About your wd drive, Drive format, Led indicators – Western Digital My Book Studio Edition User Manual User Manual

Page 4: Power/activity led, Capacity gauge, Usb and firewire mode, Esata mode

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MY BOOK STUDIO EDITION

USER MANUAL

ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE – 3

About Your WD Drive

Drive Format

This WD device is preformatted to HFS+ (Journaled) for compatibility with Macintosh
operating systems. To reformat the device to Windows, visit support.wdc.com and
search our knowledge base for answer ID# 1550.

LED Indicators

The power/activity LED is located on the center, front panel of the device. The LED
indicators function as follows.

Power/Activity LED

Capacity Gauge

USB and FireWire Mode

The Capacity Gauge is enabled only through installation of WD Drive Manager, which
must be installed on each system to which My Book is connected. The Capacity
Gauge is updated automatically upon drive usage.

eSATA Mode

Capacity Gauge is not available in eSATA mode.

Important: Reformatting My Book erases all its contents including the preloaded
software. If you have already saved files on My Book, be sure to back them up before
reformatting.

Appearance

Description

Steady

Power-on state or power-save mode

Fast flashing (for approx. 3 seconds)

Transitioning to system standby

Slow flashing (every 5 seconds)

System standby

Alternating top and bottom

Drive in use

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