This data recovery technical document is one case study introducing how DFL-WDII hdd repair tool is used to repair damaged WD hdds which are working very slow with many regular bad sectors without clicking noises.

For this kind of problem, we usually consider it’s caused by the ID module or translator problem.

The hdd is one WD SATA 1TB hdd whose model is WD10EVDS-63U880. Luckily the hdd can reach readiness status.

The response was very slow and the hdd was detected after some time.

The user went to scan the HDD and found a lot of regular and typical bad sectors. Read more

It’s sometimes very useful to fix clicking hard drives with a small scratched area by using one of the new features of in DFL-WDII hdd repair tool version 2.4-adding defects by LBA range.

For some clicking hard drives with a small scratched area, they are still detected and the hdd can become ready in DFL-WDII.

When users scan these patient hard drives, users can find red squares which are read-failed sectors within the scratched area and send loud clicking noises. Read more

The Spring Festival holiday has come to the end and most companies including shipping companies have come back from holiday to work.Shipping companies are able to pick the tools from us and ship worldwide from next Monday on February 18.

Dolphin Data Lab has been all the time processing the orders placed during the holiday and we will ship all the data recovery tools out on Monday. We have prepared and tested all the ordered products and all the necessary shipping documents.

Within the holiday, our engineers have been answering the forums with in-time support and help clients to fix their cases and besides, many of our respected friends are helping a lot in the forums too and we are here sending our best wishes and thanks to them. Read more

We’ve talked about some parts of logical data recovery in a previous article on How To Fix Data Loss By System Error and Bad Tracks and this article is going to look inside of logical data recovery for other logical data loss causes.

File Loss

If a file is lost due to deletion, drive format, or a Ghost clone error: it is possible to recover the deleted files using special Data recovery software designed for this purpose. It might be necessary to try different data recovery software to find all lost files. Read more

DFL-WD II hdd repair tool offers the users options to repair WD USB hard disk drives.

This article gives you the general idea of what functions are available with USB hdds.
DFL-WDII offers two channels: ATA and USB channel. For WD USB HDDs, users need to select USB channel. For USB hdds which can be detected and become ready in DFL-WDII, for WD USB hdds which have had PCB swap from USB interface to SATA interface or which have been converted from USB interface to SATA interface. Read more

DFL-Data Dr. Pro is not one simple traditional high-speed data copy machine or hdd duplicator but it’s one specially and innovatively designed high-speed data recovery equipment for faulty hard drives with TB-level capacities such as 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB, 3TB and even 4TB hard drives. It can be also used to recover USB interfaced external hard drives and USB flash drives.

We’ve recently received a lot of feedback from data recovery engineers worldwide that they’re facing more and more TB-designed hard drives and the current data recovery tools or equipment they have cannot properly meet their needs. They often fail to give the lost data back in time. Many clients need data urgently and wish to get their data back in the same day. Besides, many clients are dealing with faulty drives, traditional or common data copy tools or hdd duplicators cannot handle faulty drives with bad sectors, unstable heads, common hdd failures, logical system errors or bad tracks, etc. Read more

It’s necessary to learn how to analyze the hard drive failure and the find a correct and fast way to get the lost data back.

The following is to discuss the system error and bad tracks causing data loss.

Fix Data Loass Caused By System Error

The main symptom is that you cannot enter the system or the system is abnormal where the computer closes down. There are complex reasons for this and the need to adopt different processing methods is used to repair these problems.

The key file of the system is lost or corrupted, the disk has bad tracks or sectors, the drive is damaged, the MBR or DBR is lost, and the CMOS setting is incorrect. There is a number of reasons why the drive is no longer accessible by the computer. That is why it is important to analyze the hard drive to determine the exact cause of the drive failure before starting to fix these problems. Read more

Hello to all,
Chinese traditional Spring Festival is drawing very near and the official dates start on February 9th and end on February 17th, 2013.

Dolphin Data Lab, the shipping companies and the whole China is going to celebrate it and take the holidays.

Considering this holiday must delay more or less the shipment of Dolphin Data Lab data recovery tools and hdd repair tools and therefore, we sincerely and kindly ask our clients to hurry a little bit to order the tools and we can ship the tools before the shipping companies leave their offices for holiday.

Anyway, users can still place orders by our online data recovery shopping system if users have paypal account or users can still email to us by sales@dolphindatalab.com to discuss the orders. Because within the holiday, we have staffs to check the emails each day and answer any questions clients may have. Read more

For WD PCB1698 series, it’s one difficult data recovery job if the hard drive is not detected or keeps busy. So far it’s almost not possible for any other firmware repair tools to repair this kind of drive and get lost data back.

Situation becomes worse if these kind of PCB1698 hard drives don’t have the cache loader-module 13 and if the module dir is missing or damaged without backup, no other tools except DFL-WDII can repair such kind of hdd failure and recover the data.

Here in this article let’s discuss how to repair undetected or un-ready WD PCB1698 hard drives with DFL-WD II hdd repair tool.

Option 1: Users can use the universal loader-module 11 and ROM offered by Dolphin Data Lab deal with the patient hard drives.

With the offered loader and ROM: If the hdd can reach readiness, users can access the hdd, load the module 11 and then the program will automatically detect the dir module and give users to import one dir module or the DFL program will search it from the tracks users assign. Read more

DFL-DE data recovery tool version 1.3 beta version has been released today and we will continue adding more data recovery functions to this tool and release them in the near future. We wish all users succeed with DFL data recovery and hdd repair tools.

What’s new in DFL-DE Version 1.3?

1, A major upgrade of the DFL-DE hardware console and code optimization to enhance greatly the bad sectors read efficiency and read effectiveness;

2, GPT partition support is added;

3, More new file systems including EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, HFS+, HFSX, VMware ESX VMFS5 are added;

4, Bad sector statistics is added within the disk image and file extraction interface;

5, Partition image loading function is added; Read more