Looking For a Western Digital Hard Drive Utilities CD

[Markgc]

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

[Midknyte]

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

[photolady]

I have Western Digital drives and have always used the first one Midknyte suggested. The UBCD, which ever version is newest.

[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 ?

[photolady]

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.

[Train]

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.

[bugspop1]

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!

[photolady]

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.

[Train]

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.

[bugspop1]

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.