Some of the included tools could wipe your entire drive.

You can scan for errors as well as check for increases in temperature, noise, or read and write errors, which can all be signs of a failing hard drive.īe sure to back up your drive first.

That we have to make sure that we as people and customers are safe from companies stealing and abusing our data.WD Drive Utilities lets you configure, manage, and diagnose your Western Digital external drives. I think it is important that these large tech companies aren't allowed to pull of things like this. They also have a double menu for accepting the data-sharing-agreement where the agree and not agree changes colors and position to trick you into thinking they mean the same. This means forcing customers to share their data if they want to install. Wester Digital's software Discovery, requires you to share your data for the installation to be successful. Please share this so that WD has to fix this( I have already notified them). I went ahead and made a few checks where I agreed to sharing data and didn't with both of the menus for this, and every time I agreed to sharing the data the installer would successfully connect to the servers, and each time I didn't agree to sharing the data it couldn't connect to the servers. It skipped to the installation/download but couldn't connect to the servers and just before that it showed a few frames of the successful downloads/installation page making me very suspicious. A new menu appeared with the same info but different boxes, sizes and colors asking me again, if I wanted to share data, I said no. I usually find these things interesting so I went ahead and installed it, and in the installer asked if I wanted to share my data, since I know from experience that that often infers more data than what it seems like and they often sell the data or it gets leaked I went ahead an disagreed. I went to start my new external hard drive from Wester Digital (Elements) and I noticed two installers (windows and mac) for a software called 'Discovery'.

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