This is one patient HDD fixed by DFL Seagate firmware repair tool from one DFL user in Italy. The user can only access to very small part of the data area and most data were lost.
Patient HDD Details:
Capacity: 1TB
Model number: ST1000DM010-2EP102
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Dolphin team are releasing the new all in one software V2.1 with many new firmware repair and data recovery solutions.
DDP version: V2.1
ST Version: V4.01
WD Version: V2.882
SS Version 1.337
HT Version: 1.383
FT Version: 1.571
New Firmware Repair features in DFL Seagate firmware tool V4.01:
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Seagate hdd is one of the top hdd brands in the world and 3.86GB wrong capacity is one typical hdd failure and it was not easy to fix such kind of hdd failure.
When the patient HDD got 3.86GB wrong capacity, the HDD failure can be caused by physical platter surface scratches or HDD boot firmware corruption.
This is one successful data recovery case done by DFL engineer today. The user is from India. He mentioned that the patient drive can spin up and no clicking noise. But it stays busy, unable to IDed, even cannot read ROM.
HDD ID
Patient drive: WD20EZRX-00D8PB0
PCB Number: 2060-771945-001
In the coming Seagate firmware repair software upgrade, Dolphin R&D engineers have prepared one new helpful function for all DFL users to write the LOD by COM mode.
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Dolphin R&D engineers have worked out the new easy-to-use SM2258XT SSD data recovery solution and made it available to work with DFL SRP and DFL PCIe data recovery hardware with DDP software module.
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According to the feedback from DFL users, many data recovery engineers have received more and more new WD patient hard drives of Spyglass, Palmer and Charger families and their PCB numbers are 800041, 800022, 800066, 800069, 800067 800065, etc.
This is one of success cases done by DFL engineer today. The drive can get ready, F3 T> is accessible, but suffer from partial access issue.
HDD ID
Patient drive: ST2000DM001 Part Number: 1CH164-302
SN:W1E3GRET Firmware: CC26
Capacity: 2TB Manufacture date: February 2013
This is one easy to fix data recovery case from one Indian user. This is one WD Mypassport 2TB patient HDD and the model number is wd20sdzw-11z3cs0 and the PCB number is 2060-800067-001 rev p1.
This WD USB hard drive has one partition lost and the client wants to recover the lost videos and photos but when connecting this USB drive to pc, the drive is not detected and the pc gets stuck there.
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Here in China, the Coronavirus has been properly controlled and people start to work normally. Dolphin head office has been working normally for over one month and Dolphin team are working hard to improve the existing data recovery tools and add new data recovery solutions.
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