Hhd's

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
1

Can a sata hhd show up in the bios even if it was broken?

2

freedom51,

Yes, depending on which part of the disk is the one “broken”.

3

Sometimes a faulty WD drive will identify itself with its factory alias, eg ROM MODEL HAWK. Alternatively a faulty drive may report a capacity of 0 LBAs.