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Everything off now, and i will repartition and reformat the 1tb drive for continued. Also, when plugged in at boot up, it stopsfreezes computer from completing. Tips for getting started with the wd my book backup drive posted on 201405 by michael milette november 16, 2016 there isnt a lot of documentation that comes in the box with the wd my book drive. Apr 16, 2010 my book world edition 1 my dad installed this on our network and i tried to access it. Thank you for helping us maintain cnets great community. Im planning to replace the hard drives on my wd my book world edition ii. Recover data from my book world edition a friend of mine has had a western digital my world book network attached 500gb storage device.
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Once system operational and plugged in, it appears in device manager. Unfortunately his house was the recipient of a electrical storm that blew out most of the equipment on his home network. I just want to erase all time machine data that is filling whole disk space. I have wd smartware installed and would like to re format my drive and continue using the smartware but be more selective as to what gets backed up. How can i reset everything to factory and reformat the drive to factory settings.
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