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This is one data recovery case offered by Dolphin Bangladesh local sales and support center, the engineer was using the DFL-SRP USB3.0 for data extraction to detect the 8TB Seagate hard drive and recover the data.

Within the SRP DE interface, the engineer could easily connect the COM cable and enter the COM terminal mode and enter the F3 T> to input commands to repair the common firmware failures. Read more

This is one Seagate ST3320813AS hard drive data recovery case study, recovering lost data from capacity 0 Seagate drives.

To recover lost data from Seagate hard drives, the very first thing users need to learn is to connect the COM port and get the terminal mode working. Users need to enter the T> or F3 T>, as this is one F3 hard drive and therefore, users need to enter F3 T>. Read more

This is one WD 1TB SATA hard drive(WD10EVVS) real case study and when Dolphin data recovery engineers tried to scan the patient hard drives, and the scanning was very slow with some slight clicking noises and there’re many bad sectors and some surface area are weak too.

For such kind of sensitive weak hard drives with even downgraded magnetism, it is a must to image the patient hard drives first, the most important part for image is the selective head image. Read more

Dolphin team just helped one Dolphin user from Ethiopia who brought his data recovery case to the Dolphin head office in Chengdu and the client got all the data back.

In the week just before National Day holiday, an Ethiopian client visited Dolphin Data Lab to learn more about our data recovery tools and hope our engineers to repair his damaged WD hard drive with some important data in it. Read more

Symptoms: dropped Seagate portable hdd, after remove the external box, it is actually one Seagate SATA 5400.6 hard drive.

Model: ST9500325AS
Firmware:0003BSM1
S/N:S2WHFPHP
Head Count: 4 heads
Firmware Version: 0003BSM1 Read more

The client wanted to recover the lost pictures and videos during his traveling to Tibet which was his first time by driving motorcycle and it was wonderful and unforgettable experience for him, so he wants to get those valuable memories back at any cost.

Model: Toshiba MQ01ABB200
SN:14KST6UET
Firmware: AY000U
Capacity: 2TB
Head Count: 8 heads Read more

This is another successful hdd repair case study to repair western digital WD3200AVVS-62L2B0-WCAV16752981 hard drives automatically by DFL Auto HDD repair tool.

Model     :  WD3200A
FW Rev    :  03.04E03
S/N       :  WD-WCAV14187751
Capacity  :  298GB(625142448)
Cylinders :  16383  Heads:  16  SPT:  63 Read more

Object: Data Recovery from Scratched Seagate 500DM002 Hard Drive.
Power on test: 3 Seconds’ power on test, clicking with symptom of scratches, power off immediately to avoid further damages.
Basic Status: Opened in the clean room, the scratches are visible on the outer tracks and under the microscope there are also some scratches on the inner tracks. Read more

This is one live Raid 5 data recovery case study using DFL-SRP USB3.0 data recovery equipment. We have a RAID5 array with 5 drives, one of them is offline. After swapping this offline drive, a second drive is offline, causing this drive
partition E and F are corrupted, in which important data is stored. Now we will try to rebuild RAID5 with DFL DE RAID function.

Step 1.
From DFL-DE toolbar menu, click Data Extraction and New RAID Project. Read more

More and more people start to use DFL-SRP USB3.0 for Seagate to repair Seagate hard drive bad sectors, reset smart, remove password, check health status, repair firmware failures, etc. This is one case study on how to use DFL-SRP USB3.0 for Seagate to repair bad sectors.

Hard drive ID information within this case study:

Model number: ST3500418AS  SN: 5VMHDED6 Read more