Western Digital WD5000D032 Quick Install Guide (pdf) - Page 5
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Installing the Drive Macintosh 1. Turn on your computer. 2. Connect the drive's power cord and FireWire 800, FireWire 400, or USB cable as shown. The drive mounts to the desktop and a My Book icon appears. 3. Double-click the My Book drive icon. 4. Double-click the Mac folder, select the language of your choice from the available folders, then double-click the WD Button Manager Software disk image that contains the installer. 5. Double-click the WD Button Manager package inside the Mac disk image to install the Button Manager and FireWire driver. 6. If you want to install the backup software now, double-click the EMC® Retrospect® Express icon located in the Mac folder and follow instructions as prompted. Power Adapter Mac OS X 10.2.8 Mac OS X 10.2.8 is not compatible with FAT32 partitions greater than 128 GB. To use My Book with this operating system, you must reformat the drive to Mac system format. See Knowledge Base Answer ID 287 at support.wdc.com for instructions. After reformatting My Book, you can restore the original utilities and EMC Retrospect Express software using the CD provided. Insert the CD into the drive, double-click the My Book CD icon when it appears on the desktop, then perform steps 4-6 above. Important: Reformatting My Book erases all its contents. If you have already saved files on My Book, be sure to back them up before reformatting it. - 4 -