WD800AB Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. WD800AB-16CBA1 Western Digital Caviar 80GB 5400RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD800AB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD800AB Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Western Digital
  • Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: WD800AB
  • Product Series or Family: Caviar
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 80GB
  • Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
  • Drive Interface: IDE
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch
  • Cache: 2MB

Western Digital WD800AB Hard Drives:

WD800AB Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • WD800AB-00CBA1, DCM HSEHCT2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800ABJS-23TEA0, DCM HSCAYTJEH, Western Digital 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800ABJS-23TEA0, DCM HBBHNTJEH, Western Digital 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800AB-22CBA1, DCM HSEHNA2CH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800ABJS-23TEA0, DCM HBBHNTJCH, Western Digital 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800AB-22CBA1, DCM HSFHCV2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800AB-60CBA0, DCM HSEANQ2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • WD800AB-60CBA0, DCM HSFHNQ2AH, Western Digital 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD800AB 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 WD800AB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD800AB 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:
2060-701335-005, 2060-701335-003, 20600001092-006, 2060-001092-007, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD800AB-00CBA1, WD800ABJS-23TEA0, WD800AB-22CBA1, WD800AB-60CBA0, etc.