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MY PASSPORT PRO

USER MANUAL

MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING YOUR MY PASSPORT PRO DEVICE – 16

Erasing the Device Drives

Note: Erasing your device drives also deletes the WD software and all of the support

files, utilities, and user manual files. You can download these to restore your

device to its original configuration after erasing the drives. See Knowledge Base

answer ID 7 at http://support.wd.com for information about downloading and

restoring the WD software and disk image.

1. Click Go > Applications > WD Drive Utilities to display the WD Drive Utilities screen

(see Figure 4 on page 8).

2. If you have more than one supported storage device or drive connected to your

computer, select the one that you want to erase.

3. Click Drive Erase to display the Drive Erase dialog:

4. On the Drive Erase dialog:

a. For individual drives, select the check box for each drive that you want to erase:

 Erase Drive A

 Erase Drive B

b. If you want to change the name of a volume, type over the name in the Volume

Name box.

c. For individual drives, select the option to specify the file format for each volume:

 HFS+J

 ExFAT

Note that the exFAT (extended File Allocation Table) format is not RAID

configurable.

CAUTION! Erasing a drive permanently deletes all of the data on the drive. Always

back up the data on the drive before erasing it.

For RAID Configurations

For Individual Drives

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