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MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL 

USER MANUAL

LOCKING AND UNLOCKING YOUR DRIVE – 27

This chapter includes the following topics: 

Password Protecting Your Drive
Unlocking Your Drive
Turning Off the Drive Lock Feature
Changing Your Password

You should password protect your drive if you are worried that someone else will gain 
access to your drive and you do not want them to be able to access your content on the 
drive.

You can reach the Security pages for password management during the initial getting 
started process or from the Settings tab and the Drive Settings screen within the 
WD SmartWare application. After you are on the password page, you can:

•   Create a password

•   Change a password

•   Eliminate the need for a password

To

create a password and keep others from accessing the files on your drive, as an 

example from the Settings tab:

Click the Settings tab to display the Settings screen (see Figure 10 on 
page 19).

2.   Click Set Up Drive to display the Drive Settings screen (see Figure 16 on page 28).

After you have created a password, the drive can only be unlocked by a 

user logged on to the computer with administrative privileges. This is not usually 
possible on computers at hotels, libraries, or Internet kiosks. If you need to use the 
drive on such computers, do not create a password to lock your drive.