The editor of a large paper in Fife, Scotland contacted the lab in April 2011 regarding a failed WD hard drive, following a telephone discussion the client allowed our team to arrange the free collection and diagnosis of the failed hard drive
Here is the case study of the WD1600JB-00GVA0 hard drive:
The system in this particular case was sent to our lab was a Western Digital model number WD1600JB-00GVA0; it was stored in an external enclosure for ease of use and data access.
Diagnosis:
After a thorough diagnosis, it was discovered that the drive was deteriorating very fast as the drive had bad sectors that were growing very fast, bad sectors are a part of hard drive technology although they can develop into very large areas.
Spec of this Western Digital WD1600JB-00GVA0 hard disk drive:
320 GB total storage capacity
Manufactured January 2007
7200RPM
EIDE connection
Transfer rate: 100MB/s
8MB cache
What was the outcome?
A full clone was accomplished of the failing hard drive including the bad sectors some of those bad sectors could not be read using ordinary means and required specialist equipment and knowledge to read those very bad but vital areas of the disk.