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This is one data recovery case from one DFL user in Indonesia and it’s actually one Seagate physical hdd firmware repair and data recovery cases.

HDD ID:
Model : ST1000LM035-1RK172
Serial : WKP4P877
Firmware : EB01
Capacity : 281474976710655 (134217728.00GB)
Obtain failed
Sector size : 512
Heads number : Obtain failed

COM Terminal Output Messages:

Bootᅠ0x80M
TCC:002B
[LBA=0x00000001][LBA=0x00000001]
ᅠRECOVᅠServoᅠOp=06DFᅠResp=0005

DSC PASS
ᅠRECOVᅠServoᅠOp=0095ᅠResp=0005

ᅠSIMᅠFileFD=FC000000ᅠErrorCode=43160080ᅠDiscLBA=0000000000000001ᅠDuration=00000649ᅠms
ᅠRECOVᅠServoᅠOp=0195ᅠResp=0005[LBA=0x0000DA01][LBA=0x0000DA01]

ᅠSIMᅠFileFD=FC000000ᅠErrorCode=43160080ᅠDiscLBA=000000000000DA01ᅠDuration=00000048ᅠms
ᅠRECOVᅠServoᅠOp=0095ᅠResp=0005[LBA=0x00000406][LBA=0x00000406]

ᅠSIMᅠFileFD=FC00320DᅠErrorCode=43160080ᅠDiscLBA=0000000000000406ᅠDuration=00000047ᅠms
ᅠRECOVᅠServoᅠOp=0195ᅠResp=0005[LBA=0x0000DE06][LBA=0x0000DE06]

ᅠSIMᅠFileFD=FC00320DᅠErrorCode=43160080ᅠDiscLBA=000000000000DE06ᅠDuration=00000046ᅠms

SimErrorᅠ-ᅠRemainingᅠinᅠBootFW

Performᅠaᅠdoubleᅠdownloadᅠwithoutᅠaᅠpowerᅠcycle

Above hdd failure was caused by head corruption and the user swapped the heads and finally got all lost data back with DFL-DDP data recovery tool.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

Perkenalkan saya Suryanto dari Perusahaan Data Recovery di Indonesia. Alat manakah yang dapat memperbaiki Firmware pada Harddisk Seagate dan WD.

Alat Perbaikan Firmware HDD Seagate
Alat Perbaikan Firmware WD HDD

Bisakah Anda memberikan penawaran harga spesial untuk kami.

Terima kasih

From this article, users can learn about the firmware repair and data recovery solutions of DFL-SRP USB3.0 all in one data recovery equipment to fix Seagate head-damaged hard drives.

Seagate HDD Head failure means the patient drive has something wrong on the hard drive read or write heads and therefore the data area could not be accessed normally.

Head failure can be weak head, single head damage, multiple heads damage or total heads damage. To fix these hdd head failure, users get the following data recovery solutions from Dolphin data recovery hardware tools:

01: Test heads within COM terminal;
02: Edit head map in the ROM;
03: Edit head map in the RAM;
04: Adjust head flying height/head working temperature;
05: Hot swap to access firmware area;
06: Head map setup for imaging good heads first and then imaging weak heads;

All above functions for fixing Seagate hdd failure are available within DFL Seagate hdd firmware repair tool.

07: Seagate head replacement tools and Seagate SLIM hdd head replacement tool for Seagate hdd head swap in clean room;

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

Dolphin Data Lab has created one new Seagate hdd firmware repair function specially for fixing Seagate faulty hard drives with LED status.

For Seagate patient hard drives, users cannot enter F3 T> and cannot do anything further to repair the corrupted firmware modules if the hdd suffers LED failure. It is something like the bluescreen of the computers.

To fix the Seagate LED HDD, there’re several methods:

01: Short connect;
02: Hot swap;
03: Boot ROM write+Loader

Now we create the 4th new and easier method: Disable Subsystem of the SA and this is something like the ‘disable 411’ within WD hard drive firmware repair software, very easy to use and very helpful in many Seagate LED cases.

Users can open DFL Seagate HDD repair tool, enter the software, select ROM Operations>ROM Edit>Disable Subsystem

Next users just need to write new rom to HDD and then users can bypass the LED status, go to COM terminal and enter F3 T>, finally users need to write back the original rom after firmware repair.

Next users can open DFL-DDP data recovery software and get all the lost data back easily.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

Dolphin Data Lab has released the latest WD SMR HDD Module 190 Auto Repair Solution within the DFL-DDP data recovery tool.

