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The software on my drive (purch Apr 2010) does not force an installation of Smartware. There is now an option to not install the software, which then leads it to only install drivers. It does not prompt for the software install after that and shows as a straight drive that I could drag and drop onto. One nice feature is the drive will power down if the computer is turned off or the usb cord unplugged. Then it turns on automatically when the computer is turned back on, or is plugged into another computer.

See below for a way to enable password protection of the drive without leaving Smartware installed.

The virtual CD can be turned off from within the software, or through a separate download from the WD website. It turned off, then back on just fine. Other people mentioned formatting the drive to get full capacity afterwards, but I didn’t try that. Instructions for how to do that are at the WD website.

One thing to clear up is the people saying the virtual CD takes up 70 GB. It takes up less than 500 MB. The 70 GB apparent deficiency relates to the way Windows reports hard drive sizes, not the virtual CD.

A 1 TB drive does not show up as 1,000 GB, but rather as 931 GB in Windows. Right click any drive (or even a file) and go to properties and compare the capacity in bytes to the capacity in MB or GB right next to it. They are not the same. I think you have to divide 1 TB by 1,024 to get how many KB it is, then by 1,024 again to get how many MB, then 1,024 again to get how many GB. So 930 GB for this drive is really 1 TB, minus about 1GB due to the file structure and virtual CD. Again, it does appear you can re-format and claim back the space the virtual CD space back, but I kept it for a specific reason I’ll mention later.

After I verified it worked as a straight drive, I tried Smartware. The main problem with Smartware is there’s no way to selectively backup certain folders or even just pick a different backup interval besides continuous backup.
Western Digital My Book

I read this first when I was 17 and was assigned it in high school, and again just now when I am 53. This truly is a great book. But it should not be assigned to kids to read in high school. The assumption is that because it is about a teenager they will somehow empathize with Holden Caufield, and so be introduced to great literature. But I don’t think that kids that age have the level of self-awareness necessary to appreciate what Holden is going through. It’s the kind of thing you have to look back on to get. Certainly that is the experience of Holden himself. He has no appreciation of the events that are transforming him and only a dim understanding that he might be receiving useful advice along the way. So I expect it is the same with many of the kids who are forced to read this in high school. Wait until you are well past the experience, and I think you will appreciate this book a lot more.
Western Digital My Passport

If you have important files that you cannot afford to lose or cannot duplicate get this product. You just plug and go and follow the directions. You can even save you e-mails and attachements. It is 128-bit encryption so your information is safe. I am backing up all of my electronic files and storing it on my WD Passport so I can place it in my fire box or security deposit box. This is the new way to store all of your important files.
Western Digital My Passport

This is a tome, first of all. Stephenie Meyers sets a good hook, and then keeps her readers turning page after page after page. She puts out a good, if unlikely, story line. The setting is the little town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. It almost always rains there. 17 year old Bella Swan left Phoenix and her mother to go live with her father, the town’s police chief, for the last year of high school.
She meets the Cullen family on her first day in the cafeteria–5 impossibly beautiful people with identically pale faces with purple circles under their eyes. They keep to themselves. She ends up as Edward Cullen’s lab partner in Biology II. He reacts as though her smell offends him when she takes the only seat available in class. We learn later that the opposite is true–her smell drives him crazy. Edward saves her on her second day at school when Tyler skids into her truck on the icy parking lot. There is something inhuman about his intervention that others have missed. He tells her she really should stay away from him while at the same time becoming her shadow.
In the sixth chapter, she joins an outing to the beach at La Push. 15 year old Jacob tells her stories of his own Quileute people becoming wolves and the treaty they made with the cold ones. He specifically tells her the Cullens are the same ones his ancestors dealt with. He doesn’t really believe this himself, though; he is flirting with her. She absorbs this information, does some research on vampires, and concludes it’s already too late for her. She’s in love with a vampire.
I found Bella to be annoying. She careens from one impulsive action to the next. She has some unknown qualities at this point. She feels responsible for her parents, superior to her mother, and believes herself capable of stopping the tracker vampire James. She ends up nearly dead when the tracker gets her through her own arrogance. The Cullens save her just in time by destroying James. Edward exercises amaz
Gene Autry Western Christmas