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Third, if this is too complicated/involved for your liking, take the hd to a computer repair shop and they will certainly be able to help you out. With WD Drive Utilities, you can: Run drive diagnostics Manage RAID configuration (For RAID supported models) Erase and format drive Set drive sleep timer (on supported drives) Register drive. Apparently there's a faster 'cat' command which I read about here. Run drive diagnostics Manage RAID configuration (For RAID supported models) Erase and format drive Set drive sleep timer (on supported drives) Register. Note, I ran the 'dd' command and it worked fine but took hours. Instructions: Unzip the file into a folder and double click the. Google is your friend on making sure you run the correct command line so you don't accidentally overwrite your data. This link will get you started, but there is certainly more than one way to do this. Second, you'll need to run the dd command to copy the entire hd contents from one hd to another. I ran Linux Mint, but just about any current distro will be able to do the job for you. It's a little involved for a first-timer, but I made a perfect backup of my hard drive and was able to restore 99% of my data, with only a few corrupted files that I cared about (pictures).įirst, you'll need to boot Linux on your mac. After a lot of searching, I finally found a solution using linux. Very recently, my main hard drive on my imac was dying and had multiple bad sectors so it was difficult to back up using any traditional backup utilities because they would either time out or quit due to a read error. With any hard drive you should always regularly back up your data because hard drives can just simply die with no warnings or alerts. WD Series I USB 2.If Western Digital won't cover a replacement backup under warranty, here's my suggestion:

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WD My Book/Passport Studio FireWire Driver (SAM) for Windows 2000/XP/Vista WD My Book Essential/Premium Edition Driver 1.00.01 for Windows 98SE The WD Discovery application can be installed from your drive. WD Dual-option Media Center USB Driver Update for Windows ME WD Dual-option Media Center Driver 11.8 Update for Windows XP

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WD My Book Pro II Firmware Update 1.08a for Windows 2000/XP/Vista

WD Button Manager for Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista WD My Book Pro II Firmware Update 1.08a for Mac OS Make sure your boot order in your BIOS is set to boot to the CD-ROM drive first.

You can now boot the computer to the diagnostics CD. You must use a CD burning program (such as Nero Burning Rom or EZ-CD Creator) to burn a CD from the. You will see a new file named Diag504fCD.iso on your desktop.Ĥ. (Alternately you have the option to download the iso version of the file which does not require extraction with a zip utility).ģ. Extract the Diag504fCD.zip file to your desktop with a file extraction utility. Diagnostics Bootable CD: Download the Diag504fCD.zip or Diag504fCD.iso file to your desktop.Ģ. This diagnostic utility is designed for hard drives larger than 8.4 GB with the model number starting with WDxxx.ġ. If you are having computer problems which you suspect are hard drive related, you can test your drive with this tool. WD Drive Utilities 2.1.0.20 Western Digital - 11. The Data Lifeguard Diagnostic Tools are used primarily for determining the physical condition of your hard drive.