This is one very successful Western Digital HGST helium hdd firmware repair and data recovery case study from one Dolphin user in Turkey. The user has tried other software and solutions but failed to get the lost data back.
Patient HDD ID:
WD141KRYZ-01C66B0
14TB
Patient HDD Failure symptoms:
When trying to access data, full of bad sectors, no sectors are accessible
Status registers report UNC error and some other software report ABR error
WD141KRYZ-01C66B0 hdd firmware repair and data recovery steps
01: Connected patient hdd to DFL-SRP or DFL PCIe data recovery hardware;
02: Open DFL DDP data recovery software;
03: Power on patient HDD and wait until ready;
04: Click HGST translator recovery within the common repair section and wait until the log window reports ‘operation completed’.
05: Power off and on and users can access the data area successfully and all lost partitions, folders and files are available for immediate data recovery.
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When users are running the logical scan/bad sector scan, no sectors are accessible with UNC error reported and now this error can be easily fixed by one click in the DFL-DDP data recovery software.
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This is one successful data recovery case study for one Dolphin user in India.
Most dolphin users can handle this kind of data recovery cases by themselves but for new users this case study will be very helpful to learn to improve data recovery skills.
Patient HDD ID:
Model-ST5000LM000
Failure symptoms:
Undetected HDD ID;
Data area was not accessible;
ST5000LM000 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps
01: make sure the patient HDD enter F3 T> and the com terminal works properly;
02: Unlock the firmware area;
03: Backup important SYS files;
04: View and confirm the nglist entries;
05: Clear glist, smart and regenerate translator;
06: Fix data encryption issue;
06: Open DFL-DDP data recovery software and all lost partitions and folders were recovered.
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