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WD has s to remove the Smartware and its VCD, Mac or Windows. STEP 1: Firmware Update: Release 2.003 (3/4/10) Before running the Virtual CD Manager, you must first update the firmware on your hard drive. Disconnect all other external drives from the computer except for the My Book or My Passport drive you want to update. Ensure that the My Book or My Passport drive is connected to a USB port on your computer.

Download the Firmware Updater for Windows. Unzip the file and double click to open the Firmware Updater. Click Continue to update the firmware. Click Accept the End User's License Agreement (EULA). The updater will scan the drive which may take a few minutes. Verify the attached drive's serial number located on the back of the drive. Click Update Firmware.

Once the updater is finished, click Exit. Turn off the drive - For My Passport, disconnect the USB cable. For My Book disconnect both USB and power cables. Wait 10 seconds.

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Reconnect the USB/power cables. STEP 2: Download and run the VCD Manager. Download VCD Manager for Windows.(WDSmartWareVirtualCDManagerforWindows-v1.0.7.4.zip) to your desktop. Unzip the utility (Extract the file using an extraction utility.). Double click WDSmartWareVirtualCDManagerforWindows-v1.0.7.4.exe. Click Continue to disable the VCD.

Once the utility has found your drive, click Configure Drive and then click Exit. Turn off the drive - For My Passport, disconnect the USB cable.

For My Book disconnect both USB and power cables. Wait 10 seconds. Reconnect the USB/power cables that have been disconnected in the previous step. Verify that the VCD no longer appears. For Mac OS X I followed the instructions already posted above: but VCD didn't work until I changed the security preferences, which I had to do with the smartware to get rid of the password. Then after VCD worked, the My Book was still read only, so I used the smartware which was still installed to erase everything already on the drive, and then it finally worked like an external hard drive is supposed to and was read and writable (and then I deleted the smartware software I had installed on my computer).this hard drive was a pain in the neck. I wanted remove the VCD partition, instead of hiding it.

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This problem frustrated me to no end, but I was finally able to completely remove the VCD from two WD SmartBooks. There were two steps that actually seem to have done something. First, on Windows, I updated the BIOS as @Gnoupi suggests (I'm not convinced I needed to do this, but I won't undo it). Second, on Linux, I ran palimpsest (a disk management utility w/ a GUI) removed all visible partitions and chose Format drive - Master Boot Record - BSD. I then chose Format drive-don't partition. I am now able to access all of the 999gb capacity and do what I want with it. Included on the 'VCD' is the software required to enable and disable it.

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It's called 'Virtual CD Manager.app', on MacOS (I presume something similar exists when mounted under Windows?) You have to copy it to your hard drive to run it (otherwise, it gives you an error message saying as much), and once you've done that, you just run it and follow the prompts. Each time you go through the process, it will alternate between being visible and being hidden. Note: This software is the same software that you can as mentioned in other answers. In this answer, I'm just pointing out that a version of it (though presumably it may not be the latest version, and therefore you may want to download it) exists on the 'virtual CD' already, which you can copy and run.