Western Digital My Book Essential, 500GB WDH1U5000E ユーザーズマニュアル

MY BOOK ESSENTIAL EDITION

USER MANUAL

ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE – 3

About Your WD Drive

This WD device is preformatted as a single FAT32 partition for compatibility with all 
updated Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The FAT32 file system has a 
maximum individual file size of 4 GB. 

This WD device cannot create partitions larger than 32 GB in Windows 2000/XP. 
Windows 2000 and XP users can overcome these file size limitations by reformatting 
the drive to NTFS using the Disk Management utility. See answer ID 1287 at 
support.wdc.com and article IDs 314463 and 184006 at support.microsoft.com for 
further details.

1. Go to support.wdc.com.

2. See Knowledge Base Answer ID 207 for formatting instructions.

After formatting, go to Downloads, find your product, download the My Book utility, 
and follow instructions as prompted.

The power/activity LED is located on the center, front panel of the device. LED activity 
is indicated as follows:

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For drive security, this device is equipped with a Kensington Security Slot, which 
supports a standard Kensington security cable (sold separately). For more 
information on the Kensington Security Slot and available products, visit 
www.kensington.com.

Important: Reformatting My Book erases all its contents. If you have already saved 
files on My Book, be sure to back them up before reformatting it.

Steady

Power-on state or power-save mode

Fast flashing (for approx. 3 seconds)

Transitioning to system standby

Slow flashing (every 5 seconds)

System standby

Up and down

Drive in use