Western Digital Utility Software

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Current Utilities

Note: EZ-Drive, WDDiag, WDATA66, and WDTblchk programs, these utilities have been replaced with our new Data Lifeguard Tools software. Data Lifeguard Tools is a software suite that combines all of our EIDE drive installation and management utilities into one easy to use program. The utilities are also available separately

• Data LifeGuard - A tool that partitions and formats a western digital hard drive in preparation for installing the operating system. Usefull for older computers that normally would not be able to partition a hard drive past the typical motherboard/BIOS limitations of 2GB, 8GB, 32G and others. This tool is used instead of the usual method of using the Fdisk and format commands to prepare the hard drive.
  • Version 2.8
    - has a limit of 137GB
    - for win95/98/ME
    
  • version 10 - 
    - win95/98/2000/ME/XP
    - and can format drivers larger then 137GB.
    - Drive to Drive copy capability with new NTFS support
    - Certified to work on all current WD drives (model numbers starting with "WD")

Older Utilities

• EZ-Drive - Automatically partition and format Western Digital EIDE hard drives. Allows a drive to be larger than 2GB (replaced by data lifeguard)

• 32-Bit Pack - This file contains the Caviar.exe utility which allows you to configure our 32-bit Fastdisk driver, Wdcdrv.386 under Windows 3.1x. It also has Getcmos.exe, for Int13h, Int41h and Int46h values. Findhook.exe utility will inspect the low-level Int13h address, Wdtblchk.exe to verify BIOS translation and the 32-bit disk access driver, Wdcdrv.386.
• ASPIMenu.exe - a generic interactive command interface to any SCSI hard drive
• Dmpatch.exe - Disk Manager drivers for Windows 95, Windows NT v3.5x, OS/2 2.1x and OS/2 Warp
• EZ-Mem - use when experiencing memory issues with EZ-Drive
• Fhook.exe - utility to inspect low level Int13h address, in case of another driver conflicting with Wdcdrv.386 when running Windows 3.1x.
• Getcmos.exe - A basic version of Tablechk.exe which displays Int13h, Int41h and Int46h information in the system BIOS
• Overlay.exe - A firmware upgrade for certain WD Caviar hard drives in systems with certain AsusTek motherboards and Award BIOS
• Overlay4.exe - A firmware update for WD Caviar models AC11200, AC22000, AC22500, AC33200, AC34000, AC34300, and AC35100
• Tablechk.exe - reports number of drives physically detected, number of drives accessed by the BIOS and additional drive table information
• WDBench.exe - a MS Windows-based application that uses ASPI to provide support and utility functions for Western Digital SCSI hard drives
• Wdatide.exe - A drive defect manager for older WD Caviar hard drives (AC140, AC160, AC280, AC2120, AC2170, AC2200). This utility scans the media and remaps any grown defects. It also provides drive serial number and performance data such as seek times and data access times.
• WDATA-66 - used to enable and disable Ultra ATA-66 on Western Digital EIDE drives that support feature  (replaced by data lifeguard)
• Wddiag.exe - Test drives, low level format, repair errors (replaced by data lifeguard)
• Wdfmtp.exe - This utility is used to low-level format older non-IDE Western Digital hard drives.
• WDScan.exe - a MS Windows-based application that uses ASPI to provide a graphic representation of peripherals connected to the SCSI architecture
• Win31.exe - a program packed with utilities and drivers such as DMA drivers for Windows 3.1x, Western Digital's fast disk driver, Wdcdrv.386 v2.6, for use in Windows 3.1x

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