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This is one physical hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study.

Patient HDD ID:
ST500LT012-1DG142
Family name: Yarra_5400
Family ID: 75

Patient HDD Symptoms:
Capacity 0

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

1, Backup ROM;
2, Backup SYS files but copy 0 failed, copy 1 ok;
3, Translator view ok, V4 clearing ok but when trying to regenerate translator, the regeneration cannot be completed and showing R/W error and file error.
4, Head swap by Level 2 head replacement tool;
5, Enter DFL-DDP data recovery software, users set up one disk image project, set up head map and start image, finally all data was imaged successfully.

Video case study: Seagate ST500LT012 Capacity 0 Head 0 Damaged Data Recovery Steps

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The following COM terminal error messages are from one Seagate ST2000DM001 patient hard drive, the drive is not detected and if users need to recover the lost data, users must fix the firmware failure first.

Boot 0x40M

Spin Up
RECOV Servo Op=0100 Resp=0005 Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has further strengthened the capabilities of our Seagate firmware repair tool, users of DFL-FRP for ST can get this program from our user-only forum.

This new version is one optimized version based on the Version 1.50 and 1.51, users can find out what’s new in DFL-FRP for Seagate V1.50. Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has further upgraded its advanced Seagate firmware repair and password removal tool and now the new version has quickly changed from V.14 to V1.41.

Within the new version 1.41, we have the following changes:

1, LBA>CHS
2, SYS read/write by COM/ATA;
3, More F3 common firmware resources are integrated; Read more