Western Digital Firmware Problems

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Data recovery from Western Digital drives with firmware corruption

Families: Typically, Western Digital Caviar models (WD...AB, WD...BB, WD...JB), where '...' are various numeric combinations eg.
WD400JB, WD800JB, WD1200JB, WD1600JB, WD2000JB, WD2500JB, WD3000JB, WD3200JB
WD200BB, WD400BB, WD800BB, WD1200BB, WD1600BB, WD200BB, WD2500BB
WD1600YS, WD2500YS, WD4000YS, or WD5000YS

Failure Symptoms: At power on the hard drive will often

Fail to be recognised by the PC BIOS when the computer is powered on
No obvious failure noises
An error message informing the user that the PC can not find the hard disk will then be generated and the system will halt.
If the computer identifies the drive as something similar to WDC ROM MODEL, then please visit our Western Digital WDC ROM MODEL data recovery page

Cause: An apparent firmware corruption is responisible for the failure of the hard drive. Frequently, Data Clinic are able to fully recover drives suffering from type of problem.

What if I have one of these drives but the symptoms are different?: This is quite possible, they are still prone to all the other problems hard disks suffer from ie. mechnical failure, logical failure, bad sectors etc. View further information on Western Digital hard disk failures.

What should I do?: Call the Data Clinic and talk your problem through with us on 0871 977 2525, or fill out our auto-form and we'll call you back

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Please note that all modern hard disk drives are manufactured to very high standards, fail infrequently and have very similar rates of reliability.

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