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 Western Digital 120GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • 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.