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MY BOOK ELITE

USER MANUAL

LOCKING AND UNLOCKING YOUR DRIVE – 29

Locking and Unlocking Your Drive

This chapter includes the following topics:

Password Protecting Your Drive

Unlocking Your Drive

Turning Off the Drive Lock Feature

Changing Your Password

Password Protecting Your Drive

You should password protect your drive if you are worried that someone else will gain

access to your drive and you do not want them to be able to access your content on the

drive.

You can reach the Security pages for password management during the initial getting

started process or from the Settings tab and the Drive Settings screen within the

WD SmartWare application. Once you are on the password page, you can:

• Create a password

• Change a password

• Eliminate the need for a password

To create a password and keep others from accessing the files on your drive, as an

example from the Settings tab:

1. Click the Settings tab to display the Settings screen (see Figure 11 on page 22).

2. Click Set Up Drive to display the Drive Settings screen (see Figure 17 on page 30.

CAUTION! The WD SmartWare software uses your password to electronically

lock and unlock your drive. If you forget your password, you will not be able to

access the data that is on your drive or write new data to it. You will have to erase

the drive before you can use it again.

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