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MY PASSPORT FOR MAC

USER MANUAL

MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DRIVE – 22

Erasing the Drive

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

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

your My Passport to its original configuration after erasing the drive.

WD Drive Utilities provides two ways to erase your drive, depending on whether your

My Passport drive is locked or not:

Using the Drive Erase Function

To erase your My Passport when the drive is not locked:

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

(see Figure 4 on page 19).

2. If you have more than one supported My Passport 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. Read the warning about the loss of data if you erase your drive.

b. Click the I understand check box to signify that you accept the risk.

c. Click Erase Drive.

After the drive erase operation completes, go to http://support.wdc.com and see

Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information about downloading and restoring the WD

software and disk image on your My Passport drive.

Note: Erasing your drive also removes your password. If you used a password to

protect your drive, you will need to re-create it after restoring the

software and disk image

. (See “Password Protecting the Drive” on

page 13.)

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

Always make sure that you no longer need any of the data on your drive before

erasing it.

IF your drive is . . . AND you . . . THEN see . . .

Not locked, Want to erase the drive, “Using the Drive Erase Function”

in the next section.

Locked, Have forgotten or lost your

password and must erase the

drive,

“Using the WD Drive Unlock

Utility” on page 23.

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