Western Digital My Passport Essential SE User Manual - Manual (Page 41)

MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE
USER MANUAL
MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING YOUR DRIVE – 36
2. In the Turn off Drive box, select the inactivity time interval at which you want to turn
off the drive.
3. Click Set Timer to save and implement your sleep timer setting.
Erasing the Drive
Note: Erasing your drive also deletes the WD SmartWare software and all of the
support files, utilities, online help and user manual files. You can download
these to restore your My Passport to its original configuration after erasing
the drive.
The WD SmartWare software provides two ways to erase your drive, depending on whether your
My Passport drive is locked or not:
Using the Drive Settings Drive Erase Function. To erase your My Passport when the
drive is not locked:
1. On the Drive Settings screen (see Figure 16 on page 26), click Drive Erase to display
the Erase Drive dialog:
2. Read the warning about the loss of data if you erase your drive.
3. Click the I understand check box to signify that you accept the risk.
4. Click Drive Erase to erase your drive.
After the drive erase operation completes, go to support.wdc.com and see Knowledge
Base Answer ID #5419 for information about downloading and restoring the
WD SmartWare software and disk image on your My Passport drive.
Note: Erasing your drive also removes your password. If you used a password to
protect your drive, you will need to do it again after restoring the
WD SmartWare software and disk image . (See “Password Protecting
the Drive” on page 26.)
CAUTION! Erasing your drive permanently deletes all of the data on your drive.
Always make sure that you no longer need any of the data on your drive before
erasing the drive.
IF your drive is . . . AND you . . . THEN see . . .
Not locked, Want to erase the drive, “Using the Drive Settings Drive
Erase Function” in the following
section.
Locked, Have forgotten or lost your
password and must erase the
drive, “Using the Drive Unlock Utility”
on page 37.