Diagnostics

WD Drive Utilities Help

Checking drive health

The WD Drive Utilities™ software provides three diagnostic tools to help make sure that your supported drive is performing well. Run the following tests if you are concerned that your drive is not operating properly:

To run drive diagnostics and status checks:

  1. If you have more than one supported device connected to your computer, select the one that you want to check.
  2. Click Diagnostics to display the Diagnostics dialog.
  3. On the Diagnostics dialog, click the button for the test that you want to run:

Note: You do not have to wait for the drive test to complete. If you want to run drive diagnostics and status checks on another drive, just select the drive and the test you want to run.

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