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My Passport® Essential™ and Essential SE Ultra-Portable Hard Drives
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WD SmartWare Home Screen
The WD SmartWare Home screen has four tab-selected screen options:
• Home—Provides a Content Gauge with the capacity of each hard drive in or
connected to your computer (see Figure 7 on page 10)
• Backup—Manages existing backups or creates new backups of your important
data, including movies, music, documents, e-mail, and photos (see Figure 9 on
page 16)
• Retrieve—Brings back valuable data that has been lost or overwritten (see
Figure 12 on page 23)
• Settings—Manages security, diagnostics, power settings, and backup parameters
(see Figure 10 on page 19)
On the WD SmartWare Home screen, you can modify the primary drive being
categorized with the drop-down selection box under the name of your computer. After
you select a different drive, the WD SmartWare software identifies the categories of files
on that drive. Then click the:
• Backup tab to back up files from the selected drive to your My Passport drive
• Retrieve tab to retrieve backed up files from your My Passport drive to any
location on your computer
Drive Management Home Screen
The drive management Home screen is available after selecting Install Drive Settings,
installing the software, completing the initial drive settings, and opening the
WD SmartWare software. It has two tab-selected screen options:
• Home—Provides a Content Gauge showing the capacity and contents of your
My Passport drive (see Figure 8 on page 11)
• Settings—Manages the same security, diagnostics, and power settings as the
WD SmartWare Drive Settings screen and provides a Preferences button for
enabling the Backup and Retrieve functions (see Figure 16 on page 26)
Getting Started Without the WD SmartWare Software
If you do not install the WD SmartWare software, you can still use your My Passport as
an external hard drive. In this case, however, you will not be able to:
• Protect your data with automatic continuous backups (see “Backing Up Your
Computer Files” on page 15)
• Retrieve earlier versions of lost, or damaged files (see “Retrieving Backed Up
Files” on page 22)
• Secure your drive and all of the files on it with a password (see “Locking and
Unlocking the Drive” on page 26)
• Customize your software and drive settings for the best possible performance
(see “Managing and Customizing Your Drive” on page 31)
• Check the operational condition of your drive with built-in diagnostic features (see
“Checking Drive Health” on page 40)
Advanced Backup Capabilities
The advanced backup capabilities include:
• Selecting specific files to back up
• Changing the backup software settings:
- Choosing the number of backup versions to keep
- Pausing the backup until your computer is idle