Western Digital My Book / My Book Essential User Manual 1 - Page 24

MY BOOK USER MANUAL The best time to run the drive diagnostics and status checks is on a regular basis, before you encounter any problems with your drive. And, because they are so fast, running the drive status check and the quick drive test provides a high level of assurance with minimal inconvenience. Then, run all three whenever you encounter disk error conditions when writing or accessing files. 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 on page 9. 2. If you have more than one supported device connected to your computer, select the one that you want to check. 3. On the Diagnose dialog, click the button for the test that you want to run:  Run Drive Status Check  Run Quick Drive Test  Run Complete Drive Test Erasing the Drive 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. 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 to its original configuration after erasing 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 on page 9. 2. If you have more than one supported device connected to your computer, select the one that you want to erase. 3. On the WD Drive Utilities screen, click Drive Erase to display the drive erase dialog: 4. On the drive erase dialog: a. If you want to change the volume name, type over the name in the Volume Name box. MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DRIVE - 21