i have a couple of WD 2TB Red drives that i want to do extended tests on. The program tells me to close all programs that have files open on the drive being tested. But is it ok to still have Windows Explorer running? as i still want to be able to do other things while the test is being run… est time to do the test is about 3hr 40m. was expecting longer as it took longer than that to do a full format.
Hi there and welcome to the WD community.
It is recommended to let the software do the test without any other application open, but you can use the computer normally, although this can make the process take longer.
