Western Digital Hard Disk Failure and Recovery

Western Digital Hard Disks are available for different desktops and portable devices. These disks come shipped with SATA, SCSI and IDE interfaces. Different hard drive families are MOMMOTH, SABRE, HAWK, SCORPIO and BUCCANEER. At times, you observe that the system that is installed with a Western Digital disk fails to detect it.

BIOS no longer recognizes it, you come across failure error messages, you observe typical scratching and grinding noises from disk or the drive appears to be completely dead. In such situations, it is required that you immediately replace the disk as it might be physically damaged and consult Hard Disk Recovery technicians to extract lost data manually.

For example, when you try to start the computer installed with a Western Digital disk, you might fail to do so with the following error:

"WDC ROM MODEL--"

Here, ' disk family name' denotes the name of Western Digital hard drive family.

Cause

Such errors are the general indicative of physical disk failure. You receive this error in BIOS screen that is generated by PCB controller board when it cannot detect the it healthy. Few possible causes for such behavior are:

1.Hard disk ROM is corrupted
2.Corruption of one or more firmware modules
3.One of more read/write heads are faulty

Solution

You need to follow these steps in order to recover from the failure:

1.Power down the system as soon as possible
2.Detach the drive from the system
3.Install a new disk
4.Pack the failed disk in anti-static and anti-shock material and send it to a reliable company providing Data Recovery Services

A Hard Disk Recovery company aim at repairing and recovering all possible data from a physically crashed drive. Using proprietary tools and advanced recovery techniques, these companies are competent to recover from hard drive failure in all cases. The general methods used are examining the failed drive in Clean Rooms, determining the odds of recovery and nature of problem, repairing or replacing damaged internals and so forth.

Paul Harry has 6 Years of Experience in the Software Technology field working as a freelancer with Stellar which offers Hard Disk Recovery, Data Recovery, Laptop Hard Disk Recovery for more than 10 years.

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