Western Digital My Book/My Book Essential (USB 3.0) User Manual - Manual (Page 43)

MY BOOK
USER MANUAL
RETRIEVING BACKED UP FILES – 38
IF you have . . . THEN the WD SmartWare software displays the . . .
Created a single backup on
the selected
My Book drive
from your computer,
Select a destination for retrieved files dialog:
Proceed to step 3 on page 39.
Created multiple backup
volumes on the selected
My Book drive from either:
• Different internal hard
drives or hard drive
portions on your computer
• Different computers
Select a volume to retrieve from dialog with the available
volumes listed in the Backed Up Volumes selection box:
In this case:
a. In the Backed Up Volumes selection box, select the
volume that you want to retrieve files from.
b. Click Next to display the Select a destination for
retrieved files dialog.
c. Proceed to step 3 on page 39.
Not run a backup on the
selected
My Book drive,
The Select a volume to retrieve from dialog with nothing listed
in the Backed Up Volumes selection box:
You cannot retrieve files from a drive that does not have a
backup volume. Click the Home tab and return to step 1-b on
page 37 to select the My Book drive that has the files you
want to retrieve.