These are some real problems experienced by WD1600U017 and Western Digital hard drives in general that we see in our lab. We are not affiliated in any way with hard drive manufacturers. All the information below is based solely on our experience and we do not make any claims regarding reliability of the specific model. We see mostly failed drives in our lab and therefore we don't have complete statistics.
My drive Western Digital(model WD1600U017) just crashed. It attempts to boot but clicks and then shuts down 2 times.
Ty H.
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Apr 13, 2010 I have a WD Passport external hard drive (MDL: WD600U017-001, S/N: WXE806530709). It has been malfunctioning for the last two days. When I plug it into my computer USB port, I hear a beeping sound coming from the device for about 10 seconds and I. The Lexmark Universal Print Driver provide users and administrators with a standardized, one-driver solution for their printing needs. Instead of installing and managing individual drivers for each printer model, administrators can install the Lexmark Universal Print Driver for use with a variety of both mono and color laser printers and multi-function devices.
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Western Digital(WD) hard drives experience is burnt cuircuit board(PCB). WD drives are very vulnerable to overheating, power surges and streaks. Quite often bad power supply unit combined with power streak is usually enough to fry spindle driver chip on the electronics and make the data inaccessible. Should this occur the computer would reboot or shut down completely, you would normally notice acrid smell of smoke coming from your PC and when powered on the drive would not spin up at all and appear to be completely dead.
If this is the case you can try to swap PCB from another WD drive of the same model but your chances of success are close to zero, especially on newer hard drives. The problem is that logic board on modern hard drive is adapted to the head disk assembly it was manufactured with. In our lab we use specialized software and hardware to rebuild these parameters or transfer them from fried board to make donor PCB fully compatible with damaged drive.Dead drive-will not spin up. PCB heats up. There was a power spike at night. Please help! Western Digital
Lucas A
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
All Western Digital hard drives are also well-known for their firmware problems.
Firmware of the drive is not located on the logic board as most people think. Main part of firmware is stored on the platters in so-called Service Area. Service Area occupies the negative cylinders of the surface and contains a number of firmware modules. If one of the modules gets corrupted the hard drive fails to initialize correctly and stops working making the data inaccessible. In such case the drive usually spins up fine, it doesn't click but has one of the following symptoms:
Firmware of the drive is not located on the logic board as most people think. Main part of firmware is stored on the platters in so-called Service Area. Service Area occupies the negative cylinders of the surface and contains a number of firmware modules. If one of the modules gets corrupted the hard drive fails to initialize correctly and stops working making the data inaccessible. In such case the drive usually spins up fine, it doesn't click but has one of the following symptoms:
- it is not found in BIOS at all
- identifies with its factory alias(for example WDC ROM MODEL-MAMMOTH---,WDC ROM MODEL-HAWK---),
- shows up with wrong S/N (for example WDC-ROM SN# XYZ---) or capacity,
- identifies fine but fails to read any data or boot up operating system giving I/O device errors whenever you try to access LBA sectors.
At the moment it is not possible to fix this kind of problem at home. 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. 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%.
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Another quite common symptom Western Digital drives experience is clicking/knocking/clunking/sweeping noise.
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The drive spins up, and and the heads start clicking with a constant or intermittent sound while unsuccessfully trying to locate firmware zone: , , , . Usually this is a sign of damaged or crashed heads and it means the drive needs to be opened in a class 100 clean room environment in order to replace head stack assembly. Don't try to open the drive by yourself - you could damage the platters making your data unrecoverable.The drive in question is WD1600U017(by Western Digital). The computer now wouldn't boot. Not even a BIOS screen. Suspect power fluctuation. Removed the hard drive and hooked it to another computer via a SATA to USB connector and the hard drive spins up and I get two drive letters to display, but no contents. No clicking or other abnormal sounds. Just no data.
Olivia D.
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Western Digital drives also have common problem with spindle seizure. Usually this occurs after a fall and the drive either doesn't spin up at all with a siren sound: or starts up with loud noise unable to gain enough rotational speed: . Data recovery in such case involves removing platters from the hard drive in clean room environment and putting them into matching donor. This complex and precise procedure requires a lot of experience and use of specialized hardware to maintain platters in perfect alignment.
WD laptop drives(Scorpio, UE,VE series) share some typical 2.5 inch HDD problems. One of them is heads sticktion to the platter surface.
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. 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. Don't attempt to open the drive by yourself - you will damage the platters and this will make your data unrecoverable. There is one more problem that is typical for all Western Digital drives: bad sectors. 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. This is how bad sectors appear.
