Customizing your drive settings – Western Digital My Passport Essential SE User Manual User Manual
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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE
USER MANUAL
MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING YOUR DRIVE
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Customizing Your Drive Settings
The WD SmartWare software makes it easy for you to quickly customize the settings of
your drive for the best possible performance:
• Security—Create, modify, and disable passwords that keep others from
accessing the files on your drive.
• Registration—Register your drive to receive free technical support during the
warranty period and find out about software updates, product enhancements, and
price discount opportunities.
• Diagnostics—Run diagnostics and status checks to make sure your drive is
working properly.
• Sleep Timer—Turn your drive off during periods of extended inactivity to conserve
power and extend the life of the drive.
• Drive Erase—Erase all of the contents on the drive, including your password if you
have one.
• Preferences—Check for software updates and, if you selected Install Drive
Settings at the What would you like to do? prompt, enable the Backup and
Retrieve functions.
To customize your drive settings for the best possible performance, on either the
WD SmartWare Drive Settings screen or the drive management Drive Settings screen
(Figure 16 on page 26)
:
IF you want to . . .
THEN click . . .
AND see . . .
Use a password to keep others
from accessing the files on your
drive,
Security
“Password Protecting the
Drive” on page 26.
Change your password,
Security
“Changing Your Password” on
page 29.
Remove password protection from
your drive,
Security
“Turning Off the Drive Lock
Feature” on page 30.
Register your drive to receive free
technical support during the
warranty period and be kept up-to-
date on the latest WD products,
Registration
“Registering the Drive” on
page 35.
Run drive diagnostics and status
checks,
Diagnostics
“Checking Drive Health” on
page 40.
Specify an inactive time interval to
turn off your drive,
Sleep Timer
“Setting the Drive Sleep Timer”
on page 35.
Erase your drive so you can retrieve
the space and start over with a fresh
set of backups,
Drive Erase
“Erasing the Drive” on
page 36.
Change the option that checks for
software updates
whenever you
reconnect your WD SmartWare
drive to your compute,
Preferences
(Available on either
the Software Settings
screen or the drive
management Drive
Settings screen)
“Setting the Preferences
Option” on page 33.
Enable the Backup and Retrieve
functions,
Preferences
(Only available on the
drive management
Drive Settings
screen)