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Last Update:
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Published Date:
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Software Author(s):
- Western Digital
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Western Digital Kitfox
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1.0.0.8 | Updated: 27 Mar 2025
- Software Specific:
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- Package outdated?
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- Contact Maintainers
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Downloads:
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Downloads of v 1.0.0.8:
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Published:
27 Mar 2025
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Western Digital
Western Digital Kitfox 1.0.0.8
(Ready for review)
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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.
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packageName = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
softwareName = 'Kitfox'
fileType = 'EXE'
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}
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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.