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Note: When you create a password, the drive begins to protect your data.

This listing appears:

▪ The next time you shut down and restart your computer

▪ When you remove and reconnect the My Passport SSD drive

▪ Your computer exits the sleep mode, depending on its conﬁguration

The listing appears regardless of whether the drive is locked or not, or whether

you selected the Enable auto unlock for this computer... check box when you

created your password. It remains as long as you have password protection

enabled for the drive.

Unlocking the Drive

After you have created a password to keep others from accessing the

ﬁles on your

drive, unless you selected the Enable auto unlock for this computer... check box,

you will have to type your password to unlock the drive whenever:

▪ You shut down and restart your computer

▪ You disconnect and reconnect the drive to your computer

▪ Your computer exits the sleep mode

You will have to do this even if you do not have the My Passport SSD software

installed on your computer.

Depending on the software

conﬁguration of your computer, there are two ways to

unlock the drive, using either the:

▪ WD Security or WD Drive Utilities software

▪ WD Drive Unlock utility

With the WD Security or WD Drive Utilities Software

Whenever you shut down and restart your computer or disconnect and reconnect the drive

to your computer, starting either the My Passport SSD or WD Drive Utilities software

displays the Unlock Drive dialog:

This happens either:

▪ Automatically if you only have the one locked My Passport SSD drive connected to your

computer

▪ When you select the locked drive on either the WD Security or WD Drive Utilities screen

if you have more than one supported drive connected to your computer

To unlock the drive:

1. There are two ways to run WD Security or WD Drive Utilities:

▪ If you have WD Discovery installed and open, you can run WD Security or WD

Drive Utilities by going to the Apps tab,

ﬁnding the application and clicking

Open.

▪ Otherwise, you can run an application from the Windows Start menu by

clicking Start > All Programs > WD Discovery > More WD Apps > WD Security (or

WD Drive Utilities) or Start > All Programs > WD Apps > WD Security (or WD Drive

Utilities).

Locking and Unlocking the Drive

My Passport SSD

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