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Locking and Unlocking Your Drive, Password Protecting Your Drive

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MY PASSPORT ELITE USER MANUAL 15 Locking and Unlocking Your Drive This chapter includes the following topics: Password Protecting Your Drive Unlocking Your Drive Turning Off the Drive Lock Feature Changing Your Password Password Protecting Your Drive You should password protect your drive if you are worried that someone else will gain access to your drive and you do not want them to be able to access your content on the drive. CAUTION! The WD SmartWare software uses your password to electronically lock and unlock your drive. If you forget your password, you will not be able to access the data that is on your drive or write new data to it. You will have to erase the drive before you can use it again. You can reach the Security pages for password management during the initial getting started process or from the Settings tab and the Drive Settings screen within the WD SmartWare application. After you are on the password page, you can: • Create a password • Change a password • Eliminate the need for a password To create a password and keep others from accessing the files on your drive, as an example from the Settings tab: 1. Click the Settings tab to display the Settings screen (see Figure 10 on page 21). 2. Click Set Up Drive to display the Drive Settings screen (see Figure 16 on page 29). LOCKING AND UNLOCKING YOUR DRIVE - 28

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MY PASSPORT ELITE
USER MANUAL
LOCKING AND UNLOCKING YOUR DRIVE – 28
Locking and Unlocking Your Drive
5
This chapter includes the following topics:
Password Protecting Your Drive
Unlocking Your Drive
Turning Off the Drive Lock Feature
Changing Your Password
Password Protecting Your Drive
You should password protect your drive if you are worried that someone else will gain
access to your drive and you do not want them to be able to access your content on the
drive.
You can reach the Security pages for password management during the initial getting
started process or from the
Settings
tab and the Drive Settings screen within the
WD SmartWare application. After you are on the password page, you can:
•
Create a password
•
Change a password
•
Eliminate the need for a password
To
create a password and keep others from accessing the files on your drive, as an
example from the Settings tab:
1.
Click the
Settings
tab to display the Settings screen (see Figure 10 on page 21).
2.
Click
Set Up Drive
to display the Drive Settings screen (see Figure 16 on page 29).
CAUTION!
The WD SmartWare software uses your password to electronically
lock and unlock your drive. If you forget your password, you will not be able to
access the data that is on your drive or write new data to it. You will have to erase
the drive before you can use it again.