Raid Recovery Tips

When you connect a WD external drive to your Mac computer, and you have the WD Drive Manager installed on it, a little blue WD icon appears in the upper right corner of your desktop. Depending on the status of your drive, or dual RAID drive, the WD icon will do different things.

1. The WD icon is also the way that you access the drive’s status, or as in this case, the drive’s RAID status. When the RAID is healthy, you will see the blue WD icon. Clicking on the WD icon opens a short menu that leads to launching the RAID Manager. From there, you…

Please Note: WD Drive Manager will appear in the System Tray only when your WD My Book external hard drive is attached to your computer. The software can be downloaded from the Downloads Library.

Examples of what it does on single WD My Book drives:

• When you mouse over the WD icon, the WD Drive Manager will show you the drive status: Drive Name, Volume Letter, Percent Used, Temperature Status. If the drive is healthy, the icon is steady and dark blue.

  

• When you right-click on the Drive Manager icon, it will allow you to safely remove the drive.

  

• Left-click on the…