Western Digital My Book Duo User Manual User Manual

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MY BOOK DUO
USER MANUAL

MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DEVICE

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Note:

Changing the device configuration also deletes the WD software

and all of the support files, utilities, and user manual files. You can
download these to restore the device to its original configuration
after the change. (See Knowledge Base answer ID 7 at

http://support.wd.com

for information about downloading and

restoring the WD software and disk image.)

1.

Open the WD Drive Utilities software by clicking either:

The WD Drive Utilities desktop shortcut icon if you created one when you

installed the application

Start > All Programs > Western Digital > WD Apps > WD Drive Utilities

See Figure 5 on page 10.

2.

If you have more than one supported device connected to your computer, click the

icon of the one that you want to configure.

3.

Click RAID Management > Configuration to display the Configuration dialog:

4.

Select the option for the mode that you want to change to:

Stripe - Maximum Capacity and Performance (RAID 0)

Mirror - Maximum Data Protection (RAID 1)

Individual Drives (JBOD)

Selecting the . . . option

Displays a volume dialog for specifying the . . .

Stripe or Mirror

Volume name for the new RAID array:

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