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ST500DM002 is very common Seagate hdd data recovery case study in many data recovery labs and there’re many firmware failures on this model.

ST500DM002 has two types: one belongs to Seagate 7200.12 family and the other type belongs to Grenda family-58. The 58 family has sometimes even SA locked. Read more

Another Seagate 7200.12 ST31000524AS patient hdd has been fixed from the same Dolphin user in Greece with very similar symptom, busy and undetected failure.

Users can read the post Seagate ST31000528AS HDD Data Recovery Steps here to learn how to fix this kind of failure. Read more

This Seagate ST31000528AS case was done for one Dolphin user in Greece and 100% lost data has been recovered. The patient drive kept busy and no ID was detected.

SIM Error 2040
RW Error 00000080
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This Western Digital WD40NMZW-11GX6S1 patient drive had many bad sectors with not much data, to recover the lost data from it was easy with DFL-DDP data recovery tool.

When the user brought this 4TB patient drive to Dolphin data recovery lab, it’s said there’s only 400GB data stored inside the drive which is only 10 percent of the whole drive. Read more

This is one Seagate ST31000528AS hdd data recovery case study with partial sector access problem and it’s fixed perfectly by DFL Seagate firmware repair tool.

For Seagate F3 hard drives-non-LM familes, it is possible to fix the partial sector access problems by the DFL-Seagate Partial Access auto repair utility, but for this drive, it could take very long time, cause’ only 1% of the data area was accessible. Read more

WD10JMVW-11AJGS2 hard drive data recovery cases are very common cases and for Dolphin users, it is also very easy to fix such kind of cases whether it’s physically damaged or firmware damaged.

Dolphin team wish to remind all users never treat physically damaged hard drives as firmware damaged hard drives, specially for new users, it is very important to protect clients’ valuable data. Read more

This is one interesting Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 data recovery case study fixed perfectly by DFL Seagate firmware repair tool and DFL DDP data recovery tool.

This case study was fixed by Dolphin remote system for one DFL user in India. Read more

This is one easy and successful WD20NMVW-11EDZS6 hdd data recovery cases with weak heads and bad sectors. This case is from one Dolphin user in USA.

Patient HDD ID:

Model number: WD20NMVW-11EDZS6
SN: WX51A769N
2 platters / 4 heads
PCB: 2060-771961-001 REV A Read more

This is one very interesting western digital hdd data recovery case, the patient hard drive was not detected and capacity was 0, but finally all data was perfectly recovered by DFL WD firmware repair tool and DFL DDP data recovery tool.

Patient HDD ID: WD3200BEKT-60V5T1
Family: Saturn
2 platters / 4 heads Read more

Seagate ST2000lm015-2E8174 data recovery is very similar like other Seagate LM hard drives such as ST1000LM035, ST2000LM007.

All these Seagate LM hard drives are SA locked, no COM terminal available to diagnose and repair with commands directly and therefore, to recover lost data from these drives, the very first thing to do is to unlock the COM terminal. Read more