Western Digital My Book Live Duo User Manual - Manual (Page 129)

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MY BOOK LIVE DUO
USER MANUAL
CONNECTING A USB HARD DRIVE – 123
Connecting a USB Hard Drive
Connecting a USB Hard Drive Overview
Connecting A USB Drive
Mapping A USB Drive (Windows Only)
Creating a Shortcut to the USB Drive (Windows only)
Connecting a USB Hard Drive Overview
When you attach a USB drive to the My Book Live Duo device, you turn it into a network
drive. Now the USB drive has the following capabilities:
 When you connect an external USB drive such as a WD Passport, a memory stick,
or a camera to the My Book Live Duo device, you can access it with Windows
Explorer or Mac Finder.
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The USB drive can serve as a target for backups in WD SmartWare, Windows, or
Time Machine.
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The option to map the drive as a user share drive .
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If a WD external drive has been locked, when it is attached to the My Book Live Duo
device, it maintains that security and can be unlocked or relocked using the
Dashboard.
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You can attach a powered USB hub to the external USB port and attach up to seven
USB devices to the hub.
Connecting A USB Drive
Connect a USB hard drive to the USB port on the rear of your My Book Live Duo device for
additional storage. The USB drive appears as a share on the My Book Live Duo dashboard.
(See“Managing Shares” on page 81.)
The My Book Live Duo device supports the following formats for externally attached USB
drives:
 FAT32
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NTFS (read and write capability)
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HFS+J
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Linux Ext2, Ext3/Ext4
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XFS