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ST1000VT001-1RE172 Seagate HDD Data Recovery Steps

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This ST1000VT001-1RE172 is one firmware locked Seagate hard drive and it has firmware corruption and users cannot access to the data area. To recover lost data, users must firstly unlock firmware and then start the firmware repair process. Read more

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Seagate ST1000LM035 Update Mask ProcessRWError MS Read Fails

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This is one successful data recovery case for one DFL user in Indonesia and this client has fixed many data recovery cases with the help of Dolphin data recovery remote support system. Read more

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How to Set Up Head Map for Western Digital SMR 8X00XX Hard Drives

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Physical data recovery cases are very common for Western Digital SMR 8X00XX hard drives. To recover the lost data safely, it is necessary to set up the head map within the data area and then image the patient HDD by selective heads, image the good heads first and then weak heads. Read more

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Seagate ST1000LM010-9YH146 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one Seagate hard drive data recovery case study for one DFL user in USA who is one new user of DFL PCIe data recovery equipment. The patient HDD reports SIM Error 1009 and R/W read error.

The hard drive ID can be read properly but the COM port reports SIM error 1009 and R/W read error. Read more

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WD 8X00XX HDD SED Data Encryption Data Recovery Steps

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The WD 8X00XX HDD SED Data Encryption hard drives we are talking about in this article are the Western Digital portable hard drives with USB PCB numbers of 2060-800041, 800067, 800069, 810003, 810012, 810035. Besides 800041, the other USB HDDs above have both MCU and SED lock, 800041 USB HDD has SED lock. Read more

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Seagate ST9320325AS Capacity 0 HDD Repair Data Recovery Steps

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This is one easy-to-fix firmware corrupted data recovery case for one user from Malaysia who just started their data recovery business and learning how to recover lost data professionally with Dolphin DFL data recovery hardware tools. Read more

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How to Repair and Recover Seagate ST1500LM012-1R817G Full Disk Bad Sectors

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This is one successful Seagate hdd firmware repair and data recovery case study for one DFL user in India.

HDD model number: ST1500LM012-1R817G; SN number: WDZ6KGYA Family: Rosewood A5
Firmware version: SBK2 Read more

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SIM Error 2041 RW Error ProcessRWError -Write Fix by DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool

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The following COM terminal error messages are from one Seagate ST2000DM001 patient hard drive, the drive is not detected and if users need to recover the lost data, users must fix the firmware failure first.

Boot 0x40M

Spin Up
RECOV Servo Op=0100 Resp=0005 Read more

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WD Undetected WD10JMVW-11AJGS4 Portable Hard Drive Data Recovery Steps and Tools

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To recover lost data from Western Digital undetected portable hard drives is very common data recovery case in all data recovery labs.

This kind of patient hdds are usually corrupted due to the firmware failure or head failure, common pc users or IT engineers without professional data recovery equipment are not expected  to fix the failure and get lost data back. Read more

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ST8000DM004-2CX188 Busy Undetected HDD Data Recovery Steps

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This is one successful Seagate 8TB ST8000DM004-2CX188 data recovery case study for one DFL user in Peru.

Patient HDD ID details：
Model number: ST8000DM004-2CX188
SN number: ZCT1A0T1
Head Number: 8 Read more

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