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This is one good and typical case study of the new Seagate ST2000LM007 Rosewood LM hard drives with 100% data recovered.

Thanks to Mr. mohammed moiz uddin from India who shared this case study with Dolphin Data Lab. Read more

Seagate F3 hard drive head swap is one very difficult data recovery case for many data recovery engineers, the most difficult part is how to find the donor heads to swap.

With the new software upgrade, users can easily find out the preamp type which is very important to Seagate F3 head swap success rate. Read more

To recover lost data from many USB hard drives, it’s one important step especially when the USB interface is damaged or when the USB hard drives become unstable or have firmware failures, this is because some repair commands are not supported by USB interface.

To convert the USB interface to SATA interface, users have two options: manual wiring conversion or direct SATA PCB swap. Today this article shows the manual method:

WD USB PCB number: 2060-800041-000 Read more

This is one physical data recovery case study from Smart Computech, DFL India on how to recover lost data from head damaged ST2000LM007 case.

When the engineer received the ST2000LM007 case, connected it to the DFL-SRP, power on the drive, it was clicking and then powered off the hdd immediately. From the clicking noises, engineer has learnt it’s head damage and must handle it properly and carefully. Read more

Seagate ST2000LM007 Rosewood hard drives data recovery becomes more and more common in data recovery engineers’ jobs. It is a must for users to have proper Seagate firmware repair tools, Seagate LM Slim hdd head swap tools and data extractor.

In many ST2000LM007 data recovery cases, users need to handle the firmware failures and the most important and difficult part for these drives is to unlock the COM terminal to fix the firmware failure. The following are the unlock steps: Read more

To recover lost data from Seagate mobile HDD ST1000LM035, Rosewood family hard drives, it is a must for users to have proper Seagate firmware repair tools, Seagate LM Slim hdd head swap tools and data extractor.

In many ST1000LM035 data recovery cases, users need to handle the firmware failures and the most important for these drives is to unlock the COM terminal to fix the firmware failure. The following are the unlock steps: Read more

Many pc end users have asked how to update their WD hard drive firmware including changing the HDD ID info including model, SN, capacity, LBA, Smart and even firmware family and version.

Usually users can use the WD factory tool to update the firmware but sometimes many users don’t know how to do, some drives fail to be updated and some other users have special targets to update the firmware with different parameters, such as hard drives from DVR, hard drives from satellites, hard drives from monitoring system, hard drives from cars or from other types of storage systems. Read more

“I have HN-M500MBB and the motor does not turn without the head. How do I turn the motor without the heads in its place?”

This is one question from one Dolphin user who is already using Dolphin hard drive platter cleaning technology and this user has great success with Dolphin tech and has fixed many top physical data recovery cases. Read more

Physical hard drive data recovery is usually considered as one of the most difficult data recovery cases. It requires complete knowledge of data recovery from logical, firmware and physical and needs hands on experience.

Physical hard drive data recovery cases contains the following cases: Read more

To recover lost data from busy undetected hard drives belongs to advanced-level data recovery cases. Users must use professional data recovery hardware tools, specially firmware repair tools to get the busy undetected hard drives ready and detected.

When the hard drives are busy and undetected, it can be mostly firmware corruption or head failure and sometimes PCB or ROM failure, if PCB failure, mostly, the PCB is not original PCB. Read more