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#SMARTWARE VIRTUAL CD MANAGER WINDOWS FOR MAC OS X#
#SMARTWARE VIRTUAL CD MANAGER WINDOWS FOR MAC#

Once the Virtual CD setting is finished, click Exit.Once the utility has found your drive, click Configure Drive.Click Drive to configure and select your drive.Unzip the utility and double click to open.

#SMARTWARE VIRTUAL CD MANAGER WINDOWS FOR MAC#

Download VCD Manager VirtualCDManager_v1003.zip for Mac to your desktop.

Mac STEP 2:Download and run the VCD Manager

For My Book disconnect both USB and power cables.

Turn off the drive – For My Passport, disconnect the USB cable.

Once the updater is finished, click Exit.

Click Accept the End User’s License Agreement (EULA).

Drag both My Book Drive and WD SmartWare Virtual CD icons to Trash bin.

Verify the attached drive’s serial number located on the back of the drive.

Unzip the Firmware Updater and double click WD Essential and Elite Firmware Updater for Mac.

Ensure that the My Book or My Passport drive is connected to a USB port on your computer.

Disconnect all other external drives from the computer except for the My Book or My Passport hard drive you want to update.

#SMARTWARE VIRTUAL CD MANAGER WINDOWS FOR MAC OS X#

This update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.4.11, Mac OS X 10.5.8 and any version of Mac OS X 10.6. Mac OS® X, Tiger®, Leopard®, Snow Leopard™ Western Digital’s portable ‘Passport drive’ Failure to perform these precautions may cause data corruption/loss and/or drive failure.ANY and ALL programs that would require drive access during the update MUST be disabled.All Anti-Spyware software MUST be disabled.All AntiVirus software MUST be disabled.The following precautions must be performed before installing the firmware update: Mac instructions will come first, and Windows users look further down the page. This should work for the next year at least: You can view the instructions from Western Digital on this link, or on this page below! Note that these instructions may change in the future If newer editions of the drive come out, then I’ll be making an update to the page. Don’t ask me why a simple ‘delete’ function or ‘eject permanently’ isn’t more readily available. However, there is a fix that Western Digital provides on their website. It would seem that at first it’s permanent, and the only way to get it to disappear is to install the software that comes with the drive. This is a virtual drive that is setup with the hard-drive that mounts every time you plug it in.

If you’ve purchased a Western Digital Passport or MyBook drive in the past little while (I’ve recently bought 3), you’ve no doubt run into the Western Digital Smartware. Remove ‘WD SmartWare’ from your Western Digital Passport or MyBook « Let Me Teach You Something Remove ‘WD SmartWare’ from your Western Digital Passport or MyBook OctoPosted by John Ruby in Solutions, Troubleshooting & Knowledge Bases.