Restoring the wd software and disk image, Setting the drive sleep timer – Western Digital My Passport Ultra Metal User Manual User Manual

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MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION

USER MANUAL

MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DRIVE

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4.

Click Registration to display the Registration dialog:

5.

On the Registration dialog:

a. Type your first name in the First name box.

b. Type your last name in the Last name box.

c. Type your email address in the E-mail address box.

d. Select your language in the Preferred language box.

e. Select or clear the Yes, I want to receive communication... check box to

specify whether you want to receive notifications about software updates,
product enhancements, and price discount opportunities.

f.

Click Register Drive.

Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image

In addition to deleting all of the data on your drive, erasing or reformatting the drive also
removes the WD software and all of the support files, utilities, online help and user
manual files.

If you ever need to remove and reinstall the WD software on your computer, or move the
drive to another computer and install the software there, you will need to restore the WD
software and disk image on your drive. To do this, after you have erased or reformatted
the drive, go to

http://support.wd.com

and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7.

Setting the Drive Sleep Timer

The drive sleep timer turns off the power to your drive after a certain period of inactivity
to conserve power and minimize long-term wear on the drive.

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 4 on page 8.

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