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Unlocking Your Drive with the WD SmartWare Software, Drive is locked, Password, Unlock

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MY BOOK ELITE USER MANUAL Unlocking Your Drive with the WD SmartWare Software Whenever you shut down and restart your computer, or disconnect and reconnect the drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare software displays a Drive is locked message in place of the content gauge for your My Book drive: To unlock your drive using the WD SmartWare software: 1. As prompted, click the My Book image above the Drive is locked message to open the WD SmartWare drive unlock screen: 2. Type your password in the Password box. 3. Click Unlock to unlock your drive and enable the WD SmartWare software. Unlocking Your Drive Without the WD SmartWare Software Whenever you connect your password-protected drive to a computer that does not have the WD SmartWare software installed, you can still access the virtual CD partition on your drive, and install the WD SmartWare software as usual. You will not be able to access the data portion of your drive until you unlock it. LOCKING AND UNLOCKING YOUR DRIVE - 33

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MY BOOK ELITE
USER MANUAL
LOCKING AND UNLOCKING YOUR DRIVE
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Unlocking Your Drive with the WD SmartWare Software
Whenever you shut down and restart your computer, or disconnect and reconnect the
drive to your computer, the WD SmartWare software displays a
Drive is locked
message in place of the content gauge for your My Book drive:
To unlock your drive using the WD SmartWare software:
1.
As prompted, click the My Book image above the
Drive is locked
message to open
the WD SmartWare drive unlock screen:
2.
Type your password in the
Password
box.
3.
Click
Unlock
to unlock your drive and enable the WD SmartWare software.
Unlocking Your Drive Without the WD SmartWare Software
Whenever you connect your password-protected drive to a computer that does not have
the WD SmartWare software installed, you can still access the virtual CD partition on
your drive, and install the WD SmartWare software as usual. You will not be able to
access the data portion of your drive until you unlock it.