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WD SMR Spyglass Spyglass2 800041 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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Dolphin Data Lab offers the best data recovery solutions to WD SMR HDDs of Spyglass and Spyglass2.

WD SMR HDDs have usually SED Lock, MCU lock issue, slow firmware issue, dynamic translator corruption issue(190 damage), etc. For old spyglass WD hdds, it is very easy to access to the firmware area, repair the damaged firmware modules and then recover the lost data.

To repair and recover lost data from WD Spyglass and Spyglass2 hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:

HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment

WD Spyglass and Spyglass2 HDD Models:

WD30NMVW-11C3NS4
WD30NMZW-11GX6S1
WD30NMRW-11YL9S4
WD40NMZW-11gx6s1
WD40ndzw-11mr8s1
WD40nmzw-59gx6s1
WD50NDZW-11MR8S1

WD Spyglass and Spyglass2 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK

Helpful links:
2060-800041 Data Unlock SATA Connector
Compatible SATA PCB for 2060-800041 and 2060-810012

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ST500DM002 Full HDD Bad Sectors Fixing Starting LBA of RW Request ProcessRWError Read

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This is one interesting Seagate ST500DM002 full hdd bad sectors firmware repair case study for one DFL user from India.

HDD Failure Symptoms:

A lot of errors of Starting LBA of RW Request ProcessRWError Read;
Full disk bad sectors, no data access

HDD Repair Tools and Data Recovery Tools used to fix this firmware corruption case study:

DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

Com terminal messages are as below:

Boot 0x10M

Spin Up[0x00000000][0x0000B67C][0x0000BA10]

Trans.

Rst 0x10M

MC Internal LPC Process

Spin Up

(P) SATA Reset

MediaPartition:

Host LBA Length Disc LBA Length Start Cyl Head

Media Partition 00000000 00997BD0 00000000 00132F7A 00000000 00000000

MC 00000000 00989F50 00000000 001313EA 00000000 00000000

MSP 00990850 00000A80 0013210A 00000150 000007F7 00000000

User Partition 00997BD0 00132F7A 00000802 00000000

MCMainPOR: Start:
Check MCMT Version: Current
MCMainPOR: Non-Init Case

MC Seg Disc and Cache Nodes: 060DBEBC 060DA1A8

Seg Write Preamble VBM start: 00000D3C end: 00000D63

Footer – start: 00000D65 end: 00000D8C

Seg Read Preamble VBM – start: 00000D8E end: 00000DB5

Footer – start: 00000DB7 end: 00000DDE

Reconstruction: MCMT Reconstruction Start

Max number of MC segments 22E0

Nonvolatile MCMT sequence number 028AFA00

[RSRS] 103D DiscLba 0008E15C RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

Starting LBA of RW Request=0008E15C Length=000004EC

ProcessRWError -Read- at LBA 0008E15C Sense Code=43110081

InitiateMarkPendingReallocateRequest for disc_lba: 0008E15C!

Reconstruction: EXCEPTION: Seg Read Fail: Status = 0000

Reconstruction: EXCEPTION: Error in Header

Reconstruction: EXCEPTION: Error in first Header disc sector
ReadFooters (Backwards): Segment 103D StartLBA 00470AE0 Starting Footer LBA 00470F18

SeqNum 028AFA01 DiscLba 0008E1E3 RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

Footer Status = 0001 DiscLba 0008E1DE RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

Footer Status = 0001 DiscLba 0008E161 RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Obtained: ID/Seq 44524352 00090028 0000174C 80990000

Copied Header 44524352 00090028

Continuing after error

Reconstruction: Completed 0: HeadPtr was unwritten

[MCMTWS]
MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCStateFlagsDisc = 00000001

MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCTStateFlags = 0000002A

MCMainPOR: MCStateFlags = 00000001

MCMainPOR: Feature Enabled…

MSP MainPOR:

MSP Init Metadata

Buf Bytes/VBM 00000208 DBA Base 06000000
Metadata size in bytes 0040

Num Segments 0054

Logical Sector Alignment 00000000

MSP Reconstruction

MSP Read ScratchPad Section 0000 DiscLBA 0013210A BlkSize 00000A80 Num Segments 00000054 DiscLba 0013210A RW_RTL 000F4240

Starting LBA of RW Request=0013210A Length=00000150

ProcessRWError -Read- at LBA 0013210A Sense Code=43110081
RTL exceeded

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

1, Enter DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool, Wait until F3 T> is available;
2, Backup important SYS firmware modules such as NG-list, translator, primary defect list, etc;
3, Clear g-list, smart and regenerate translator;
4, Full disk bad sectors firmware problem is not fixed by above operations;
5, Fix media cache issue;
6, Fix NGlist failure issue by one click;
7, Clear g-list, regenerate translator;
8, Data Accessed;
9, Open DFL-DDP data recovery program;
10,All lost partitions, folders and files were listed and available for selective file extraction.

