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![]() Nice but if you’re already signed up for a different cloud server I don’t know that you will want this. WD Backup seems to be a program principally aimed at backing up files to the WD cloud. Might be nice, but I’ve never had something like this before, and I don’t think my life as been worse because of it. WD Utilities seems to be something to monitor the functionality of the drive. According to the WD support guy, who was of little help with this problem, WD Security isn’t supported to work on the easystore drive I bought.Īnother option, is to not install this software at all. ![]() You can install WD Backup, WD Drive Utilities and WD Security from there. “Install WD Discovery for Windows” is the option you want Software and Firmware Downloads | WD Support Download and install the version of WD Discovery from the WD website.Assuming you foolishly installed the software that came on the drive, uninstall every thing that you can find of it with the uninstalll part of the control panel (Programs and Features).:( you probably wouldn’t be reading this if you knew not to do that) Do not install anything that comes on the drive.OK, more than four hours in and I can run the WD Drive Utilities. So now I’m more than three hours in and still haven’t gotten WD Utilities to work. The WD drive utilities still report " Attach a supported WD Drive" Maybe I need to uninstall the old WD Drive Utilities so the updated utilities can be installed? Then I clicked on the WD Secuirty update and that alos stalled about 75% of the way through. I clicked on the WD Drive Utilities update and that stalled about 75% of the way through. It appears that no update for WD Backup is available, probably because it’s up to date. The update mechanism withing the program doesn’t work but WD has an updated WD Discovery program that seems to work after it is installed.īut still no joy on getting WD Utilities to workĪfter I had a working copy of WD Discovery installed the options to update apps are displayed. The WD Discovery program was reporting that it was out of date. Fortunately I have a solid state C drive so reboots are pretty quick because I’ve done a lot of them. I have tried a number of the solutions above in various permutations. In Disk Utility on your Mac, protect sensitive information on a storage device by requiring users to enter a password to access its files. ![]() You would have to use a third party software to password-protect the drive Apple Support Encrypt and protect a storage device with a password in Disk Utility on Mac It is why WD Security is not detecting your drive. The only Software compatible with your device is Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for Windows. Make sure you copy all the documents before clicking on erase button. ![]() and from Partition on the top, click on it and select the format. select then the Drive then from the top click on Erase and then change the format from the pop up window to what match with your Macintosh …I have changed it to APFS (encrypted) and then click on Erase (make sure u copied all the documents you want on another volume before you erase the disk) automatically asked me for a password to create. Hi, for the guys who are using Mac…need to do it thru the " Disk Utilities". ![]()
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