Question Western Digital DashBoard Tool

[CakeEater]

Hello, I have a new WD Elements portable HDD and I'd like to be able to access do a diagnostic tool to fix eventual future issues. There is the WS Dashport tool, but it's only for Windows and I own an iMac. If I formatted my disk on ExFAT would I be able to access the dashboard from my Windows partition? (I use Bootcamp).
And if yes, do you think it would be worth it formatting it on Exfat just to access the dashboard? Thanks

 

[Lafong]

I have some minor experience with WD Dashboard and was not impressed.

Not sure at all that I would go to great lengths to use it.

If you are quite experienced with the nuances of Windows on a Mac and can easily recover from a bad move, maybe you take a chance.

It might be necessary to use it to update the drive firmware, but that isn't necessarily a requirement either.

There are other tools that can do most of what it can do.