Erasing The Drive - Western Digital My Passport 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 . . .
Not locked,
Locked
AND you . . .
Want to erase the drive,
Have forgotten or lost your
password and must erase the
drive,
MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION
THEN see . . .
"Using the Drive Erase Function"
on page 53.
"Using Five Invalid Passwords"
on page 54
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