I have a 2TB “My Book Essential”. PN WDBACW0020HBK-01.
My plan had been to use it for backing up all of my documents on my PC with the hope that it would be easy to also connect the drive to another PC to pull some of the files off of the My Book easily.
The basic concept seemed to work fine but I later discovered that all the backup data on the My Book was encrypted and you had to install the WD software on every PC that you wanted to copy data to.
I do not want to do this, thus the following question.
Is there a way to simply use the My Book like an external drive without installing any extra “backup” software? I simply want to be able to take the My Book to a different computer, find some files on the My Book and copy them off.
Can someone tell me how to set things up so there is no encryption and/or extra software to install on each PC?
I would like an automatic backup program like WD supplies but I assume their’s relies on the compression / encryption software they supply. Can anyone suggest another piece of backup software that would work? I do like the idea that the WD software backs up as soon as it detects a file has changed but this process also makes the PC slow down terribly while it monitors for changes!!
Anyone’s thoughts, suggestions or links will definately be appreciated!!
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