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-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.