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WD10EZRX-00L4HB0 HDD Undetected Spin Up and Down Data Recovery Steps

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This is one successful Western Digital WD10EZRX-00L4HB0 hard drive data recovery case study for one DFL user in Indonesia.

Patient HDD ID:
PCB: 1945. Family: TRAILXLS. Microcode: 1005G

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:
Undetected hdd
Spin up and Down

HDD repair tool and data recovery equipment used in this case study:

DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

HDD repair and Data Recovery Steps

1, Connect patient hdd to DFL hdd repair hardware;
2, Power on and enter DFL-WD hdd repair software by kernel mode;
3, Backup ROM and Disable 02;
4, Firmware restart and re-enter the program to backup firmware modules;
5, One click to fix slow issue;
6, One click to fix 36 issue;
7, Enable 02 and firmware restart;
8, Enter DFL-DDP data recovery program and users could enter the file extraction interface and all lost data had been recovered successfully.

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How to Image or Recover Unstable USB Flash Drives

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As for data recovery from USB flash drives, there’re usually several types of data recovery cases including accidental format, deletion, slow recovery, bad sector data recovery, controller corruption repair and recovery, firmware corruption repair and recovery, etc.

We can also devide above cases into two types: chip-on usb flash recovery and chip-off usb flash recovery.

In this article, unstable USB flash drive data recovery(chip-on data recovery) will be focused. This kind of case is easy for all users but users need some professional data recovery hardware tools and adapters.

For unstable USB flash drives, users don’t need to solder chips off, don’t need to read chip data, analyse chip hex, restructure hex data, etc. Chip-off recovery is very difficult for many engineers specially for those who are new to data recovery field.

The following are usually data recovery solutions for USB flash drives:

1, common data recovery software for recovering accidental format, deletion;
2, data recovery hardware tools with features of software reset, hard reset, power reset, ready timeout control, etc, users can consider DFL-URE USB3.0 data recovery hardware(two USB3.0 ports) or DFL-URE Plus data recovery hardware(One USB3.0 port and one NVME port), users can connect the unstable USB flash drives for direct disk imaging or file extraction; If users have other types of data recovery hardware with SATA/IDE ports, such as DFL-SRP or DFL PCIe data recovery hardware or other similar data recovery hardware, users just need to have one Universal SATA-USB Adapter Pro. so that users can connect unstable USB flash drives for disk imaging or file extraction. These tools can actually fix the chip-on recovery cases efficiently;
3, Special chip-off recovery tools are required when the usb flash drives are dead or suffering controller damage or firmware corruption.

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Unique Seagate Rosewood EB01 HDD Format Data Recovery Solution

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Dolphin team have worked hard to add the unique Seagate Rosewood EB01 Format Data Recovery Solution to DFL hdd repair and data recovery equipment.

For Seagate Rosewood EB01 HDD format, it causes data loss and most data sectors become 0000 and there were no data recovery solutions before.

After suffering the HDD format, users may get about 10GB data in the front or get no data at all.

With Dolphin Unique Seagate Rosewood EB01 HDD Format Data Recovery Solution, users can get lost data fully recovered.

DFL HDD Repair and Data Recovery Equipment required:

DFL-SRP Seagate HDD Repair Equipment
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

Users will get the new upgrade software from the Dolphin user-only forum and all DFL users will be more and more successful.

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WD SMR HDD 2060-810035 Firmware Unlock without Firmware Unlock PCB

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It’s now possible to unlock the firmware area for WD 2060-810035 SMR HDDs without special firmware unlock PCB if users have DFL-WD firmware repair tool.

DFL users can download the latest DFL all-in-one software V2.31 in the user-only forum to use the latest firmware unlock solution.

Firmware unlock steps:

Step 1: Remove original PCB;

Step 2: Read original ROM by HDD ROM Chip Pin reader, no need to solder rom chip off;

Step 3: Enter DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool, go to ROM Operations>Unlock ROM;

Step 4: Select original rom and the DFL WD program will automatically generate one unlock ROM;

Step 5: Write Unlock ROM by HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader, no need to solder rom chip off;

Step 6: Install original PCB to original HDD, users can connect original HDD to DFL-URE or DFL-UREP to backup module 190, repair 190 and then use auto loading tech. to image hdd or extract lost data directly.

In some WD SMR HDD cases, due to bad sectors, weak heads or surface issue, users may need to convert the USB interface to SATA to run disk image, users can use the WD SMR HDD data unlock SATA connectors.

Please note: Most WD SMR HDDs are supported to use the firmware unlock solution for data recovery purpose but there’re still few special ROM structures which are not yet supported.

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WDC WD10TMVW-11ZSMS4 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one successful hdd firmware repair and data recovery case study for one DFL user from Malaysia. This WD patient HDD had both firmware failure and file system error.

