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June 2nd, 2017, 03:40 PM
#1
Looking For a Western Digital Hard Drive Utilities CD
I have a sickly WDC WD1003FZEX-OOK3CA0 hardrive. I am trying to find a bootable cd to run checks on this drive. I can only find a utlilty the runs under windows. My OS is pretty messed up . Can someone help me find an ISO file for a bootable cd standalone Western Digital utility disk. I have been unable to find one. It should be easily available I would have thought.
thanks
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June 2nd, 2017, 03:57 PM
#2
UBCD5 has WD diags on it.
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...oot-CD-5-Guide
Otherwise, you can download the WD Diags for DOS to create a bootable USB flash drive.
http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=2&lang=en
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June 2nd, 2017, 09:11 PM
#3
I have Western Digital drives and have always used the first one Midknyte suggested. The UBCD, which ever version is newest.
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June 3rd, 2017, 10:21 AM
#4
Thanks for the good advice. I did manage to run Seatools and UBCD 5.3.5 that I had lying around and both of them said that there were too many errors and to forget it ! I am running on the pc right now. I don't know how it is running but it has all sorts of issues including damaged dll's etc.
This drive is only 6 months old. Has anyone dealt with a WD warranty claim. I will have to look back and see where I bought this drive from. I have financial information on this drive etc and I really don't want to send it back to persons unknown. What do others do in this situation ?
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June 3rd, 2017, 11:00 AM
#5
Originally Posted by Markgc
Thanks for the good advice. I did manage to run Seatools and UBCD 5.3.5 that I had lying around and both of them said that there were too many errors and to forget it ! I am running on the pc right now. I don't know how it is running but it has all sorts of issues including damaged dll's etc.
This drive is only 6 months old. Has anyone dealt with a WD warranty claim. I will have to look back and see where I bought this drive from. I have financial information on this drive etc and I really don't want to send it back to persons unknown. What do others do in this situation ?
I've used their warranty on only one drive and was not happy they sent me a refurbished one instead a brand new one. From then on, I just junked em and bought new.
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June 3rd, 2017, 11:14 AM
#6
Originally Posted by photolady
I've used their warranty on only one drive and was not happy they sent me a refurbished one instead a brand new one. From then on, I just junked em and bought new.
I did the same thing.
Got so I just bought a new hdd and made darn sure I had 3 backups, with 2 of them being off site at all times.
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June 3rd, 2017, 11:44 PM
#7
I had the same experience when my drive went out.
They did cover the warranty, but I was sent a Refurbished Drive for a replacement.
I've been using Seagate ever since and so far (knock on wood), I've never had a Seagate go out on me.
I do currently have a 500gb Western Digital Black (7200rpm) - Thin (7mm) Laptop Hard Drive.
This was my first Western Digital Hard Drive since the 40gb Drives I use to use many years back!
Asus Zenbook Q508UG-212.R7TBL 2-in-1 Laptop
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Processor
8gb DDR4 RAM (Soldered on Motherboard)
1gb Western Digital Blue NVMe SSD
NVIDA MX450 (DDR6)
15.6" 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) Touchscreen
Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless - AC 7260
USB 1 x 2.0 - USB 1 x 3.0 - USB-C 1 x 3.1
Micro SD Card Reader
Lighted Keyboard
Webcam/Microphone
Windows 11 Professional
MS Office 365 Family
Logitech Anywhere MX Mouse
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June 4th, 2017, 12:05 AM
#8
Well, I've never had a Seagate drive that didn't die on me. And with only one WD drive, I'll stick to those at SATA only. Because now I use SSD drives for OS/programs.
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June 4th, 2017, 10:15 AM
#9
Back in the 60 GB PATA [ide] days, , A lot of us had problems with hdds, Sure glad those days are gone now.
Remember having to low level format hard drives 2 or 3 times in a row to get the darn things to work right.
Even had to post that information a few times.
SSD for C\ drive is the way I go now.
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June 4th, 2017, 11:13 AM
#10
I agree that running an SSD Drive for C:\ is the best option.
My Acer Laptop is set up with a Crucial 256gb mSATA SSD Drive for the Operating System and Office Package
then the 500gb Western Digital Black (7200rpm) - Thin (7mm) Laptop Hard Drive for Storage.
Asus Zenbook Q508UG-212.R7TBL 2-in-1 Laptop
AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Processor
8gb DDR4 RAM (Soldered on Motherboard)
1gb Western Digital Blue NVMe SSD
NVIDA MX450 (DDR6)
15.6" 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) Touchscreen
Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless - AC 7260
USB 1 x 2.0 - USB 1 x 3.0 - USB-C 1 x 3.1
Micro SD Card Reader
Lighted Keyboard
Webcam/Microphone
Windows 11 Professional
MS Office 365 Family
Logitech Anywhere MX Mouse
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