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Hi all i have the wd my book world edition ii, however it doesnt seem to want to play with windows 10. Just remember, if you use it in realtime and you delete or change a file by accident, you wont be able to restore it from your backedup version because it will be instantaneously updated. Western digital my book world edition you and your family have a lot of media files. For mac, go to the apple menu and select software update. Designed to meet wd s demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance, and longterm reliability, we back up pun intended. Save on storage devices from western digital, seagate for world backup day. Using the included back up software you can protect your familys pcs with automatic and continuous backup plans, store all your digital media in one central. Before updating to the latest firmware, it is recommended that youve installed the latest updates and service pack on your computer. Up until now i have been using the wd anywhere backup software that came with my my book world network attached drive to back up my computers. For windows, go to the start menu and select windows update.
We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Hdtune gives the results in opposition to my 4200rpm 100gb internal drive. My book western digital opslaan western digital store. Also i will show how to connect it to you system and how to start your pc back up process. My book world edition user manual vanden borre data. My book world backup programs for win 10 wd anywhere. I recently updated to windows 10 and found that the wd anywhere backup software wont run on windows 10. In the meantime, i have a treasured mybook world 1tb drive that i use regularly to backup all of my photos, music, tax returns you know the. Hello everyone, this topic has been seen many times and even tough i spent 2 days trying to sort out the issue i am still unable to fix it. Wd reliability millions of people around the world trust their data to my book desktop storage. Western digital external hard drive failure is commonplace. I am able to access the drive in network place and can access the dashboard. The actual capacity is 232gb, and at first comes fat32 formatted, though changed this to ntfs.
Unable to connect to my book world back up other network drives. Wd handles backup with anywhere backup which does both oneclick and continuous incremental backups of your computer. Western digital my book world edition 2tb home network storage. Their recommended data recovery service is exorbitantly expensive so i tried my. Mybook world software needed other network drives wd. Your my book drive and the wd drive utilities and wd security software are compatible with the following operating systems. Drivers for wd my book world edition ii in windows 10. My book world backup programs for win 10 wd anywhere backup wont work on win 10. Save on storage devices from western digital, seagate for. Wd smartware can backup your computer on a schedule or ongoing in realtime. Windows 10 and wd software other network drives wd.
It shows up in devices, but in device manager it has a yellow triangle with an exclamation on it. My book disk spins at the rate of 7200 rpm and uses a usb 2. This video will show you the contents of the wd mybook high capacity home network back up drive. Raw disk images bit copies, filesystem dumpwith permissions, partition table, master boot record from a brand new, never booted western digital mybook.