Protecting your Iomega® disks is a good way to protect your valuable data. Use the following instructions to protect your Iomega disks using the IomegaWare™ software. Iomega disks cannot be protected or unprotected using software other than IomegaWare.

Use the following instructions to protect your Iomega disk.

Windows | Macintosh

Windows®

1. Insert the Iomega disk you want to protect into your drive.



2. Double-click the My Computer icon.



3. Right-click the drive icon and click Protect.




If the protect option is grayed out, your disk is already protected.

4. Select Write protected or Read & Write Protected from the drop-down box.




Note: If you select Read & Write Protected you will need to supply a password. If you forget the password, the data cannot be recovered and your disk will need to be long formatted. A long format will destroy the data on your disk.

5. Click OK.



6. Click OK again.

Macintosh®

1. Insert the Iomega disk you want to protect into your drive.



2. Double-click the hard drive icon.



3. Locate and double-click the IomegaWare folder.



4. Double-click the Tools folder and then double-click the Tools icon.



5. In the main Tools window, click the icon for your disk.



6. Select the Disk Protection tool.



7. Choose the Protect option.




Note: If you select Read & Write Protected you will need to supply a password. If you forget the password, the data cannot be recovered and your disk will need to be long formatted. A long format will destroy the data on your disk.