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Second of all, I'd suggest you find a backup drive or ask a friend to lend you one, so that you copy your data and make sure it's safe and sound somewhere off-site. Welcome to the TPU community, of all, apologies for my late reply! Thank you, & for letting me know about his issue. My Passport AV-TV, WD Elements Desktop, WD Caviar RAID Edition, WD Caviar Blue, WD Blue SSHD, WD Blue / SE / SE16 (SATA II / III), WD Blue, WD Green, WD Green / GP, WD Black SSHD, WD Black, WD Black2 Dual Drive, WD Red (Mobile), WD Red, WD Red Pro, WD Re+, WD RE / WD RE4, WD Se, WD Ae, WD Purple, WD AV-GP, WD VelociRaptor, WD AV, WD Protégé, WD Laptop Mainstream, WD Xe, WD Desktop Mainstream, WD Desktop Performance, WD S25 When the test completes, you will be notified with a pass/fail message.Select the test you wish to perform and click the Start button.VIEW TEST RESULT - displays the latest test results.WRITE ZEROS - writes zeros to the drive with options of Full Erase and Quick Erase.Test may take several hours to complete depending on the size of the drive. EXTENDED TEST - performs a Full Media Scan to detect bad sectors.QUICK TEST - performs SMART drive quick self-test to gather and verify the Data Lifeguard information contained on the drive.

When you select the run tests icon, the "DLGDIAG - Select an Option" window appears.

Highlight the drive and select the icon on the top row to test or run SMART status.

In the bottom window, the partition information for the selected drive will be displayed. The model number, serial number, capacity, and SMART status of each drive will be displayed. In the top window, you will see the drives in your system that are available for testing.

On the main program screen, there are two windows.

Read and accept the license agreement to continue.

If running Windows Vista (or later), you will need to Right-Click on the WinDlg.exe file and choose to Run As Administrator.

Extract and run the program, WinDlg.exe.

Download the Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics.

In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system. It will test WD internal and external drives. This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. You can use this WD tool to test the drive: In any event it will always show yellow, at best, going forward.

The extra stress of a long full format may show further weaknesses. So move your files and try a long format. That WD.AAKS is 10-15 years old? Relocated sector count is growing and sometimes there is a cascading effect that grows rapidly. Sometimes if you move your programs off the disk, then reformat the disk problems go away.