An inquiry about updating WD SmartWare(1.4.5.2) into(Windows release 1.6.0 (updated 5/9/2012)

[Wizer]

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 cooperator wrote:

Thank you so much,

Because  I  didn't find that the owner of WD haven't specified which hard disk might be damage during the process of updating. So if am going to do the udpate, will my data on interanl HDD not surely be damage?

Second: I know that all of my files will backed up with 'Categories Backup',. However, as I said before that I don't like to do backup with 'Categories Backup' because my data will be backed up in other paths in the backup volume.

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Well you are updating the External drive so it's obvious that the external drive will be the one affected

The internal drive is not touched during this process

If you don't like the category backup then update the software and try the file backup instead. 

[cooperator]

Do I have to update Step 1: Update the drive firmware(BIOS) (recommended) in order to Update the WD SmartWare software?

my BIOS is (Rev 3.5)