Western Digital Data Recovery

Welcome to Cardiff Data Recovery, Wales’s No.1 data recovery service for Western Digital (WD) hard drives. With 25 years of professional experience, we recover lost, deleted, or inaccessible data from all WD internal and external drives — including mechanical HDDs and advanced SSDs.

Whether your WD drive has been dropped, is making unusual noises, or simply isn’t detected by your system anymore, our engineers can help. We handle everything from minor logical issues to catastrophic mechanical failures — including complex firmware corruption and encrypted drive recovery.

💽 Supported Western Digital Drive Types

We recover data from:

• Internal Desktop and Laptop Drives (3.5″, 2.5″)
• WD Elements, My Passport, My Book External Drives
• WD Black, Blue, Green, Red (NAS), Purple (Surveillance)
• WD Gold (Enterprise), Ultrastar DC, and NVMe SSDs
• RAID-configured WD drives (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10)
• WD SSDs with PCIe and M.2 interfaces

Supported interfaces:

• SATA, PATA (IDE), NVMe, PCIe, SAS, SCSI, M.2, U.2, eSATA, and USB 3.0/3.1

🔧 Top 30 Selling Western Digital Hard Drive Models We Recover From

1. WD Blue 1TB/2TB (WD10EZEX, WD20EZAZ)
2. WD Black 2TB/4TB (WD2003FZEX, WD4005FZBX)
3. WD Red NAS 4TB/6TB (WD40EFRX, WD60EFRX)
4. WD Purple Surveillance 4TB (WD42PURZ)
5. WD My Passport 1TB/2TB/4TB
6. WD Elements Portable 2TB/4TB
7. WD My Book Desktop 4TB/8TB
8. WD Gold Enterprise 10TB (WD101KRYZ)
9. WD Ultrastar DC HC310/HC550
10. WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD
11. WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD
12. WD Red Pro 8TB/10TB (WD8003FFBX, WD101KFBX)
13. WD Black P10 Game Drive
14. WD My Passport SSD 1TB/2TB
15. WD Green SSD 240GB/480GB
16. WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD
17. WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD
18. WD Elements SE SSD
19. WD My Passport Wireless Pro
20. WD Red Plus NAS Drives
21. WD Scorpio Blue (Laptop)
22. WD RE4 Enterprise 2TB
23. WD VelociRaptor 10K RPM
24. WD Raptor X
25. WD AV-GP (Media Drives)
26. WD Sentinel NAS
27. WD My Cloud (Single Bay & Mirror)
28. WD D10 Game Drive
29. WD Black External SSD (Gaming)
30. WD USB-C Drives (Mac and PC)

⚠️ 30 Common WD Hard Drive Recovery Issues & How We Resolve Them

1. Drive Not Detected by BIOS – Check PCB and ROM; reprogram firmware modules.
2. Grinding/Clicking Noises – Mechanical head crash; head replacement.
3. WD Passport Asks to Be Formatted – Partition table recovery, sector analysis.
4. Drive Spins But Isn’t Accessible – Firmware rebuild and sector reallocation.
5. Bad Sectors Causing Freezing – Clone drive with advanced error skipping.
6. PCB Burnout from Power Surge – Transplant matching PCB and ROM chip.
7. Logical Corruption or File System Damage – File carving and metadata reconstruction.
8. Overheating SSD Fails to Mount – NAND inspection, controller chip repair.
9. Encrypted Drive Not Unlocking – Decryption with user credentials or recovery key.
10. WD SmartWare Backup Volume Corrupted – Extract raw backup images.
11. RAID-Configured WD Drives Out of Sync – Manual RAID reassembly, parity verification.
12. Firmware Locked WD USB Drives – Unlock modules via utility bypass.
13. WD Red NAS Dropped from Array – Rebuild virtual RAID using known good drives.
14. WD Drive Shows RAW in Disk Management – Reconstruct partition and file system.
15. HDD Slow to Respond – Analyse slow-read heads and firmware loop fix.
16. SMART Status Failure – Preemptive imaging before total mechanical breakdown.
17. WD SSD Fails Post-Update – Firmware rollback and NAND map reconstruction.
18. WD External Shows 0 Bytes – Logical mapping errors repaired.
19. Accidental Reinitialisation – Hex-level signature analysis and volume rebuild.
20. Deleted Partitions – Volume metadata recovery and testdisk reconstruction.
21. WD USB Connector Broken – Bypass bridge board, access SATA/NVMe directly.
22. No LED or Spinning – Dead Drive – Full power circuit inspection and ROM transplant.
23. Partition Corrupted During File Transfer – Repair via cloned volume and rebuild.
24. Dropped External WD Drive – Read/write head realignment or replacement.
25. WD Software Fails to Mount Drive – Manual mounting and decryption.
26. Platter Contamination – Head stack change.
27. WD My Book Security Issues – Unlock encrypted partitions or bypass password protection.
28. Firmware Loop (WD MCU Loop) – Repair firmware modules via donor ROM.
29. Failed Clone with Cloning Tool – Switch to hardware imaging with head skipping.
30. Drive “Beeping” When Connected – Stuck spindle motor or seized head.

🧰 Supported File Systems & Operating Systems

• NTFS, exFAT, FAT32, APFS, HFS+, EXT3/4, XFS, BTRFS
• Windows 11/10/8/7, macOS, Linux, WD My Cloud OS

✅ Why Choose Cardiff Data Recovery?

• 25+ years of real-world Western Digital recovery experience
• Advanced firmware, NAND and SSD controller repair capabilities
• In-depth knowledge of WD-specific architecture and encryption
• Fully GDPR-compliant recovery process for personal and business clients
• Transparent diagnostics with no obligation
• Emergency 48-hour recovery service available

📞 Contact Cardiff Data Recovery Today

If your Western Digital drive has failed, is making unusual noises, or won’t mount — don’t risk permanent data loss with DIY tools.

Contact Cardiff Data Recovery today for your free diagnostic. We are your trusted professionals in western digital disk recovery, ready to recover your data with precision, care and speed.