Having bought my second Western Digital MyBook 1TB, I faced an annoying issue: I couldn’t get rid of the virtual CD. This may seem a small problem, but I dislike when I have to deal with stuff, I didn’t ask for in the first place.

My first thought was to delete the part of my hard drive that contains the files. That didn’t work out well, not to say not at all. Not even my beloved gParted could get rid of it.

Step two was the visit of Western Digital’s website for more information. (Only a geek would understand why this wasn’t my first step. ) I ended up here but wasn’t happy with that solution. Yeah I know, I’m difficult.

My final solution was the cleanest in my opinion and includes typing the following into the terminal:

sudo sh -c "echo UUID=`diskutil info /Volumes/WD\ SmartWare/ | grep 'UUID' | awk '{print $NF}'` none hfs rw,noauto 0 0 >> /etc/fstab"

After a restart there’s nothing but a clean desktop and my Finder isn’t unnecessarily cluttered either.