I hope that we have met your expectations today and that you are satisfied with our service. Open your smartware -> setting -> drive setting -> then choose to enable your virtual CD. See one of the replies I got, and may be you can understand my suffering: I did send my problem to WD support more than 3 times, but they are helpless, and some of them is unable to reply in proper English, and unfortunately I can not speak Malay. I am trying to install “WD SmartWare Virtual CD Manager for Windows Web Release-v1.0.8.3”, but installation can not continue as the setup as it asks to press Rescan, as setup is unable to find the WD SmartWare Drive, while in the same drive is already shown on “My Computer”, and I can browse files on it…!Īlthough I disconnected the drive and reconnected it after 10 seconds as prescribed but I still get the same stupid response, see image : I have upgraded to WD Smartware 1.4.1.1, and it works OK, except it can not analyze file types for the WD external drive as it does for my internal HDD, see the below photo: I bought it since 10 days in Malaysia, it is a fresh product (drive was manufactured after June 15, 2010) If Windows is unable to find the driver you can download a copy of the driver from Answer ID 5419: WD SES driver download and instructions for recovering the WD SmartWare installer.Can anyone please help, telling me the problem with My Passport Essential? This will not affect your operating system negatively in any way. Windows will automatically find the Windows SES driver online, and the prompting will disappear. We recommend that you install the driver by selecting the Install the software automatically option on the popup screen. This will continue to occur unless the SES driver is installed. However if you did not install the driver upon first install and chose not to install WD Smartware, Windows will continue to prompt you to install the driver each time you connect the drive to a computer. This driver is only used by your hard drive and is installed by default when you first attach the drive to a computer. Your new Western Digital My Passport/My Book hard drive requires a special communications channel (SCSI) between your PC and the drive to enable certain features such as password protection, LED control, and access to the drives label if applicable.Īt install, the Windows operating system detects this SCSI communications channel and attempts to install a SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) driver. ![]() What is this driver, why is it required and how can I get rid of the repeated prompts to install the driver? Windows attempts to install a driver called the SES Driver every time I connect the drive to a computer. ![]() For assistance doing this please see Answer ID 5419: WD SES driver download and instructions for recovering the WD SmartWare installer. You can download a copy of the SES driver from our knowledge base. ![]() ![]() The prompts to install the driver are part of the Windows Operating system and will always occur when connecting a drive to a Windows PC without the driver installed. Western Digital still recommends installing the SES driver when not using WD SmartWare, but the drive will function without it. If you wish to use the drive as a simple hard drive and do not require access to the advanced features of the drive, you can hide the VCD by following Answer ID 3835: How to disable (hide) the Virtual CD (VCD) for Windows or Mac OSX on a My Book or My Passport drive. To access many of the optional features of your drive, you will be required to install both the SES driver, and the WD SmartWare software. The SES (SCSI Enclosure Services) driver is different from the Virtual CD, and the WD SmartWare software. If your drive is not recognized please see Answer ID 1708: I cannot find drivers for my WD drive and/or my Operating System fails to recognize my WD drive. The SES driver is not required for your drive to be recognized by your computer.
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