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For many Seagate hard drives, the LED errors output when users try to reset the smart using N1 command under  level 1 within the COM terminal.

The following are some common terminal messages:

Boot 0x40M

Spin Up[0x000065B4][0x00006A20][0x00006E8C] Read more

This Toshiba DT01ACA100 patient HDD has weak heads and when trying to access the data , it is not possible and full of bad sectors.

When the DFL user in India found the hdd full of bad sectors, he was considering it as firmware issue such as the common Toshiba failure: Glist or translator failure. Read more

This is another successful Seagate hdd data recovery case study with many bad sectors but finally successful with DFL-DDP data recovery tool. This is one remote case study for one Dolphin user in Norway.

Patient HDD ID:

Model number-ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD Read more

This is one of users from India, he received a ST1000DM010 drive that was diagnostic port locked, this drive belong to Pharaoh_Oasis family, cannot scan or access to any data. And his client told him that all the files on the drive are very important. Read more

This is another Seagate ST1000LM035 capacity 0 hdd data recovery case study for one Dolphin user in Greece by Dolphin data recovery remote system.

HDD ID:

Model number-ST1000LM035-1RK172 Read more

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