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Millions of people around the world trust their data to my book desktop storage. My book essential edition is a small, elegant, and easytouse usb external hard drive. I was copying about 717mb of data to it yesterday and it said it was going to take about 1517 minutes to finish. Using the western digital my book hard drive facilitates our lifes, you can take your favourite media data or any important files to anywhere when you need them. Dec 20, 2012 i have a wd 1tb mybook 1140 external hard drive, and it has worked fine up until now. Wds bestselling my book elite usb external hard drive features wd smartware. For mac, go to the apple menu and select software update if your device is currently running firmware version 02. Just plug it in and save your valuable data, music, photos, and movies. Transfering files from one my book to another hacking wd. Jun 18, 20 hi all, ive recently bought a 3tb wd my book live.
You store your vital data in the wd my book hard drive, if you encountered the data loss, you. The start type of the windows modules installer service was changed from auto start to demand start. File transfer from the old drive was quick and didnt lose a thing. My book user manual about your wd drive 1 about your wd drive secure your precious memories on my book desktop storage. Western digital my book live user manual pdf download. Western digital my book external hard drive my book is a series of external hard drives produced by western digital. Windows modules installer service was changed windows 8. Wd 1140 my book usb device will only show up as local disk. From there, you will be able to update to the current available 02. Jan 06, 2012 western digital 4tb my book unboxing and.
We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Dec 16, 2016 if you have a wd mycloud or mybook live nas, you can connect to it via ftp to transfer files much faster than the normal windows explorer network transfer. As shown in figure 1, your my book drive kit includes the following. I use this with windows 7 home and love the fact that i can see capacity at a glance. Apr 07, 2020 our real world testing of the western digital my book 3.
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