Western Digital WD1600AAKX

Western Digital WD1600AAKX Hard Drives:

• WD1600AAKX-00U6AA0, DCM EHNNHTJCH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD1600AAKX-00U6AA0, DCM HHRNKTJCH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD1600AAKX-00U6AA0, DCM HGRNHTJAG, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD1600AAKX-00U6AA0, DCM HARNHT2CH, Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1600AAKX 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 WD1600AAKX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600AAKX 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:
2060-771640-003, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600AAKX-00U6AA0, etc.