It’s very important to learn how to recover lost data properly and successfully from faulty hard drives. Each hdd recovery case can be different due to different HDD failures. Read more
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This is one of success cases done by Dolphin engineer today for an Indonesian user. The HDD ID information can be identified by program, but cannot extract data and not able to access firmware module list. After check the terminal message, our engineer found that is a common issue for Seagate drive, with the already built in function “1009 fix” in our program, it can be solved easily by just one click. Read more
This is one of success cases done by DFL engineer today for an India user. The data area and firmware are not accessible. After carefully check, our engineer found that the issue is on module 02, and there is bad sector on firmware area as well. Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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