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Utilities, Running Drive Diagnostics

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Utilities The Utilities window allows you to run drive diagnostics and to adjust the drive sleep interval and the drive lights on your FreeAgent™ drive. Note: The Utilities features are not available while your drive is connected via the eSATA port. To run diagnostics, set sleep intervals, or adjust the drive lights, connect the drive through either the USB or the 1394 ports. After adjustments have been made, the eSATA port will reflect the lighting and sleep settings you specified using the USB or 1394 interface. Running Drive Diagnostics You should run a diagnostic on your on your FreeAgent drive regularly as part of general maintenance. The 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: Drive Utilities Step 3: Click Run Drive Diagnostics. The Run Drive Diagnostics window opens: FreeAgent Pro Data Mover 32

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FreeAgent Pro Data Mover
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Utilities
The
Utilities
window allows you to run drive diagnostics and to adjust the drive sleep
interval and the drive lights on your FreeAgent™ drive.
Note:
The Utilities features are not available while your drive is connected via the eSATA port. To
run diagnostics, set sleep intervals, or adjust the drive lights, connect the drive through
either the USB or the 1394 ports. After adjustments have been made, the eSATA port will
reflect the lighting and sleep settings you specified using the USB or 1394 interface.
Running Drive Diagnostics
You should run a diagnostic on your on your FreeAgent drive regularly as part of general
maintenance. The 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:
Drive Utilities
Step 3:
Click
Run Drive Diagnostics
.
The
Run Drive Diagnostics
window opens: