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.