HDD ID:

Model number: WDC WD10TMVW-11ZSMS4
SN: WD-WXV1C5280965

HDD Failure Symptoms：

Not detected;
Folder empty;

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Equipment used in this case study:

DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

Enter DFL-WD HDD repair program by kernel mode;
Disable 02 and firmware restart;
One click to repair common slow issue and test other firmware modules;
Enable 02 and firmware restart;
Enter DFL-DDP data recovery equipment software and selected file extraction module;
Lost partitions and folders were listed but the folders were empty;
Right click the partition and click menu ‘Scan Files>Fast Scan’ and all the folders were listed and at this time, the folders were full of data;
The users selected all the wanted data and then started the file extraction and finally all the lost files were perfectly recovered.

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Western Digital SMR HDD System Format Data Recovery

It’s possible to recover lost data from Western Digital SMR HDD suffering system accidental format by DFL-WD hdd repair tool and DFL-DDP data recovery hardware tool.

For WD SMR HDD system format, it’s more complicated to get lost data back for data recovery engineers than traditional hdd format.

For system format of WD SMR HDD, except the new system data, all other data area become 0000 if users check the hdd by Hex tool. This is because WD SMR HDD system format will cause data-related firmware module change and in some cases, the data is permanently lost.

For data recovery engineers with DFL data recovery tools, they can fix some of these WD SMR HDD format cases with the following new firmware module solution:


Many DFL users have reported to us that they have fixed many WD SMR HDD cases from their competitors who failed to recover lost data with other data recovery tools.

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DFL Data Recovery Hardware Tools Recover New Seagate Hard Drives

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If users want to repair new Seagate hard drives firmware corruption or recover lost data from the new Seagate hard drives,  DFL Seagate hdd repair tool and DFL DDP data recovery tool are the best choices!

The following new families are properly supported:

Janus AF
Rosewood A5
Rosewood AE
Rosewood 8C
CheopsliteA 9B
CheopsliteA AD
CheopsliteA B2
Tatsu 97
M11 A1
Pharaoh Oasis 94
V9 A0
A2
Cimarron B5
Other new LM, DM series…

Besides above new ones, the traditional Seagate F3 hard drives and old T> drives are also supported well for both firmware repair and data recovery.

Many new Seagate hard drives have SED lock and users cannot access the firmware area directly. Users need to use DFL Seagate HDD repair tool to unlock the firmware area first and then users can backup the firmware modules and repair damaged firmware.

With DFL Seagate HDD Repair tool and DFL-DDP data recovery tool, users have the following solutions:

Repair capacity 0 Seagate HDDs;
Repair undetected Seagate HDDs;
Repair busy Seagate HDDs;
Unlock SED hdds;
Repair LED firmware corruption;
Edit head map in ROM;
One-click solution for many common firmware failures;
Partial sector access fix auto;
ROM module swap;
Head adaptive ROM generation;
Nohost ROM generation;
Firmware Unlock;
Seagate F3 Hot Swap;
LOD backup/write and write by COM;
SYS test;
NGlist editing/clearing;
Read/Edit/Write LBAs;
Repair by tracks;
HDD head flying height/ temperature adjustment;
Edit LBA;
Recover good data from good heads;
Image needed files only;
Source drive maximum data protection tech;
Image unstable drives and sectors;
Many more…

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Dolphin Data Recovery Hardware Tools Recover New Western Digital Hard Drives

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Dolphin Data Lab has released the latest data recovery software V2.3 and this new software will help all DFL users repair firmware corruption and recover lost data from new Western Digital hard drives, for example the latest SMR hard drives with SED and MCU lock.

As for Western Digital hard drives, we have experienced the PCB series of 12XX, 14XX, 15XX, 16XX, 17XX, 18XX, 19xx, 800XX, 81XXX, etc.  All users need to check the PCB number of the WD drives and then users can easily judge if the WD drives are supported or not.

For old WD hard drives, the firmware area is not locked, users can easily access and backup the firmware modules, if not, users can load loaders to access the firmware; for some common hard drives, users can disable 02 or disable 411 to access the firmware area; but for new WD SMR hard drives, users need to use firmware unlock PCB or create unlock rom to unlock firmware area.

For new WD SMR hard drives, Dolphin data recovery tools have many unique and powerful hdd repair and data recovery solutions: to fix the SMR HDD slow firmware issue; to fix SMR HDD all sectors 0000 firmware issue; to fix SMR HDD inaccessible data area issue.

For WD hard drives, users have the following options of firmware repair and data recovery:

1, Firmware module read and write;
2, Edit firmware modules;
3, Re-generate firmware modules;
4, Re-generate ROM;
5, Fix Slow issue;
6, Edit head map in RAM;
7, Test and clear firmware module;
8, Convert LBA to CHS;
9, Extract firmware modules from tracks;
10, Backup firmware region and extract firmware modules from region;
11,  Change module size to read;
12, Change module location;
13, Bypass firmware read;
14, Disable module 02/411 to access firmware area;
15, Test heads quality;
16, etc;

More and more new WD hard drive data recovery cases are being fixed by Dolphin data recovery tools.

 

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