Step 7 o – Western Digital My Passport Essential SE User Manual User Manual

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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE

USER MANUAL

CONNECTING THE DRIVE AND GETTING STARTED

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and skipping the backup.

7.

After password protecting or registering your drive, click Finish to close the drive

management initial Drive Settings screen.

This completes the getting started procedure after selecting Install Drive Settings.

In this case:

Opening the WD SmartWare software displays the drive management Home

screen (see Figure 8 on page 11) with the Settings tab for performing all drive
management functions (see “Customizing Your Drive Settings” on page 34).

Clicking the Settings tab displays the drive management Drive Settings screen

with a Preferences button that you can use to enable the WD SmartWare
Backup and Retrieve functions (see Figure 16 on page 26 and “Enabling the
Backup and Retrieve Functions” on page 38)

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Figure 5. Initial Backup Screen

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