Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics 1.09b is a Disk Management product from wdc.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic is free hard drive testing program designed for Western Digital branded hard drives. Data Lifeguard Diagnostic will also run diagnostics on hard drives from other manufacturers as long as the primary drive is Western Digital.
The Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic program installs on Windows operating systems and allows for a number of hard drive tests. See the installation instructions from Western Digital in the link below for details.
How can you use Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics to do the following:
1. Perform a quick test on a drive for problems
2. Get the serial number of a drive
3. Write zeros to a drive
4. Peform a full media scan on the drive for bad sectors
Features:
* Quick Test:
The Quick Test is designed to intelligently gather and verify all of the Data Lifeguard information contained on the drive. The Quick Test can determine with a high level of confidence that a drive is defect-free in a short amount of time. For maximum confidence, the Extended Test is recommended. The Quick Test option may not be available on earlier IDE drives, SCSI drives and external drives.
* Extended Test:
For most computers the DLGDIAG Extended Test takes 30 minutes to an hour to test one drive. Larger drives take longer to test. The performance of the computer also affects the test time. If a bad sector is detected under Win9x/Me environments, the test may stop responding for a few minutes and then continue. This is not a destructive test unless users select repair function when bad sectors are detected.
* Write Zeros:
This option can be used to erase operating systems and file systems. The QUICK ERASE writes zeros to the first and last million of sectors and the FULL ERASE writes zeros to the entire drive and may take hours to complete depending on the drive size and system performance.
* View Test Results:
The current test results can be displayed with this function. Test results will be overwritten once a new test is started.
The Windows version of the Data Lifeguard Diagnostics utility can perform drive identification, diagnostics, and repairs on a Western Digital FireWire, EIDE, Serial ATA, and USB drive. In addition, it can provide you with the drive's serial and model numbers.
To use the utility:
1.Download Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics. You may need to extract this using an extraction utiltiy such as WinZip.
2.Run the program, windlg.exe. If you're running this under Windows Vista, you will need to Right-click on the windlg.exe file and select Run As Administrator.
3.Read and accept the license agreement to continue.
4.On the main software screen, there are two windows. In the top window, you will see the drives in your system that are available for testing. The model number, serial number, and capacity of each drive will be displayed. In the bottom window, the partition information for the selected drive will be displayed.
5.Double-click the drive to be tested in the top window.
6.The DLGDIAG - Select an Option window appears.
7.You will see the following options:
- QUICK TEST - performs SMART drive quick self-test to gather and verify the Data Lifeguard information contained on the drive.
- EXTENDED TEST - performs a Full Media Scan to detect bad sectors. Test may take several hours to complete depending on the size of the drive.
- WRITE ZEROS - writes zeros to the drive with options of Full Erase and Quick Erase. File system and data will be lost.
- VIEW TEST RESULT - displays the latest test results.
8.Select the test you wish to perform and click the Start button.
9.When the test completes, you will be notified. Click the Close button.
10.A web page will display the test results for the drive.
Note: Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics will test internal hard drives contained within a WD My Book Premium II and WD My Book Pro Edition II storage system. The RAID Array on these units does not need to be broken in order to test the internal drives. The only feature that will not be available with the diagnostics is the SMART data. The diagnostics will not read SMART data from the drives. SoftSea.com had fully tested, reviewed and uploaded the install files, Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics does not contain any adware or spyware, the latest version is 1.09b, you can download this disk management software (4.3 MB) from special server of SoftSea.com. The license of this file & disk software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this File & Disk software.