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Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics - WinDlg (DLGDIAG for Windows)
v1.31
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
WinDlg (DLGDIAG for Windows) is a GUI application that allows you to quickly and

efficiently verify the status of Western Digital drives. It reports each drive'
s
SMART Status and SMART Attribute values, allows you to run diagnostic tests (Qui
ck
Test and Extended Test), or erase operating systems and file systems on drives
(Write Zeros). If any drive errors are found, WinDlg provides an option to retu
rn
the drive to a defect-free state through its Extended Test repair option.
WinDlg runs on Windows 7 and above (including Win8.x and Win10).
Supported drive interfaces are: SATA, USB, FireWire, and SAS.

QUICK TEST:
The Quick Test can determine (in a short amount of time and with a high level of
confidence) whether a drive is defect-free. For maximum confidence, the Extende
d
Test is recommended. The Quick Test option may not be available on earlier ATA
drives, SCSI drives, and external drives.
The Quick Test checks a drive's SMART Status and performs a SMART Quick Drive
Self-Test if the drive supports the SMART feature. If the drive does not suppor
t
the SMART feature, a partial disk scan is performed instead of a SMART Quick Dri
ve
Self-Test. In this case, the scan reads 10% from the drive's OD (Outer Diameter
)
zone and 10% from the ID (Inner Diameter) zone. I/O operations are confined to
the first and last 2 million sectors in the ID and OD to limit the amount of tim
e
that this operation requires on large capacity drives.

EXTENDED TEST:
Typically, the Extended Test runs anywhere from 30 minutes to many hours to test
one drive. Larger drives take longer to test; system performance also affects
the test time. If a bad sector is detected, this test may stop responding for a
few minutes before it continues. By default, the Extended Test is non-destructi
ve.
This test is destructive only when you select the repair option after bad sector
s
are detected.
The Extended Test scans the entire disk media from LBA #0 to the maximum LBA. I
f
a bad sector is detected, you are prompted to repair it. If you choose to repai
r
the sector, WinDlg writes zeroes to the bad sector; this causes the drive firmwa
re
to relocate the bad sector and return the sector to a defect-free state.

ERASE:
Erasing data renders the data inaccessible. This option can be used to erase
operating systems and file systems. QUICK ERASE erases the first and last 10%
of a drive's sectors or the first and last 1 million sectors (whichever is small
er).
FULL ERASE erases the entire drive and may take hours to complete (depending
on drive capacity and system performance).

VIEW TEST RESULT:

This function displays recent test results.

TO RUN THE PROGRAM:

BACK UP DATA:
Before you run WinDlg, it is
l
drives. WinDlg may write to
Extended Test for details).
recommended that you back up
highly recommended that you back up all data for al
the drive during the Extended Test (refer to the
As with all utilities that write to a drive, it is
your data before proceeding.
TO TEST EACH DRIVE:
Double click on one of the physical drives in the list to display the test menu.
You can also right-click on a physical drive and select Run Diagnostics to displ
ay
the test menu. Select a test and click the Start button to start the test. Whe
n
the test completes, a status is displayed. For the Extended Test, if bad sector
s
are detected, a repair option allows you to fix any correctable errors. However
,
when you choose this repair option, data stored in the bad sectors will be lost;
thus, this function must be used with extreme caution.
WD provides a DOS version of DLGDIAG (called DOSDLG) which can be downloaded fro
m
WD's web site and used to repair certain errors that cannot be corrected in the
Windows environment.

SMART STATUS:
Each drive's SMART Status is queried and displayed when you run WinDlg. The SMA
RT
Status can be PASS, FAIL, or Not Available. Right-click on a physical drive and
select Show SMART Drive Info or double click a physical drive's SMART Status col
umn
to view that drive's SMART Attribute values. Some drives (e.g., SAS - Serial
Attached SCSI) do not return SMART data, so "Not Available" will be displayed in
the SMART Status column (this is expected and is not an error).

INSTALLATION:
You can run WinDlg directly without installing it. However, you can run WinDlg'
s
Setup program (setup.exe) if you want to create a Programs menu item, a desktop
icon, and a Quick Launch icon for WinDlg. Running WinDlg's Setup program requir
es
elevation (i.e., administrative privilege). Starting with Windows Vista, Micros
oft
changed Windows such that all processes run with the least user privileges possi
ble,
so you may need to follow the steps shown below.
Here is one way to run WinDlg s Setup program with administrative privilege:
-Open Windows Explorer.
-Navigate to the directory where WinDlg's Setup program (setup.exe) is located.
-Right click setup.exe and select "Run as administrator".
-Follow the Setup program prompts.

REMOVAL:
If you attempt to uninstall WinDlg while WinDlg is running, WinDlg.exe (the WinD
lg
executable file) will not be deleted from its installation directory. In this
case, delete WinDlg.exe from its installation directory before you install a new
version of WinDlg.

KNOWN LIMITATIONS:
On Windows Vista and later releases of Windows (like Win7, Win8 and Win8.1), the
ERASE test may fail on drives that have partitions. In this case, you will
see an ERASE error message box with an error message that looks like this:
Sector #2048-2304::Erase error! Continue?
Run the ERASE test again and it should succeed.
On Windows Vista and later releases of Windows (like Win7, Win8 and Win8.1),
repairing bad sectors may fail on drives that have partitions. In this case, yo
u
will see an error message box with an error message that looks like this:
Unable to repair bad sectors.
This error occurs because Windows Vista (and later releases) prevents software
tools from writing data to a drive that has a partition when the write operation

is not performed through the file system. This protects the integrity of file
system data. You may need to run WinDlg on an earlier version of Windows (like
Windows XP) or you may need to run DOS utility DOSDLG (v5.22 or later) to repair
bad sectors.

ERROR CODES:
WinDlg can return the following error codes:
1 = SMART Return Status failure
2 = SMART attribute over threshold
3 = SMART attribute read failure
4 = Open drive failure
5 = Diagnostic Self-Test (DST) not supported
6 = SMART Diagnostic Self-Test (DST) failure
7 = SMART offline command failure
8 = Read sector failure
9 = Write sector failure
10 = Set file pointer error
11 = Cable test failed
12 = Too many bad sectors detected
13 = Failed to repair sector
14 = Test suspended
15 = Read diagnostics sector error
16 = Random read error
17 = Erase SSD failure
18 = Read Verify Sector Ext error
19 = SMART Enable operation failure
20 = Failed to delete partitions
21 = ATA Data Set Management to trim device has failed
22 = Drive does not support Sanitize Device
23 = Sanitize Device Status command failure
24 = Sanitize Device Overwrite command failure
25 = Sanitize Device command is already in progress