Where did WD links to CD Diagnostics go?


  1. gregrocker
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    Where did WD links to CD Diagnostics go?


    I can't find the WD Data Lifeguard CD download anywhere on their site, only here now: Data Lifeguard Diagnostic For Western Digital Drives

    The more direct Download link there I've bookmarked is Western Digital Data Lifeguard CD ISO (extract first). Please advise if there is a reason not to use this link.

    What could explain why a major tech company would only offer bootable floppy diagnostics for all of their drives old and new? I mean they literally repeat the floppy download on every single model's Downloads page. Does that strike anyone else to be as mammoth as Support incompetence can get?
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  3. Brink
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    Hey Greg,

    It seems that you have to look up the model number at WD for the drive first before seeing the downloads for Data Lifeguard.
    Here's an example:

    (dos)
    WD Support / Downloads / SATA & SAS / WD VelociRaptor

    (Windows)
    WD Support / Downloads / SATA & SAS / WD VelociRaptor
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  4. gregrocker
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    Shawn -

    Yes, I've always relied on those sub-links to get to the DOS CD download which now seems to be missing for all of them.

    The remaining DOS download opens a script which only writes to Floppy, as shown in the screenie below. There is also no ISO in the bundle.

    I've inquired with WD about this.
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  6. Brink
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    Hmm, I'm not sure what they did with the ISO version either.
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