About the WD SmartWare drive management software
The drive management version of the WD SmartWare™ software provides only the drive settings functions for your My Book or My Passport drive. The backup and retrieve functions are inhibited, but a preferences option is available for enabling them later.
The Home tab display provides an icon and content gauge for each My Book or My Passport drive connected to your computer.
Use the Home tab display to:
If you have more than one My Book or My Passport drive connected to your computer, left-click the icon of the one that you want to set up. The WD SmartWare software highlights the selected drive with a light-blue shadow background.
Right-click the My Book or My Passport drive icon and select Properties to display the Drive Properties dialog for the drive.
For a network-attached My Book Live drive, right-click the My Book Live icon and select:
Right-click the My Book or My Passport drive icon and select Open to see the drive listing in Windows Explorer.
Right-click the My Book or My Passport drive icon and select Safely remove to prepare your system for safely disconnecting the drive.
The content gauges under the icon and name of your your My Book or My Passport drives show the total total capacity, amount of data, and available space, in bytes for each drive. The amount of data on the drive is shown in an Additional Files category.
Note: The small amount of data shown in the Additional Files category right after installing the drive management version of the WD SmartWare software—before you copy any files to the drive—represents the system files and hidden files that your operating system put there when you installed the drive.