Using the drive with a mac, Reformatting the drive, Restoring the wd smartware software and disk image – Western Digital My Book Essential User Manual User Manual

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MY BOOK ESSENTIAL

USER MANUAL

USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC

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Using the Drive with a Mac

The My Book drive is preformatted as a single NTFS partition for compatibility with all
updated Windows operating systems. To use the drive with Mac OS X Leopard or Snow
Leopard operating systems, and to use Time Machine, if you want, you must first:

• Reformat the drive to a single HFS+J partition

• Restore the WD SmartWare software and disk image

This chapter includes the following topics:

Reformatting the Drive
Restoring the WD SmartWare Software and Disk Image
Connecting the Drive and Getting Started
Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO
Installing the WD SmartWare Software
The WD SmartWare Home Screen
Using the WD SmartWare Icon
Opening the WD SmartWare Software
Checking Drive Status
Safely Dismounting the Drive
Unlocking the Drive
Uninstalling WD SmartWare Software

Reformatting the Drive

Go to

support.wdc.com

and refer to the appropriate Knowledge Base Answer ID for

information about reformatting a Windows drive:

• 287 or 3323 for Mac OS X

• 1364 for FAT32

See “Troubleshooting” on page 57 for more information about reformatting a drive.

Restoring the WD SmartWare Software and Disk Image

After you have reformatted your My Book drive for use on Mac computers, go to

support.wdc.com

and see Knowledge Base Answer ID #5419 for information about

downloading and restoring the Mac version of the WD SmartWare software and disk
image on the drive.

Connecting the Drive and Getting Started

After you have reformatted your My Book drive for use on a Mac computer and
downloaded and restored the Mac version of the WD SmartWare software and disk
image:

1.

Turn on your Mac computer.

2.

Connect the My Book drive to your computer as shown in Figure 4 on page 6.

CAUTION!

Reformatting the drive erases all its contents. If you have already

saved files on the drive, be sure to back them up before reformatting it.

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