Doing so may damage the hard drive beyond repair and your data may be lost. It may take up to two minutes to update the firmware of the hard drive.Ĭritical: Please make sure that the computer system is not turned off during the firmware upgrade. The software will scan the Serial ATA bus and automatically update the hard drive that is connected and recognized.Run the file by typing wdidle3.exe at the command prompt and press enter.Boot the system with the hard drive to be updated to the medium where the update file was extracted to.Extract wdidle3.exe onto a bootable medium (floppy, CD-RW, network drive, etc.).Download the wdidle3_1_05 file containing the firmware for the update.Important: Please ensure that any important data is backed up from the hard drive and that the drive is removed from the RAID array (the array is offline) before updating the firmware.
