WD800GD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800GD Western Digital Raptor 80GB 10000RPM SATA 7-Pin 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Western Digital WD800GD hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Western Digital WD800GD Technical Details:

• Manufacturer: Western Digital
• Manufacturer Website: www.wdc.com
• Manufacturer Part No: WD800GD-75FLC3
• Product Series or Family: Raptor
• Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
• Storage Capacity: 80GB
• Spindle Speed: 10000RPM
• Drive Interface: SATA 1.5Gbps
• Form Factor: 3.5Inch
• Cache: 8MB

Western Digital WD800GD Hard Drives:

• WD800GD-75FLC3, DCM HBCAJAB, Western Digital 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Western Digital WD800GD 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 WD800GD Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital WD800GD 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:
2060-701213-004, etc.

Multiple Model Number revisions:
WD800GD-75FLC3, etc.