The following sections describe how to use the icon and other ways to do these things.
and see Knowledge Base Answer ID 7.
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