WD1200BB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD1200BB Western Digital Caviar 120GB 7200RPM EIDE 40-Pin 2MB Cache Dma/ATA-100 (ultra) 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.
All information about the Western Digital WD1200BB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Western Digital WD1200BB Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: WDC WD1200BB
- Disk Family: Caviar
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 21 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 600 grams (1.32 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital WD1200BB Hard Drives:
- WD1200BB-00CAA1, DCM HSFACV2AA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-53DWA0, DCM HSBANTJCH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00CJA0, DCM HSEANA2AA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00RDA0, DCM HSBHCT2CH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00CAA1, DCM HSEHNV2AA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00CAA0, DCM HSEHNA2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00CAA1, DCM HSEACV2AA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-98DWA0, DCM HSBHCVJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-22CAA1, DCM HSEHNA2CH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00FTA0, DCM HSBACVJAH, Western Digital 120GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-22FTA0, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00DWA0, DCM HSCACVJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00RDA0, DCM DSBANT2CH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00FTA0, DCM HSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00RDA0, DCM HSCANTJAA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00GUA0, DCM DSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-22RDA0, DCM HSCHYTJCA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00RDA0, DCM DSCANTJCA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00RDA0, DCM DSBHNTJCH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00CAA0, DCM HSEHNQ2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00RDA0, DCM HSBHNTJCA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-16DWA0, DCM DSCHCVJAA, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-22GUC0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-00GUC0, DCM DSBANTJAH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- WD1200BB-60CJA1, DCM DSFHNA2AH, Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Western Digital WD1200BB 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 WD1200BB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1200BB 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:
2060-001102-003, 2060-701266-001, 2060-001265-001, 2060-701292-001, 2060-001173-004, 2060-001092-007, 2060-701292-002, 2060-001128-005, etc.
Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1200BB-00CJA0, WD1200BB-98DWA0, WD1200BB-00DWA0, WD1200BB-00GUA0, WD1200BB-00CAA0, WD1200BB-00RDA0, WD1200BB-16DWA0, WD1200BB-22GUC0, WD1200BB-00GUC0, WD1200BB-60CJA1, WD1200BB-22DAA0, WD1200BB-53DWA0, WD1200BB-16DAA0, WD1200BB-53CAA0, WD1200BB-22FTA0, WD1200BB-60CJA0, WD1200BB-00FTA0, WD1200BB-22CAA1, WD1200BB-00CAA1, WD1200BB-22RDA0, WD1200BB-00DAA3, etc.