WD1200VE Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD1200VE Western Digital Scorpio 120GB 5400RPM EIDE 44-Pin Laptop 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1200VE hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1200VE Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1200VE
  • Disk Family: Scorpio
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/133
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 133 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12.0 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 21.0 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 117 grams (0.26 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.0 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.1 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.1 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 500 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.5 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 2.0 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.23 W
  • Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital WD1200VE Hard Drives:

WD1200VE Western Digital 120GB IDE 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

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Western Digital WD1200VE Failure Symptoms:

  • Electrical Failure Symptoms:
    Drive is powered, but shows no sign of function;
    Disk knocking as the motor fails to spin;
    Clicking sound as the heads search or initialize;
  • Mechanical Failure Symptoms:
    Clicking, grinding sounds;
    Completely quiet due to ” motor freeze”;
    “music” tone as the disk is powered up;
  • Logical Failure Examples:
    Accidental deletion, accidental format, file corruption, software bugs, file system corruption, viruses and malware, and many, many more.
  • Firmware Failure Symptoms:
    drive powers up, but is not recognised by the computer;
    Drive powers up, but is recognised wrongly, sometimes with nonsensical characters;
    Drive freezes during booting up;
  • Bad Platter Area Symptoms:
    Hard disk still accessible but appear to “hang” or “sluggish”;
    Constant Cyclic Redundancy (CRC) errors;
    Unable to access folders or files which could be seen;
  • Complex Failure Model

Western Digital WD1200VE Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1200VE Hard Disk Drive experience is burnt circuit board(PCB). So if you will need to match a replacement PCB, it is important that you note the “Board Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.

Multiple PCB Number revisions:
2060-701402-002, 2060-701402-001, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1200VE-22KWT0, WD1200VE-00KWT0, etc.