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WD 5GB external USB dive Head parking problem
I have a WD 5TB external SATA/ USB3 drive, who seems to parks the head every 4 seconds with a dumb clicking sound that drives me nuts.
I downloaded the software WDIDLE3 and loaded up to an USB card with Rufus bootup utility.
Now starting this utility in DOS won't recognize the external drive?
It starts with C:\>
However there is no way to change that to the external drive.
Or to get any list of available drives. (I took out the normal fixed drives/ SSD and SATA)
It's to long ago that I did something with DOS commands so I may be wrong.
It must be possible to change the setting of the counter in the drive to a much longer period of head parking.
Crystaldisc is greyed out on advanced options, so that won't do either.
Anyone have an answer?
Last edited by Bernardus; 05 Dec 2017 at 02:22.