WD Drive Utilities is a program designed to help you manage, change features, diagnose potential errors and configure Western Digital external HDD drives. WD Drive Utilities does not accept drives from other manufacturers, but only works with My Passport external hard drives and My Book Western Digital drives.
WD Drive Utilities allows you to perform tests to determine the correct operability of external drives. If the device is running slowly, you should check the entire drive and analyze each sector for errors. WD Drive Utilities supports the function of detecting and detecting when there is a change in temperature, noise, or errors in reading or writing data, easily leading to data loss, data corruption.
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Main features of WD Drive Utilities:
– Manage and change the features of HDD drives.
– Fault diagnosis and HDD configuration.