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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

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

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

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

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

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

The following is one typical Seagate F3 HDD data recovery case study.

Boot 0x80M
MC000Y
0001

SpinUp
TCC:0020 Read more

Recently Dolphin users in many countries reported one special data recovery case on the new Western Digital WD20EZAZ-00L9GB0 hard drives, the HDD family is CARMEL and the PCB number is WD 2060-810011.

These WD20EZAZ-00L9GB0 hard drives have MCU lock and users cannot access to the ROM and firmware area. Read more

There’re some special Toshiba MQ series data recovery case studies appearing in our data recovery labs, these patient hdds come up as 0000 in all LBA locations.

How to get off data from these LBA 0000 Toshiba hard drives? Read more

Interface task reset
4096k x 16 SDRAM
TLITE – 1_Disk S-6B 03-22-06 10:53

Buzz – Head Mask FFFF – Switch to full int.
Spin Ready
(P)SATA Reset
AT Er 00 Nwt Er 43 RdWr 00018.01.02fc
ATA St d0 Er 40 Op 42 4, 0011200,0001 4801 0000
Niwot: 00000000 18 00000000.f.c5c 8000 16b7 285c 0000 Read more