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Utilities, Running Drive Diagnostics

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Utilities Use the Utilities window to run drive diagnostics and adjust the drive sleep interval on FreeAgent™ portable drives and to adjust the drive lights on your FreeAgent Go drive. Note: The lights on the FreeAgent Go Small drive cannot be adjusted. Running Drive Diagnostics You should run a diagnostic on your drive regularly as part of general maintenance. A health check determines hard disk integrity and can help troubleshoot potential problems with disk surface, partitioning, and drive recognition. To run a drive diagnostic, Step 1: Close all open files located on the FreeAgent drive. Step 2: Click Utilities on the Command panel. The Utilities window opens: Figure 1: FreeAgent Go Utilities FreeAgent Go User Guide 41

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FreeAgent Go User Guide
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Utilities
Use the
Utilities
window to run drive diagnostics and adjust the drive sleep interval on
FreeAgent™ portable drives and to adjust the drive lights on your FreeAgent Go drive.
Note:
The lights on the FreeAgent Go Small drive cannot be adjusted.
Running Drive Diagnostics
You should run a diagnostic on your drive regularly as part of general maintenance. A
health check determines hard disk integrity and can help troubleshoot potential problems
with disk surface, partitioning, and drive recognition.
To run a drive diagnostic,
Step 1:
Close all open files located on the FreeAgent drive.
Step 2:
Click
Utilities
on the Command panel.
The
Utilities
window opens:
Figure 1:
FreeAgent Go Utilities