WD1600BB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD1600BB-00DUA3 Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM ATA-100 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD1600BB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD1600BB Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Western Digital
  • Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: WD1600BB
  • Product Series or Family: Caviar
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 160GB
  • Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
  • Drive Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch
  • Cache: 2MB

Western Digital WD1600BB Hard Drives:

WD1600BB Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD1600BB-56RDA0, DCM HSCHNTJCH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-56RDA0, DCM HBBHYTJCAN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-56RDA0, DCM HBCHYTJCHN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-22GUA0, DCM HSBHCTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-00GUC0, DCM HSBHNT2CH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-00RDA0, DCM HSBHNTJCA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-22GUA0, DCM DSBACTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-00HTA0, DCM HSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-56RDA0, DCM DBBANTJCAN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-98DWA0, DCM DSBHCTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-22RDA0, DCM HBCHNTJAHN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-22GUC0, DCM DSCACTJCA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-00FTA0, DCM HSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-22GUC0, DCM HSCANTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-00RDA0, DCM HSCHYT2AAN, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-98FTA0, DCM FSBACTJCA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-55GUC0, DCM HSBHNTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-56RDA0, DCM DSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-56RDA0, DCM DSCHNTJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-55RDA0, DCM HSBHCTJCH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-00DWA0, DCM HSCHCVJAH, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-00GUA0, DCM DSBHCTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-00GUC0, DCM HSCANTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-22GUA0, DCM HSBACTJAA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD1600BB-00FTA0, DCM HSBHCTJCA, Western Digital 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD1600BB 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 WD1600BB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD1600BB 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:
2060-701292-001, 2060-701266-001, 2060-001266-001, 2060-701292-002, 2060-001173-004, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD1600BB-22GUC0, WD1600BB-98FTA0, WD1600BB-55GUC0, WD1600BB-56RDA0, WD1600BB-55RDA0, WD1600BB-00DWA0, WD1600BB-50DWA0, WD1600BB-14GUC0, WD1600BB-00HTA0, WD1600BB-22RDA0, WD1600BB-00GUA0, WD1600BB-00FTA0, WD1600BB-22GUA0, WD1600BB-00RDA0, WD1600BB-98DWA0, WD1600BB-00GUC0, etc.