Western Digital My Book Essential manuals

Owner’s manuals and user’s guides for External hard drives Western Digital My Book Essential.
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Table of contents

Essential

1

WD Service and Support

2

Table of Contents

3

USER MANUALL

4

TABLE OF CONTENTS – iv

4

About Your WD Drive

6

Kit Contents

7

Optional Accessories

7

Disk Drive Format

8

Physical Description

8

Power Button

9

Registering Your Drive

10

Handling Precautions

10

US/JA/TW

11

Windows XP Proceed to step 8

12

MY BOOK ESSENTIAL

13

USER MANUAL

13

WD SmartWare Overview

18

WD SmartWare Home Screen

18

Figure 10. Backup Screen

24

Backing It All Up

25

Advanced Backup Capabilities

26

Figure 11. Settings Screen

27

Retrieving Backed Up Files

30

Figure 13. Retrieve Screen

31

Retrieving a Folder

33

Unlocking Your Drive

35

Changing Your Password

38

Using the WD SmartWare Icon

39

Checking Drive Status

39

Monitoring Icon Alerts

40

Using the Drive Power Button

40

Setting the Drive Sleep Timer

44

Erasing Your Drive

45

1. Either:

46

Uninstalling on Windows XP

48

Checking Drive Health

49

• Quick SMART Status

50

• Quick Drive Test

50

• Complete Drive Test

50

Using the Drive with a Mac

51

The WD SmartWare Home Screen

57

Safely Dismounting the Drive

60

Using the My Book Icon

61

Unlocking the Drive

62

Troubleshooting

66

TROUBLESHOOTING – 62

67

Installing an SES Driver

68

INSTALLING AN SES DRIVER – 64

69

INSTALLING AN SES DRIVER – 65

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INSTALLING AN SES DRIVER – 66

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INSTALLING AN SES DRIVER – 67

72

INSTALLING AN SES DRIVER – 68

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INSTALLING AN SES DRIVER – 69

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INSTALLING AN SES DRIVER – 70

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5. Click Next

76

Regulatory Compliance

77

Warranty Information

78

Limited Warranty

79

INDEX – 75

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INDEX – 76

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Western Digital

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20511 Lake Forest Drive

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