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This is one real case study on how to recover lost data from Western Digital USB3.0 hard drives whose PCB number belongs to 1961 series.

HDD ID: 2.5” USB3.0 Hard Drive
Family-Null; Model: WDC WD20NMVW-11AV3S2; Capacity: 2TB
PCB: 1961

The engineer changed the 1961 USB PCB to 1933 SATA PCB and moved the ROM chip-U12 to the SATA PCB as well. Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has completed the DFL-FRP for Hitachi hard drive firmware repair and password removal tool and the first version 1.0 will be released very soon.

For existing users with DFL-FRP hardware, whether it’s DFL-FRP for Seagate, DFL-FRP for WD or DFL-FRP for Seagate and WD, users can easily buy the Hitachi firmware repair program and have it supported in the same hardware. Read more

Dolphin Data Lab is releasing new version of DFL-URE USB 3.0 data recovery tool-DFL-URE V1.2. In the previous versions, we have studied all functions carefully and removed some unnecessary functions and added many new features in this current new version.

Dolphin Data Lab has optimized the URE device registration and driver installation process and users can now install the DFL-URE much more easily. Users just need to go to the DFL-URE installation folder and find the driver folder for 32bit or 64bit Read more

Dolphin Data Lab is spending the Middle-Autumn festival holiday here and the holiday last three days including September 6, 7 and 8, 2014.

Chinese Moon Festival is traditionally celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunisolar month and the whole China is celebrating this festival including all including companies, etc. Dolphin Data Lab will come back to work on Next Tuesday (September 9). Read more

This is one USB drive(USB1737) data recovery case study shared by one of our Chinese users and it explains how to use DFL-FRP firmware repair tool and DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment to get the lost data back from this patient USB hard drive with simple steps, this patient USB drive was not recognized in windows.

The user changed the USB PCB to SATA PCB and swapped the ROM but the hdd ID was not recognized, the good news is that the hdd is ready within the DFL-FRP for WD. Read more

HDD ID: WDC WD2500AAKX-001CA0; Serial Number: WD-WMAYU08856953; Family: Tahoe_LT; Microcode: 00030010

The following hdd has selftest run but failed. To check the selftest history and find out what happened, users can go to view the IBI logs.

We can find one of the import selftest process failed-B9-format with plist, the time shows 00. This step is very important for selftest because it reassigns the data area defects to the p-list. If this step fails, there will be many bad sectors found during the scanning. Read more

Dolphin team feel proud to say all our staffs are happily working hard for a higher success rate generated from our data recovery tools and a greater success from all our honored users.

We are happy Dolphins!

Most staffs in our company are engineers and our happy thing is each little progress within our research and development of new data recovery tools and solutions or even a fix to the bug reported from the user or even a simple new feature request met quickly to help with clients’ daily data recovery cases. Read more

According to users’ feedback, we have had a quick fix to our DFL-DE USB2.0 and DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment within the following three functions:

1, Fix the bug of imaging USB drives connected to PC;
2, DMA abnormal read error was fixed after mounting the disks;
3, Optimize the running compatibility with the PC so that DDP works more stably. Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has again upgraded its Seagate Firmware Repair hardware tool-DFL-FRP for ST and the latest version is V1.43.

We have added many new Seagate hard drive firmware repair functions and optimized some existing functions so that users will enhance their success rate a lot.

Quick view of the latest changes within this new version:

1, New function of entering booting code to read/write ROM without short connection is added by COM port. This function is very helpful to save time and enhance success rate of Seagate firmware repair when the ROM write is required; Read more

This was one case study of Seagate F3 hard drive refurbishing, to refurbish the hard drive means the client doesn’t need the data inside the drive, because the functions used in this case study will destroy the data.

So users must backup the firmware resources, must learn whether it’s to refurbish the hard drive or recover the data before operating on the hard drives.

The hard drive ID information is as below:

Model: ST500DM002-1BD142; Firmware version: KC43; Capacity: 500GB; Serial Number: 6VMXTPTB Read more