Western Digital WD5000BMVV Data Recovery

Zero Alpha offers professional data recovery for WD5000BMVV hard drives. The 500GB Western Digital portable drive is commonly found in external USB enclosures and laptop systems. Users may experience issues such as clicking noises, drive not detecting, or accidental formatting. We provide expert diagnostics and cleanroom repair services, and we accept mail in jobs from Australia and worldwide.

Western Digital WD5000BMVV data recovery

WD5000BMVV Common Problems

  • Drive not recognized by computer or showing as unallocated
  • Clicking or beeping sounds indicating mechanical failure
  • Corrupted or deleted partitions
  • Electronic damage to the PCB
  • Firmware corruption or slow responding issue
  • Data loss after accidental reformatting or virus infection

WD5000BMVV Models

  • WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0
  • WD5000BMVV-22GNWS1
  • WD5000BMVV-60GNWS2

WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0 Data Recovery Caselog

5Feb24: The drive was not spinning. Checked with another pcb - was not spinning. Converted to SATA,still was not spinning. Opened up the drive, heads were stuck to the platter. Motor was not spinning properly. We thought it was the motor. Inspected the drive second time and removed the heads - the motor was spinning fine. An inspection of the heads showed that damaged had occured to the bottom head. The slider was torn off and completely missing. 

wd5000bmvv 11gnws0 heads close up with damaged missing slider

WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0 Data Recovery Caselog

23Oct25: The drive is not detected by the computer. We had to fix the slow reading firmware before we could do anything. Family is Marn5 4K. Its got onboard encryption using INIC1607E.Â