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Direct Attached Storage (DAS) Drives: My Book, My Book for Mac, My Book Duo, My Passport, My Passport for Mac, My Passport Ultra, My Passport Ultra for Mac, My Passport Ultra (USB-C), My Passport Ultra for Mac (USB-C), My Passport SSD, My Passport Air, My Passport Ultra Metal, WD Backup Drive Desktopįor the "Attach a Supported WD Drive" message, please refer to Answer ID 6265: WD Security & WD Drive Utilities: Attach a Supported WD Drive.Create a password to keep others from accessing the files on the drive.For My Passport SSD and My Passport Go also refer to the following article: Answer ID 29790: WD Backup & WD Security: Does Not Detect My Passport SSD or My Passport Go.For more information, please refer to Answer ID 4677: Invalid Password or Forgotten Password Message on WD Security. THE DRIVE WILL NEED TO BE ERASED BEFORE IT CAN BE USED AGAIN. If the password has been forgotten, you will lose access to your data.The WD Security software uses the set password to electronically lock and unlock the drive.WD Security allows password protection of external drives that support 256-bit AES hardware encryption from unauthorized use or access. If you only want this to run when you login, then you can put the batch file in the following user startup folder - substitute your user name for. If you log out and back in, the same thing happens only the ‘WD Drive Unlock’ popup will tell you that the drive is unlocked. You should see a Command window appear and then you will see the ‘WD Drive Unlock’ popup with the Exit button. Click ‘OK’ again to close the StartupOrder Properties dialog. Right-click the file and select ‘Properties’ at the bottom of the menu popup.ĥc, Select ‘Everyone’ in the Group or user names box.ĥe. Windows may throw up a security message indicating System Admin privileges need to be set.

Open the following directory on your computer:Ĭ:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUpĬopy the StartupOrder.bat file from your desktop to the above Windows startup.Save the file to your desktop as StartupOrder.bat.

(Note F below is where My Book CD appears on my computer so you may need to change OFF

To create a batch file open Notepad and type the following:.

What I did to get this to work is to create a batch file and place it in the Windows Startup folder.

I learned, after clicking the help icon on the WD Drive Unlock dialog, that the unlock utility does not have Windows 10 listed as a supported operating system.