Western Digital My Book Duo User Manual - Page 56
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MY BOOK DUO USER MANUAL This status indication . . . Unknown Signifies that. . . The RAID configuration is unknown. Click Configure to create a new RAID disk array or reinstall the original drives. Drive 1 and Drive 2 Status where: This status indication . . . Drive Not Supported Empty Failed ID Mismatch Insufficient Capacity Missing New Drive Online Rebuilding Signifies that . . . The drive model is not supported. Replace the drive with a supported WD drive. There is no drive installed, but none was expected. The drive has failed. Replace this drive immediately. The drive metadata information does not match its serial number. The drive you installed has insufficient capacity to be part of the mirrored RAID disk array. You could use it to create a new RAID disk array of smaller capacity by performing a new RAID configuration, but that would erase all of your data. The expected drive is not installed. The installed drive has not been configured. Click Configuration and reconfigure the RAID disk array. The drive is healthy and part of the RAID disk array. The drive is the target disk of the rebuild operation and that rebuild operation is still in progress. Changing the Device Configuration CAUTION! Changing the device configuration reformats both drives, which erases all of the data on them. If you have been using the device in one mode and want to switch to a different mode, back up your files to another storage device before changing the configuration. Note: Changing the device configuration also deletes the WD software and all of the support files, utilities, and user manual files. You can download these to restore the device to its original configuration after the change. (See Knowledge Base answer ID 7 at http:// support.wd.com for information about downloading and restoring the WD software and disk image.) 1. Open the WD Drive Utilities software by clicking either: The WD Drive Utilities desktop shortcut icon if you created one when you installed the application Start > All Programs > Western Digital > WD Apps > WD Drive Utilities See Figure 5 on page 10. 2. If you have more than one supported device connected to your computer, click the icon of the one that you want to configure. MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DEVICE - 51