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How to Recover Toshiba G003250A MQ01UBD100 MQ01UBD050 Hard Drives

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How to recover Toshiba G003250A MQ01UBD100 MQ01UBD050 USB3.0 portable hard drives?

It is very common data recovery case to recover lost deleted data from Toshiba USB3.0 portable hard drives. For DFL users, they usually use DFL-URE USB3.0 data recovery hardware tool to connect the USB drives directly for disk image or file extraction.

In some cases, the portable drives cannot be detected in PC and ask for format to continue; In some cases, when users insert the drives to pc, the pc gets stuck, the drives are actually running very slowly with bad sectors in the booting part; In some cases, the portable hdd has weak heads but still detected, users can use DFL-URE data recovery USB version or NVME version to image by heads; In some cases, the Toshiba portable HDDs have clicking noises indicating head damage, users need to use Hard Drive Ramp Toolkit Pro. to swap heads in clean room environment and then use DFL hdd repair tools and data recovery tools for possible firmware repair and data recovery.

When users are trying to repair firmware corruption or image the patient HDDs with bad sectors or weak heads, users are mostly going to convert the USB interface to SATA interface, for Toshiba G003250A MQ01UBD100 MQ01UBD050 USB3.0 portable hard drives, users have two options: get compatible G003250A SATA PCB or get Toshiba G003250A Sata Connector Pro.

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How to Recover SFF-8784 WD5000MPCK WD5000M22K WD5000M21K Hard Drives

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How to recover lost deleted files from Western Digital SFF-8784 hard drives?
How to recover Western Digital WD5000MPCK hard drives with SFF-8784 Edge Connector?
How to recover Western Digital WD5000M22K hard drives with SFF-8784 Edge Connector?
How to recover Western Digital WD5000M21K hard drives with SFF-8784 Edge Connector? Read more

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ST1000LM035-1RK172 Unstable HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one undetected and unstable Seagate ST1000LM035-1RK172 hard drive data recovery case study for one DFL user from Australia. Read more

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ST1000LX015-1U7172 Not Spining HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This ST1000LX015-1U7172 patient SSHD was from one Indian DFL user, the original failure symptom was not spining. This is very common firmware problem related to the SSD failure on the PCB. Read more

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External Hard Drive Data Recovery Hardware Tools

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What are the best data recovery tools for recovering lost data from external hard drives?
How to repair a corrupted external hard drive without data loss?
How to recover lost data from external hard disk which is not detecting? Read more

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WD10JPCX-24UE4T0 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one of cases done by DFL engineer today for a Europe user. The HDD ID information cannot be identified, unable to read ROM and firmware module list either. Read more

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WD5000LPLX-60ZNTT2 2060-800018-001 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one of cases done by Dolphin engineer today for a Latin America user. The HDD ID information can be identified by program, firmware module list can be accessible as well, but has slow issue. Read more

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ST3500511CS Process Defect List Fail to Load Overlay Repair and Recovery Steps

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This is one complicated but successful Seagate ST3500511CS HDD firmware repair and data recovery case study for one DFL user in India.

Model ID: ST3500511CS
Capacity: 500GB
Firmware: CA14 4k
Donor HDD FW: SC13 512 bytes

The original patient HDD failures:

1, Undetected;
2, User wrote wrong SYS files from donor HDD to patient HDD;
3, Couldn’t do any write operations, read only, all SYS write failed;
4, Com terminal reports process defect list error if translator regeneration.

The following are detailed steps using DFL Seagate HDD repair tool and DFL-DDP data recovery tool to get all lost data back:

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Dolphin users can read all detailed firmware repair and data recovery steps in Dolphin user-only forum here.

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ST2000DM008-2FR102 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one of data recovery cases done by Dolphin engineer today for an Asia user. The HDD ID information cannot be identified by program, unable to see firmware module list, all sectors are inaccessible either. Read more

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WD10JMVW-11S5XS1 2060-771823-000 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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Here is the video on how to recover lost data from WD10JMVW 11S5XS1 undetected hard drives without data access.

Patient HDD ID details:

Model number: WD10JMVW 11S5XS1
Family: Firebird
PCB: 2060-771823-000
Head number: 4

If users enter DFL-WD hdd firmware repair program, the HDD ID couldn’t be detected properly and the firmware modules are not accessed too.

To recover lost data from this kind of cases, users need to short connect TV9 and TV10 and enter program, backup ROM, disable 02, firmware restart, re-enter the program.

After above steps, the firmware modules were already available.

Next the engineer went to click the common repair-Slow fix and unlock smartware.

Next the engineer tested all the firmware modules and found out which modules were corrupted. The module 32 was corrupted, the engineer found one donor 32, wrote to hdd and cleared the module 32.

Next the engineer enabled module 02, firmware restart.

Next the patient HDD was perfectly fixed and the data area was accessed too.

Next the engineer opened DFL-DDP data recovery program and all lost data was perfectly recovered.

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