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MY BOOK LIVE DUO USER MANUAL • If the drive is not found, the Troubleshooting screen appears, offering more information about connecting the My Book Live Duo: 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 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 Duo as an external hard drive, dragging and dropping files to and from it. • Configure the drive using the My Book Live Duo dashboard. (See "Using the My Book Live Duo Dashboard" on page 55.) • Save and restore files using Windows Backup (see "Using Windows Vista/Windows 7" on page 19) or Apple Time Machine (see "Using Apple Time Machine" on page 41). 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 10). 2. Click > Computer > Network > My Book Live Duo, and locate the drive's Public folder. CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED - 19

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MY BOOK LIVE DUO
USER MANUAL
CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED – 19
•
If the drive is not found, the Troubleshooting screen appears, offering more
information about connecting the My Book Live Duo:
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 Duo as an external hard drive, dragging and dropping files to
and from it.
•
Configure the drive using the My Book Live Duo dashboard. (See “Using the My Book
Live Duo Dashboard” on page 55.)
•
Save and restore files using Windows Backup (see “Using Windows Vista/Windows
7” on page 19) or Apple Time Machine (see “Using Apple Time Machine” on page 41).
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 10).
2.
Click
> Computer > Network > My Book Live Duo
, 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
Help topic,
More Help
button
Try to discover the drive again,
Try Again
button