Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Essential Edition Western Digital
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External Desktop My Book Essential Edition User Manual ™ ®.
MY BOOK ESSENT IAL EDITION USER MANUAL GETTING STARTED – 1 Getting Started Thank you for purchasing this WD product. My Book ® Essential Edition ™ is a small, elegant, and easy-to-use USB external hard drive. Just pl ug it in and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies.
MY BOOK ESSENT IAL EDITION USER MANUAL GETTING STARTED – 2 Registering Y our WD Product Y our WD product includes 30 days of free techni cal support during the applicable warranty period for your product. The 30-day period commences on the date of your first telephone contact with WD technical support .
MY BOOK ESSENT IAL EDITION USER MANUAL ABOUT Y OUR WD DRIVE – 3 About Y our WD Drive Drive Format This WD device is preformatte d as a single F A T32 partition for compatibilit y with all updated Windows and Macintosh operatin g systems. The F A T32 file system has a maximum individual fi le size of 4 GB.
MY BOOK ESSENT IAL EDITION USER MANUAL ABOUT Y OUR WD DRIVE – 4 Software In addition to the drivers and utilities, this WD product is shipped with free trial software which can be installe d from the WD installer scr een that displays at the end of the hardware installation.
MY BOOK ESSENT IAL EDITION USER MANUAL CONNECTING THE DEV ICE – 5 Connecting the Device Windows 1. T urn on your computer. 2. Connect the drive’s power co rd and USB cable as shown. 3. Drive utilities are installed automatically . If a security aler t is displayed during this installation, click Accept or Continue .
MY BOOK ESSENT IAL EDITION USER MANUAL T URNING OFF /DISCONNECTING THE DEVICE – 6 T urning Off/Disconnecting the Device SmartPower™ My Book automatically powers o ff and on with the computer.
MY BOOK ESSENT IAL EDITION USER MANUAL T ROUBLESHOOTING – 7 T roubleshooting If you have problems when installing or using this product, refer to this troubleshooting sect ion or visit our support W eb site at support.wdc.com and search our knowledge base for more help.
MY BOOK ESSENT IAL EDITION USER MANUAL APPENDIX – 8 Appendix Regulatory Compliance FCC Class B Information This device has been tested and foun d to comply with the limits of a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules .
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