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If you're running into issues with your Western Digital mass storage device, it might be time to use a specialized utility to analyze it. With Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics, you've got a few options to scan for errors.
The command-line utility Dmdiag.exe is used to determine the partition offsets of Windows dynamic volumes. Important: Neither the output of the wmic command listed earlier nor any other tool designed only for basic disks reliably reports starting partition offsets of Windows dynamic disks. SeaTools - Quick diagnostic tool that checks the health of your drive.
The program interface of Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics is a little old school, but after installation and execution of it, you've given a list of detected connected disk drives.
Upon right clicking the affected Western Digital hard drive, you can perform either a quick test or extended test, both of which may take some time depending on the physical size of the drive in question.
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Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics also provides a couple of additional tools, mainly the erase function which will erase the data currently stored on the drive.
Finally the 'View test results' function will display a list of issues detected. It doesn't appear that this diagnostics tool provides any fixes or repairs for affected drives, but at least you know where the issues lay if a scan is successful.
It's interesting to note the diagnostics tools also work on other hard drive vendors.
Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.37.0 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from drive utilities without restrictions. Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.37.0 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.
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- Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics Download
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- Major release: Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.37
- Hard Disk Testing Software