okay so we're going to be trying to set up the WD My Book Elite so we're going
to try and follow their three easy steps
now I've taken the liberty of plugging in the power cord under the table
already so that I don't have to do that on camera but we're going to plug the
power supply into the back of the unit
right about here DC in and then the next
thing we're going to do oh I saw some lights go on inside the next thing we're
going to do is we're going to plug in the USB cable here which I've already
pluged plug into the back of my test bed PC okay and then I'm going to press the
power button everybody hold your
breath okay the activity LED is going
aha here we go so on the screen now I have two two menus I have one autoplay
for the virtual uh CD drive smartware uh
yes I would like to allow the computer to run that so here we go backup files or setup
Drive which would you like to do oh cool
look at this you just Mouse over and it shows different
stuff that's kind of neat little animations to help you
figure out what everything is okay fine setup Drive okay so you can back up your
file security data automatically check for okay yeah let's install that
accept Okay and then the other menu that came up was just to access the data on
the drive itself where obviously there's no there's no Wizards involved or
anything you just copy paste and that's your one tab of storage so actually let
me see what it says so it is 930 gigs
once it's formatted okay so here the smartware was
successfully installed let's continue the set up okay label uh let's put a
label on this okay here actually here cameraman look at this okay so the drive
came like this which looks as far as I can tell like a p like a piece of paper
but you can see it is changing now so the way the display works it actually
doesn't seem to need any power it's like e in or something so let's set a label
of Linus
is cool and let's see if it'll do that
okay uh save label name
oh okay yes lus is cool okay awesome and
then I can set a password The password
should be lonus and then the verify is lus
cameraman's totally in my way here and then the hint is me I understand save
the security settings okay I don't want to register the drive so um
continue okay there we go so now we have the the software set up here's our
little visual indicator that shows nothing oh cool cool so this shows
my C drive and it shows me how much is pictures how much is other music movies
documents and system and then how much is free and then this is my
book and so the additional files would be the built-in software so that we
didn't have to use a driver CD and then as soon as we start to fill it up with
uh with photos and stuff so why don't we try dragging a couple over there I guess
this should populate maybe it takes a little while
though so give it some time so back up you can actually run the backup at any
time and then retrieve so you can retrieve a backup here are your backup
volumes that's pretty cool this has gotten a lot better since the last time
I used one of these drives I'll tell you that much okay so that was pretty much
it thank you for checking out our little setup guide on the my book Elite and
don't forget lus is cool and he has 930 GB free and the drive is secure cool