When the drive starts reading data from such unreadable bad sector it could start freezing, scratching and sometimes even clicking: . Usually on boot up you would get 'SMART failure predicted' or some other SMART-related error. All this leads to further damage to the surface, heads and causes more data loss. Any further reading attempts would just add up to the problems and could make your data unrecoverable. In our lab we use special imaging hardware tools that are capable of reading raw sector data ignoring low level checksum check. That's usually the only way to retrieve as much files as possible from such sectors.
When the drive starts reading data from such unreadable bad sector it could start freezing, scratching and sometimes even clicking: . Usually on boot up you would get 'SMART failure predicted' or some other SMART-related error. All this leads to further damage to the surface, heads and causes more data loss. Any further reading attempts would just add up to the problems and could make your data unrecoverable. In our lab we use special imaging hardware tools that are capable of reading raw sector data ignoring low level checksum check. That's usually the only way to retrieve as much files as possible from such sectors.
If you experience any of the symptoms described above with your Western Digital WD1600U017 please feel free to contact us to get upfront quote on data recovery from your failed drive.
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If you hear your Western Digital hard drive making some other unusual noises visit our Hard Drive Sounds page for more examples.
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- Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows
- File Size: 606 KB
Version: v1.37
Release Date: 2/27/2020|Release NotesDescription
This is a Windows version of the Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. It will test WD internal and external drives. In additional, it can provide you with the model and serial of WD drives attached to the system.Supported Operating Systems
- Windows 10
- Windows 8 32/64-bit versions
- Windows 7 32/64-bit versions
- Windows Vista 32/64 bit versions
- Windows XP 32/64-bit versions
Instructions
- Download the Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics, WinDlg_vx_xx.zip
- Extract and run the program, WinDlg_vx_xx.exe. If running Windows Vista (or later), you will need to Right-Click on the WinDlg_vx_xx.exe file and choose to Run As Administrator.
- Read and accept the license agreement to continue.
- On the main program screen, there are two windows. In the top window, you will see the drives in your system that are available for testing. The model number, serial number, capacity, and SMART status of each drive will be displayed. In the bottom window, the partition information for the selected drive will be displayed.
- Highlight the drive and select the icon on the top row to test or run SMART status.
- When you select the run tests icon, the 'DLGDIAG - Select an Option' window appears.
- You will see the following options:
- QUICK TEST - performs SMART drive quick self-test to gather and verify the Data Lifeguard information contained on the drive.
- EXTENDED TEST - performs a Full Media Scan to detect bad sectors. Test may take several hours to complete depending on the size of the drive.
- ERASE - writes zeros to the drive with options of Full Erase and Quick Erase. File system and data will be lost.
- VIEW TEST RESULT - displays the latest test results.
- Select the test you wish to perform and click the Start button.
- When the test completes, you will be notified with a pass/fail message. Click the Close button.
- External USB/FireWire Fat32 Formatting Utility
- File Size: 550 KB
Version: Version 2.0
Release Date: September, 2008Description
This utility will format a Western Digital external USB or FireWire hard drive back to it's original FAT32 partition and format.Instructions
- Download the ExtFat32_vs2.00.zip file to your desktop.
- Use an extraction utility such as WinZip to extract the files.
- If you already have an older version of WD FAT32 Formatter installed on your system, you will need to remove it first. If you don't, go to step 6.
- Using Windows Add or Remove Programs found in the Control Panel, remove the older version of ExtFAT32 Formatter.
- Once you've removed the old version, double-click on the DeleteBinFilesFromSystem32 program (found in the new FAT32 Formatter folder). This will remove all WDxxxx.bin files from the C:WINDOWSsystem32 directory.
- Next, double-click on the ExtFAT32v2.0.msi file to install the new WD FAT32 Formatter version 2.0 on your system.
- The new WD FAT32 Formatter v2.0 will copy all the new WDxxxx.bin files to the C:Program FilesWestern Digital CorpWD FAT32 FormatterImages folder.
- Once the install process is finished, the WD FAT32 Formatter will put a program icon on the desktop that you can double-click on, and start the format process.
Important: Make sure to back up any important data on the drive. Otherwise, it will be deleted.
Model No | Interface | Rotational Speed | Capacity | Compatibility |
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WDXML800UE | USB 2.0 | 5,400 RPM (nominal) | 80 GB | Windows/Mac |
WDXML400UE | USB 2.0 | 5,400 RPM (nominal) | 40 GB | Windows/Mac |
WDXML600UE | USB 2.0 | 5,400 RPM (nominal) | 60 GB | Windows/Mac |
WDXML1200UE | USB 2.0 | 5,400 RPM (nominal) | 120 GB | Windows/Mac |