MY BOOK PREMIUM EDITION II
USER MANUAL
CONNECTING THE DEVICE – 6
Macintosh
®
1. Turn on your computer.
2. Insert the software CD into the CD-ROM drive.
3. Double-click the CD-ROM drive icon, the My Book drive icon, then the Mac
folder, which contains the software for this device.
4. Double-click
My Book RAID Manager
to install this program into the
Applications folder.
5. WD Button Manager Software disk image contains the installer required to enable
the capacity gauge and Safe Shutdown
™
. Double-click this icon to install the
program into the Applications folder.
6. If you want to install the backup software now, double-click the WD Backup
™
icon
in the Mac folder and follow the instructions as prompted.
7. Connect the unit’s power cord and interface cable (USB, FireWire 800, or
FireWire 400) as shown above, after which the unit mounts to the system.
8. To format My Book to HFS+ (journaled) search our knowledge base for answer ID
287 at
support.wdc.com.
