I’ve read through several threads here and concluded the following:
MyBook SHOULD work as a stand-alone hard drive if you uninstall or never install the WDsoftware. Don’t forget to remove the password (if used) BEFORE uninstalling the WDSoftware.
The WDsoftware does a continuous backup of a user; backing up multiple users or partitioned drives is not supported by tech support.
Windows 7 Backup Home Premium does not support backup to a network drive so if MyBook is connected as a network drive you can’t back up to it.
WDSoftware is a resource hog that crashes your PC and/or slows its use way down.
This leaves me with a useless brick unless I spend a few hours to uninstall the WDSoftware and set up Windows backup and by some miracle that works.
Thanks a lot (sarcasm intended). Anyone who has successfully uninstalled WDsoftware and gotten the brick to work with Windows Backup under Windows 7 Home Premium please let me know!
Not sure what type of My Book drive you have. If it is a My Book LIve, which is actually the only WD network drive that uses SmartWare, then you are in the wrong forum, this one is for all My Book drives, but network drives.
On a side note Windows Backup, included in Windows 7, will only backup to a network drive if you have Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise.