Installing the wd smartware software – Western Digital My Passport Essential SE User Manual User Manual

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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL AND ESSENTIAL SE

USER MANUAL

USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC

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6.

Type the password that you normally use to access the computer in the Password

box and click OK:

7.

As prompted, when the installation completes, click Yes to restart the computer:

8.

After the computer restarts, the My Passport icon on the desktop looks like this,

where “MY PASSPORT” is the name you assigned to the volume when you
reformatted the drive for use with the Mac computer:

Your My Passport drive is now ready to use as an enhanced-performance external
storage device.

Installing the WD SmartWare Software

To install the WD SmartWare software:

1.

Double-click the My Passport icon and then double-click the WD SmartWare icon on
the screen that displays:

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