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Once the utility has found your drive, verify the serial number shown is the same as the one you wish to hide the VCD on and click Configure Drive.

Double click WDSmartWareVirtualCDManagerforWindows-v1.0.7.4.exe.

(Extract the file using an extraction utility)

Download the VCD Manager for Windows utility from our website.

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How to Disable/Enable VCD without SmartWare Installed in Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP

Open My Computer (Windows XP), Computer (Windows Vista and Windows 7), or File Explorer (Windows 8), and verify that the VCD does not appear.

On the right side of the screen, click the radial button for either Enable VCD if you want to show the VCD, or Disable VCD if you wish to hide it.

Click on the Virtual CD button on the left side of the screen.

Once updated launch the WD Smartware software.

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Download and install the latest version of WD Smartware from the Western Digital website.For assistance updating the firmware on your drive please see Answer ID 15087: RETIRED: WD Universal Firmware Updater: Update for My Book or My Passport. To disable the VCD, follow the steps below.īefore disabling your VCD you must update your drive firmware. The VCD can be re-enabled at any time you want to enable the Drive Lock function. If you don't wish to use the Drive Lock feature, you can safely disable the VCD. The VCD cannot be disabled if you wish to use the Drive Lock feature.

Depending on your model of drive the content of the VCD will vary, however it will always contain the WD Unlocker application, and it appears on the screen each time you connect your WD drive to the computer. On your My Passport or My Book hard drive is a small portion of drive space which has been used to create a Virtual CD (VCD) which appears on your computer as an actual CD volume. How to Disable/Enable VCD with SmartWare Installed in Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP

#Wd smartware virtual cd manager no device found mac osx#

Mac OSX 10.5.x (Leopard), 10.6.x (Snow Leopard), 10.7.x (Lion), and 10.8.x (Mountain Lion) without using WD SmartWare Mac OSX 10.5.x (Leopard), 10.6.x (Snow Leopard), 10.7.x (Lion), and 10.8.x (Mountain Lion) using WD SmartWare Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP without using WD SmartWare Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP using WD SmartWare If this option does not appear, then you can't disable or enable the VCD on your specific model drive.

The software will only show the Enable/Disable VCD option if the drive supports it.

Because there is no VCD, these instructions do not apply to the product.

Network drives such as the My Book Live family or My Cloud family which include the WD SmartWare software do not have a VCD.

How to install WD SmartWare on a Windows PC. You can download a copy of SmartWare from our website.

Once the VCD is disabled you will be unable to access the WD SmartWare installer on the VCD image (on older model drives).

Current versions of the VCD are only about 20 MB in size- this is about the size of a few pictures. There is no way to remove it from the disk.

The Virtual CD manager only disables the VCD image.WD Smartware has reached it's end of support life cycle.įor more details, please refer to Answer ID 30039 WD Smartware End of Support and Answer ID 28740 WD Product Software Support Statusīefore following these instructions, there are several things you need to consider: IMPORTANT: WD Smartware End of Support Notice! Please note that this is different from uninstalling the WD SmartWare software from the computer.*END This answer explains how to disable/hide the WD SmartWare VCD on a My Book or My Passport drive using either Windows or Mac OSX.