Wd Smartware For Mac

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Yogprasad Moneta

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Aug 4, 2024, 2:31:46 PM8/4/24

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Irecently got a Western Digital MyBook external hard drive to enable Time Machine. It has its software installed on a "virtual CD" called "WD SmartWare" which shows up on the desktop any time the drive is plugged in. Since I will use this virtual drive only very rarely, how can I hide it from the desktop, while allowing other CDs to show up?

but VCD didn't work until I changed the security preferences, which I had to do with the smartware to get rid of the password. Then after VCD worked, the My Book was still read only, so I used the smartware which was still installed to erase everything already on the drive, and then it finally worked like an external hard drive is supposed to and was read and writable (and then I deleted the smartware software I had installed on my computer)

I just plugged it in to one of my system. Then I booted that system up to an Xp install CD and then when given the option from the CD as to what hard-drive I wanted to install to I chose the MyBook and deleted the partition and then formatted it using the Install cd. Once tha formatting was done, I then canceled the CD boot and restarted my system. Now I have a clean MyBook with nothing on it at all, just like the darn thing is supposed to be.

Second, on Linux, I ran palimpsest (a disk management utility w/ a GUI) removed all visible partitions and chose Format drive -> Master Boot Record -> BSD. I then chose Format drive->don't partition.

You have to copy it to your hard drive to run it (otherwise, it gives you an error message saying as much), and once you've done that, you just run it and follow the prompts. Each time you go through the process, it will alternate between being visible and being hidden.

Note: This software is the same software that you can download as mentioned in other answers... In this answer, I'm just pointing out that a version of it (though presumably it may not be the latest version, and therefore you may want to download it) exists on the "virtual CD" already, which you can copy and run.