ST4000NM0035 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

This is one successful ST4000NM0035 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery case study for one Dolphin user in India.

Patient HDD ID:

Model : ST4000NM0035 03X4440 LENOVO
Serial : ZC187T35
Firmware : LJ87
Capacity : 7814037168 (3726.02GB)
0Bytes
Sector size : 0Bytes
Heads number : 7

FW version : MFAND29B1.LXN1.BW0B61.LJ87
FW package P/N : 100826175

Patient HDD Failure:

The data area was not accessed
MFT was damaged

HDD Repair Tools and Data Recovery Tools used in this case study:

DFL-Seagate hdd repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery hardware tool

ST4000NM0035 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

01: ST4000NM0035 ROM backup and Unlock rom generation;
(This hdd requires one different method to generate the unlock rom, Dolphin users can select mode 2)
02: Write unlock rom and send unlock key to unlock the ST4000NM0035 patient HDD successfully;
03: Backup important Sys files;
04: Fix the translator issue: clear V4 and smart and then regenerate translator;
05: Fix the common slow issue;
06: Enter DFL-DDP data recovery software and scan lost partitions reversely for NTFS;
07: Easily found and recovered all lost data.

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