WD3200BB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD3200BB Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 7200RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD3200BB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD3200BB Technical Details:

• Manufacturer: Western Digital
• Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
• Manufacturer Part No: WD3200BB-00KEA0
• Product Series or Family: Caviar
• Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
• Storage Capacity: 320GB
• Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
• Drive Interface: ATA/100
• Form Factor: 3.5Inch
• Cache: 2MB

Western Digital WD3200BB Hard Drives:

• WD3200BB-22KEA0, DCM HSCACAJCA, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200BB-22KEA0, DCM DSBACAJCA, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• WD3200BB-22KEA0, DCM DSCACAJCA, Western Digital 320GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD3200BB 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 WD3200BB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD3200BB 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:
2060-701314-002, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD3200BB-22KEA0, etc.