Downloads:
37
Downloads of v 1.0.0.8:
37
Last Update:
27 Mar 2025
Package Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Western Digital
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- Contact Maintainers
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Western Digital Kitfox
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1.0.0.8 | Updated: 27 Mar 2025
- Software Specific:
- Software Site
- Software License
- Software Mailing List
- Package Specific:
- Package Source
- Package outdated?
- Package broken?
- Contact Maintainers
- Contact Site Admins
- Software Vendor?
- Report Abuse
- Download
Downloads:
37
Downloads of v 1.0.0.8:
37
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Western Digital
Western Digital Kitfox 1.0.0.8
Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Western Digital. The inclusion of Western Digital trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Western Digital goods or services and not for commercial purposes.
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3 Passing Tests
Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall
To install Western Digital Kitfox, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To upgrade Western Digital Kitfox, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To uninstall Western Digital Kitfox, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
Deployment Method:
This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.
1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url
(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)
2. Setup Your Environment
1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment
Please see the organizational deployment guide
2. Get the package into your environment
Option 1: Cached Package (Unreliable, Requires Internet - Same As Community)-
Open Source or Commercial:
- Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
- You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download
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Open Source
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Download the package:
Download - Follow manual internalization instructions
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Package Internalizer (C4B)
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Run: (additional options)
choco download wd-kitfox --internalize --source=https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/
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For package and dependencies run:
choco push --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'"
- Automate package internalization
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Run: (additional options)
3. Copy Your Script
choco upgrade wd-kitfox -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]
See options you can pass to upgrade.
See best practices for scripting.
Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.
If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:
choco upgrade wd-kitfox -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
Exit 0
}
Exit $exitCode
- name: Install wd-kitfox
win_chocolatey:
name: wd-kitfox
version: '1.0.0.8'
source: INTERNAL REPO URL
state: present
See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.
chocolatey_package 'wd-kitfox' do
action :install
source 'INTERNAL REPO URL'
version '1.0.0.8'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
cChocoPackageInstaller wd-kitfox
{
Name = "wd-kitfox"
Version = "1.0.0.8"
Source = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'wd-kitfox':
ensure => '1.0.0.8',
provider => 'chocolatey',
source => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}
Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.
4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation
See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.
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This package was approved by moderator TheCakeIsNaOH on 08 Apr 2025.
Western Digital Kitfox
Western Digital Kitfox is a desktop application for managing Western Digital SATA HDDs.
Features
- Health calculation for the device, considering multiple health indicators from the drive such as those provided by SMART.
- Support for execution of Short and Extended diagnostics, for a more in-depth check of drive health.
- Multiple erase options, such as short and long overwrites, sanitize, ATA secure erase, and PSID revert.
- Easily searchable tables of various drive data logs, such as the Identify Device data block.
- Device temperature monitoring.
- View key device information such as model, serial number, device speed, and security state.
- Quick view of disk space and volume usage.
- Device alerts for device health, diagnostics, and erase status.
- Support for 17 different languages.
Package Notes
Western Digital does not provide a versioned download URL. This means the installer binary's checksum will periodically change, and a newly released software version will break this package version. Consequently, FOSS users should generally consider older package versions to be obsolete and unsupported. Obsolete package versions may be unlisted if the Chocolatey CDN has not cached the download before obsoletion.
Consider internalizing this package if you require a stable binary, or the ability to install this specific version after a new version is released.
The installer executed by this package was built using Inno Setup. For advanced setup scenarios, refer to Inno Setup's command-line interface documentation. Any desired arguments can be appended to (or optionally overriding with the --override-arguments
switch) the package's default install arguments with the --install-arguments
option.
Installer-specific details (e.g. Setup configuration and supported Languages, Components, and Tasks) can be found in the Inno Setup Script file, which has been extracted using a fork of Inno Setup Unpacker and reuploaded for quick reference.
For future upgrade operations, consider opting into Chocolatey's useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades
feature to avoid having to pass the same arguments with each upgrade:
choco feature enable --name="'useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades'"
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$packageArgs = @{
packageName = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
softwareName = 'Kitfox'
fileType = 'EXE'
silentArgs = "/VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP- /LOG=`"$($env:TEMP)\$($packageName).$($env:chocolateyPackageVersion).Uninstall.log`""
validExitCodes = @(0)
}
[array] $keys = Get-UninstallRegistryKey -SoftwareName $packageArgs['softwareName']
if ($keys.Count -eq 1) {
$keys | ForEach-Object {
$packageArgs['file'] = "$($_.UninstallString)"
Uninstall-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs
}
}
elseif ($keys.Count -eq 0) {
Write-Warning "$env:ChocolateyPackageName has already been uninstalled by other means."
}
elseif ($keys.Count -gt 1) {
Write-Warning "$($keys.Count) matches found!"
Write-Warning 'To prevent accidental data loss, no programs will be uninstalled.'
Write-Warning 'Please alert package maintainer the following keys were matched:'
$keys | ForEach-Object { Write-Warning "- $($_.DisplayName)" }
}
Log in or click on link to see number of positives.
- wd-kitfox.1.0.0.8.nupkg (074c42f887d8) - ## / 67
- wd_kitfox.zip (8851f7761b69) - ## / 65
In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).
Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.
Copyright (C) 2025 Western Digital. All rights reserved.
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