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There are more and more partial sector access for Seagate Mobile LM hard drives such as the LM007, LM012, LM035, etc. There’re different types of partial sector access types.

This is one successful ST2000LM007 Partial Sector Access Data Recovery case study. Dolphin engineer has helped one DFL user in USA recover 100% data from this patient drive. Read more

This is one successful remote data recovery case study for one DFL user in USA.

According to the user’s report, the patient drive could be properly detected and was able to enter F3 T> but when he tried to image the hard drive, he could only image 70% around of the drive and the last 30% of data was blocked. If the user tried to scan the bad sectors, full of bad sectors was found. Read more

This is one physical western digial head swap data recovery case.

When the case was received, users request Dolphin data recovery engineers to check remotely. By entering safe mode of the hard drive, the engineer could backup the ROM and run SA Bypassing function. Read more

For WD hard drives which is undetected and capacity 0, it is not easy for common data recovery companies without professional firmware repair tools or it is impossible case for data recovery software solutions.

When the patient drive was powered on, the drive had no physical damage symptoms but when trying to detect the hard drive ID information, it failed and the hard drive model, SN, firmware version and SPT were not available and the capacity was 0. Read more

When users power on the patient drive with data loss, users may find the following reported error messages in the COM terminal:

Rst 0x08M
Servo Processor Is Reset.

RW: Disc Ctlr Initialization Completed. Read more

SIM1009 error is one common error message reported by the patient HDD in the COM terminal and with DFL Seagate firmware repair tool, it’s just one click away to fix this failure and get lost data back.

This is one successful remote case study for one DFL user in Mexico. The user applied for remote support by Dolphin remote support system and Dolphin engineer connected to user PC by teamviewer and started to fix the damaged drive for user. Read more

With DFL firmware repair and data recovery tools, it is very easy to recover lost data from WD20EARS-00MVWB0 hard drives or similar hard drives with PCB1698, capacity 0 and spin up.

The following is one case study from one Dolphin user in Mexico, it took 2 minutes to find lost data back. Read more

This is one successful Dolphin remote data recovery case study for one Dolphin user in Brazil. The patient hard drive was wrongly detected and capacity was 0.

Hard drive model: WDC WD30PURX-64P6ZY0
SN: WD-WMC4N0M7HNTS
Family: DIABLO3S
6 heads Read more

This is one data recovery case study for one Dolphin Indian user by Dolphin remote support system. Users can learn how to use Dolphin hdd repair and data recovery tools to fix the firmware corruption and recover lost data.

This was one undetected USB hard drive of PCB 1961, the drive has some slight clicking noises and not detected at all. The user converted to compatible SATA PCB and transferred the ROM chip from USB PCB to SATA PCB. Read more

This is one data recovery case study fixed perfectly for one Dolphin user in Colombia by Dolphin remote technique support system.

Hard drive model: WD7500BPVT-80HXZT3;  Capacity: 750GB;  Head number: 4;
Symptom: ID undetected; firmware module empty; slow detection. Read more