Review on WESTERN DIGITAL WD3200BPVT Scorpio Blue 320GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5 Internal Notebook Hard Drive - Reliable Storage for Laptops by Minoru Taguchi ᠌

According to the symptoms, it looked like this - the loading of the BIOS increased by 10 seconds, then the BIOS loses its business, then it freezes again when accessing the boot part of the hard drive, then the message "error loading operating system" flickers in a second and on a new circle. Loading LiveCD in AHCI mode either stopped with a bsdos or an eternal boot and a black screen (at first I even began to dig towards the RAM). In IDE mode, the LiveCD booted up, the victoria program showed that smart OK, but during the test from the first sector of the bad. MHDD tried to reanimate the sectors, but to no avail (it lasted 10 minutes in time - supposedly fixed 60 sectors). The strange thing is that with such symptoms, in theory, there should be physical damage to the disk, for example, on impact, a scratch or washed down, but nothing like this was found after opening the HDA, everything buzzes and works, just the head tries to read something from the middle of the disk, after several attempts it stops, and just at that moment bios starts loading, etc.