Western Digital My Book Studio User Manual - Page 31

Safely Dismounting the Drive, Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image, CAUTION, To prevent data loss

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Safely Dismounting the Drive MY BOOK STUDIO USER MANUAL CAUTION! To prevent data loss, close all active windows and applications before shutting down or disconnecting the drive. Use the My Book icon to safely dismount the drive: 1. Right- or control-click the My Book icon on the desktop and select Eject "My Book Studio": You might hear the drive power down. 2. Wait for the drive icon to disappear from the desktop before disconnecting the drive. Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image In addition to deleting all of the data on your drive, erasing or reformatting it also removes the WD Security and WD Drive Utilities software and all of the support files, utilities, and user manual files. If you ever need to remove and reinstall the WD software on your computer, or move the drive to another computer and install the software there, you will need to restore the WD software and disk image on your drive. To do this, after you have erased or reformatted the drive, go to http://support.wdc.com and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7. MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DRIVE - 27

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MY BOOK STUDIO
USER MANUAL
MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DRIVE
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Safely Dismounting the Drive
Use the My Book icon to safely dismount the drive:
1.
Right- or control-click the My Book icon on the desktop and select
Eject “My Book
Studio
”:
You might hear the drive power down.
2.
Wait for the drive icon to disappear from the desktop before disconnecting the drive.
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
In addition to deleting all of the data on your drive, erasing or reformatting it also
removes the WD Security and WD Drive Utilities software and all of the support files,
utilities, and user manual files.
If you ever need to remove and reinstall the WD software on your computer, or move the
drive to another computer and install the software there, you will need to restore the WD
software and disk image on your drive. To do this, after you have erased or reformatted
the drive, go to
and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7.
CAUTION!
To prevent data loss, close all active windows and applications before
shutting down or disconnecting the drive.