Your WD hard drive data may get deleted or lost due to various reasons and few possible causes are explained in the below section. When data is lost from the WD drive, the only method to restore is to perform Western Digital data recovery. Though Western Digital hard drives have undeniable features for storage, they are still susceptible to data loss. WD Hard disk offers both high performance and high-quality storage.
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If you experience any of the symptoms described above with your Western Digital WD2000 please feel free to contact us to get upfront quote on data recovery from your failed drive. That's usually the only way to retrieve as much files as possible from such sectors. In our lab we use special imaging hardware tools that are capable of reading raw sector data ignoring low level checksum check. Any further reading attempts would just add up to the problems and could make your data unrecoverable. All this leads to further damage to the surface, heads and causes more data loss. Usually on boot up you would get "SMART failure predicted" or some other SMART-related error. When the drive starts reading data from such unreadable bad sector it could start freezing, scratching and sometimes even clicking. After some period of time magnetic media the platters are covered with starts to degrade and magnetic domains can't turn in the desired direction by writing element of the head. There is one more problem that is typical for all Western Digital drives: bad sectors. Don't attempt to open the drive by yourself - you will damage the platters and this will make your data unrecoverable. Immediately after the motor stops spinning they stick to the ideally smooth surface and it becomes impossible to free them without proper tools and experience. Heads are normally parked on the parking ramp outside of the platters, but sometimes after a fall or abnormal termination they fail to return to their regular parking position and are left on the surface. Luckily, it is not usually necessary to open the HDD in clean room and order donor drives, so chances of successful data retrieval are close to 100%.Īnother quite common symptom Western Digital drives experience is clicking/knocking/clunking/sweeping noise. It is quite a complicated job and requires use of specialized expensive equipment and deep knowledge of hard drive design and data recovery technology to repair the firmware. Insert system disk and press enter", "Hard drive not recognized", "Drive Mount Failure" or some other hard drive boot error.Īt the moment it is not possible to fix this kind of problem at home. Capable But Command Failed" or "Disk boot failure. If you attempt to boot up from such drive or read any data from it you would get "Primary Master Hard Disk Fail" or "No operating system found" or "USB Device malfunctioned" error or "S.M.A.R.T.
Main part of firmware is stored on the platters in so-called Service Area. Linux dd command could not finish copying either.Īll Western Digital hard drives are also well-known for their firmware problems.įirmware of the drive is not located on the logic board as most people think. TestDisk/PhotoRec could not finish reading. Tried dos util "HDD regenerator", still cant read. The more i tried to read the disk, the more scratchy sounds it made and less responsive my computers became. On my Western Digital, p/n: WD2000 bad sectors developed.