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Old MyBook

I have an old MyBook WD6400 that was not installed properly. It was set up with a 30 day Memeo trial subscription and sat there useless for many years. Is there any way that I can use this drive without buying software? It seems unethical to me that they would sell this product without telling people they needed to buy software to make it work.

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WD USB drives do not need a particular software for file management operations, only for additional (Secondary) automatic backup operations. Please visit the following link for a step-by-step guide related to direct hard drive use:

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1198/

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Thank you.  Sometimes the answer is so simple you can’t see it.

My pleasure.

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