Western Digital-supported products include My Book, My Book, My Book for Mac, My Book Pro, My Book Duo, WD easystore Desktop, My Passport SSD, My Passport, My Passport Ultra (WD Backup), My Passport Ultra Metal, My Passport for Mac, WD easystore Portable, My Passport for Mac, My Passport Air, etc. This installer - WD Drive Utilities and WD Security, are contained within the WD Drive Utilities and the WD Security zip files and installs custom Western Digital software for. The Western Digital Dashboard includes tools for analysis of the disk (including the disk model, capacity, firmware version, and SMART attributes) and. Some of the included tools could wipe your entire drive. The Western Digital Dashboard for PC helps users maintain peak performance of the Western Digital drives in Windows® operating systems with a user-friendly graphical interface for the user. 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. You can check to see if there is an update for the SATA driver, try changing the SATA configuration in the BIOS to AHCI, and switch SATA port to see if it is seen as a Disk drive and not a SCSI Disk Device.

and why version 2.x does not detect the drive. WD Drive Utilities lets you configure, manage, and diagnose your Western Digital external drives. WD Drive Utilities 2.1.0.142 configures and manages Western Digital drives WD Drive Utilities 2.1.0.142 configures and manages Western Digital drives. If so, that is the reason why you are running into issues with version 1.x.

Instaling WD Drive Utilities 2.1.0.142