Western Digital WD1200UE Data Recovery

We perform hard drive recovery for the WD Scorpio WD1200UE – Hard drive – 120 GB – internal – 2.5" – ATA-100 – 5400 rpm – buffer: 2 MB. You can see our up-to-date prices on our home page.

Western Digital WD1200UE

Issues Specific to Western Digital WD1200UE

There are no data recovery issues specific to Western Digital WD1200UE, but check below for anyproblems specific to Western Digital and faults that can appear on all drives with moving parts. Users rated this hard drive at 4 marks out of 5.

Typical Western Digital Hard Drive Problems

Western Digital have shipped a vast volume of hard drives, which are typically extremely reliable. All hard drives will fail at some point, whether by wear and tear, accidental damage, or some systematic problem due to unique or family-wide errors in firmware or hard drive assembly.

Western Digital drives generally fail due to issues common to all hard drives:

Issues Common to All Hard Drives

All hard drives with platters are prone to the following problems:

impacted read-heads

weak or damaged sectors

platter-damage

bearing failure

PCB damage

firmware damage

component failure from overheating

About Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation (often abbreviated to WD) is the world’s second largest hard disk drive manufacturer, after Seagate. It has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and as a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23 1970 by Alvin B. Phillips. You can see Western Digital’s support and warranty page here, but be warned: their warranty does not include data recovery.