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Erasing the Drive, Diagnostics, SMART Status, Quick Drive Test, Complete Drive Test

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MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL 2. If you have more than one supported drive connected to your computer, select the one that you want to check. 3. Click Diagnostics to display the Diagnostics dialog: 4. On the Diagnostics dialog, click the button for the test that you want to run: SMART Status Quick Drive Test Complete Drive Test Erasing the Drive CAUTION! Erasing your drive permanently deletes all of the data on the drive. Always make sure that you no longer need any of the data on your drive before erasing it. Note: Erasing your drive also deletes the WD software and all of the support files, utilities, and user manual files. You can download these to restore your to its original configuration after erasing the drive. WD Drive Utilities provides two ways to erase your drive, depending on whether it is locked or not: IF your drive is . . . AND you . . . Not locked, Want to erase the drive, Locked Have forgotten or lost your password and must erase the drive, THEN see . . . "Using the Drive Erase Function" on page 53. "Using Five Invalid Passwords" on page 54 MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DRIVE - 52

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MY PASSPORT ULTRA
METAL EDITION
USER MANUAL
MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DRIVE
– 52
2.
If you have more than one supported drive connected to your computer, select the
one that you want to check.
3.
Click
Diagnostics
to display the Diagnostics dialog:
4.
On the Diagnostics dialog, click the button for the test that you want to run:
±
SMART Status
±
Quick Drive Test
±
Complete Drive Test
Erasing the Drive
Note:
Erasing your drive also deletes the WD software and all of the support
files, utilities, and user manual files. You can download these to restore
your to its original configuration after erasing the drive.
WD Drive Utilities provides two ways to erase your drive, depending on whether it is
locked or not:
CAUTION!
Erasing your drive permanently deletes all of the data on the drive. Always
make sure that you no longer need any of the data on your drive before erasing it.
IF your drive is . . .
AND you . . .
THEN see . . .
Not locked,
Wan
t to erase the drive,
“Using the Drive Erase Function”
on page 53.
Locked
Have forgotten or lost your
password and
must
erase the
drive,
“Using Five Invalid Passwords”
on page 54