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CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED 3. Follow the screen instructions and tool tips. IF you want to . . . Return to the How to Connect screen to make sure you have properly connected your drive, View the Troubleshooting Help topic, THEN click the . . . Back button More Help button Try to discover the drive again, Try Again button Note: If you still cannot connect your drive, search for Answer ID 5679 in the WD Knowledge Base at http://support.wdc.com. Getting Started Without the CD (Windows 7/Vista & Mac) If you do not use the product CD for getting started and installing WD SmartWare (Windows only), you can still: „ Use your My Book Live as an external hard drive, dragging and dropping files to and from it. „ Configure the drive using the My Book Live dashboard. (See "Using the My Book Live Dashboard" on page 58.) „ Save and restore files using Windows Backup (see "Using Windows Vista/ Windows 7" on page 20) or Apple Time Machine (see "Using Apple Time Machine" on page 43). Using Windows Vista/Windows 7 Opening the Public Folder As an alternative to using the product CD, open the drive as follows: 1. Physically connect the drive to your network (see page 9). 2. Click > Computer > Network > MYBOOKLIVE, and locate the drive's Public folder. MY BOOK LIVE 20 USER MANUAL

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CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED
20
MY BOOK LIVE
USER MANUAL
3.
Follow the screen instructions and tool tips.
Note:
If you still cannot connect your drive, search for Answer ID 5679 in the WD
Knowledge Base at
.
Getting Started Without the CD (Windows 7/Vista & Mac)
If you do not use the product CD for getting started and installing WD SmartWare
(Windows only), you can still:
Use your My Book Live as an external hard drive, dragging and dropping files
to and from it.
Configure the drive using the My Book Live dashboard. (See “Using the My
Book Live Dashboard” on page 58.)
Save and restore files using Windows Backup (see “Using Windows Vista/
Windows 7” on page 20) or Apple Time Machine (see “Using Apple Time
Machine” on page 43).
Using Windows Vista/Windows 7
Opening the Public Folder
As an alternative to using the product CD, open the drive as follows:
1.
Physically connect the drive to your network (see page 9).
2.
Click
> Computer > Network > MYBOOKLIVE
, and locate the drive’s
Public folder.
IF you want to . . .
THEN click the . . .
Return to the How to Connect screen to make sure
you have properly connected your drive,
Back
button
View the Troubleshooting Help topic,
More Help
button
Try to discover the drive again,
Try Again
button