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Downloads:

6

Downloads of v 1.0.0.8:

6

Last Update:

27 Mar 2025

Published Date:

27 Mar 2025

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Western Digital

Tags:

wd-kitfox wd kitfox western digital hard-drive hdd sata freeware

Western Digital Kitfox

(Ready for review)

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1.0.0.8 | Updated: 27 Mar 2025

Downloads:

6

Downloads of v 1.0.0.8:

6

Published:

27 Mar 2025

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Western Digital

Western Digital Kitfox 1.0.0.8

(Ready for review)

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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All Checks are Passing

3 Passing Tests


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

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  • Until approved, you should consider this package version unsafe - it could do very bad things to your system (it probably doesn't but you have been warned, that's why we have moderation).
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sublym0nal (maintainer) on 27 Mar 2025 23:23:29 +00:00:

User 'sublym0nal' (maintainer) submitted package.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 27 Mar 2025 23:57:05 +00:00:

wd-kitfox has passed automated validation. It may have or may still fail other checks like testing (verification).
Congratulations! This package passed automatic validation review without flagging on any issues the validator currently checks. A human review could still turn up issues a computer may not easily find.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 28 Mar 2025 06:20:32 +00:00:

wd-kitfox has passed automated package testing (verification). The next step in the process is package scanning.
Please visit https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/f2c08b84162457f306bf058c4fa1c353 for details.
This is an FYI only. There is no action you need to take.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 28 Mar 2025 06:45:15 +00:00:

wd-kitfox has passed automated virus scanning.

Description

Western Digital Kitfox

Western Digital Kitfox is a desktop application for managing Western Digital SATA HDDs.

Western Digital Kitfox screenshot

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'"

tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$toolsDir = "$(Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"

$downloadArgs = @{
  packageName    = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
  unzipLocation  = $toolsDir
  url64bit       = 'https://downloads.wdc.com/wdapp/wd_kitfox.zip'
  checksum64     = '8851f7761b693f7fa903f0817acc467411c30872fca0fd224814d3cc0e86c2ad'
  checksumType64 = 'sha256'
}
Install-ChocolateyZipPackage @downloadArgs

$installerPath = Join-Path -Path $toolsDir -ChildPath 'Kitfox Installer.exe'
$installArgs = @{
  packageName    = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
  file64         = $installerPath
  fileType       = 'EXE'
  softwareName   = 'Kitfox'
  silentArgs     = "/VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP- /LOG=`"$($env:TEMP)\$($packageName).$($env:chocolateyPackageVersion).Install.log`""
  validExitCodes = @(0)
}
Install-ChocolateyInstallPackage @installArgs

#Remove extracted files post-install to prevent disk bloat
Remove-Item -Path $installerPath -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Remove-Item -Path "$(Join-Path -Path $toolsDir -ChildPath 'readme.txt')" -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

#If installer binary removal fails for some reason, try to prevent an installer shim from being generated
if (Test-Path -Path $installerPath) {
  Set-Content -Path "$installerPath.ignore" -Value $null -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}
tools\chocolateyuninstall.ps1
$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)" }
}

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