Western Digital WD800BBDTL Data Recovery

We perform hard drive recovery for the Western Digital CAVIAR 80GB ATA/100-HD 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (WD800BBDTL). See our up-to-date data recovery price-list here.

Western Digital WD800BBDTL

Issues Specific to Western Digital WD800BBDTL

There are no data recovery issues unique to Western Digital WD800BBDTL, but check below for problems 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 manufactured a vast volume of hard drives, which are typically extremely reliable. You should note that all hard drives will fail at some point, whether by wear and tear, mishandling, or some systematic issue 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:

distorted read-heads

weakly magnetised or bad sectors

platter-scraping

spindle failure

PCB electrical damage

firmware corruption

component damage 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 thenas 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.