According to the feedback of Dolphin users and data recovery engineers worldwide, Western Digital hard drive data recovery cases are mostly associated with the dynamic secondary translator-module 190.

Module 190 corruption can be caused by unstable faulty hard drive status: many bad sectors, weak heads, wrong operations by users, etc.

Whenever users get one WD SMR HDD data recovery case, users need to diagnose the patient hdd correctly to find out if it is firmware issue or physical issue, if physical issue, users need to swap heads first or take other measures to fix the physical issue and then users need to manage to remove the MCU lock.

After removing the MCU lock, users need to follow Dolphin special WD SMR hdd recovery instructions to backup the module 190 (even if the module 190 has many read errors, users need to be patient with module reading) and sometimes, users can select to read valid data only from the module 190 and this can avoid many read errors but this may cause some data loss sometimes.

After the module 190 backup, users need to diagnose the module 190 and try to repair the module 190 corruption. Dolphin Data Lab has released one auto repair solution for the corrupted module 190. Users can check the video demo here to find out how the module 190 auto repair works:

Above new WD SMR hdd firmware repair solution helps users a lot to enhance the efficiency and success rate. Users can download it from the Dolphin user-only forum.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

This Seagate ST2000LM007-1R8174 faulty hard drive was capacity 0 detected and after initial firmware repair there’re many bad sectors by logical scan.

Patient HDD ID:

Model : ST2000LM007-1R8174
Serial : WDZKYE4W
Firmware : EB01
Capacity : 3907029168 (1863.02GB)
Sector size : 4096
Heads number : 4

FW info : Obtained
FW version : R1AEA069E.SDM4.AA4901.EB01
FW package P/N : 100849195
FW ID : 00305567
FW creation date : 2019/01/22
FW creation time : 20:23:31
CFW version : R1AEA069E.SDM4.AA4901.01618036.0
SFW1 version : 0305567.EB01

Modules list : Obtained
Modules number : 57

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:

Undetected/wrongly detected/Many bad sectors

Required HDD repair tools and Data Recovery Tools to recover lost data:

DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool
DFL DDP Data Recovery Equipment

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

1, Backup ROM;
2, Generate unlock ROM and write unlock ROM;
3, Power off and on and send unlock key;
4, Backup important sys files;
5, Clear g-list, clear smart;
6, Initialize ID (ATA), clear media cache, disable vacant active, etc.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

This is one successful western digital undetected hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study from one DFL user in India.

Patient HDD ID:

Model number: WDC WD20NPVZ-00WFZT0
Serial Number: WD-WXN1A776ZHTN
Capacity: 1863GB
Head number: 8
SPT: 1480
Family: SHREKLT

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:

Undetected/data inaccessbile

Hard Drive Firmware Repair Tools and Data Recovery Hardware Tools Required:

DFL Western Digital HDD Repair Tool
DFL DDP Data Recovery Equipment

Hard Drive Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

Backup ROM;
Disable 411 and restart firmware;
Refresh hdd ID;
Backup hard drive firmware modules (important modules);
Slow fix-mode 1;
Enable 411 and restart firmware;
Refresh hdd ID;
Open DFL-DDP data recovery equipment and software;
Set up head map and image good heads and good sectors and then weak heads and sectors;
Finally all lost data was recovered from the faulty WD hard drive.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

This is one nice data recovery case study from one DFL user in India, the patient drive is firmware locked and the data area is not accessed.

Model : ST1000VX005-2EZ102
Serial : Z9CC69D2
Firmware : CV11
Capacity : 1953525168 (931.51GB)
Sector size : 4096
Heads number : 2

Rst 0x40M
2Sync:01 0E

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5
Retry delay

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5
Retry delay
LD: Size:00000028 HBlocks:0000 Size:002BD17F HBlocks:0032 Size:00282A49 HBlocks:0032 FlashRestore 00000000 00000028 ECBD
PP: Size:0000B400 HBlocks:0000 FlashRestore
PVTSize: 000150C8 CompSize: 000002B2 DeCompSize: 000150C8 00000000 000002B2 9E03
2Sync:00 04
DSP022B
No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 0002A1A1
2Sync:01 0C
Boot 0x40M

SpinUp
RECOV Servo Op=0100 Resp=0005
RECOV Servo Op=0055 Resp=0005[LBA=0x00006B6F]N[LBA=0x00006C28]N0[LBA=0x00006D5D]N0[LBA=0x000070A1]N0[LBA=0x000070C2]N0[LBA=0x0000737C]N0[LBA=0x000073EB]N0[LBA=0x000074EE]N0[LBA=0x00007500]N0[LBA=0x0000775C]N0

Trans
Rst 0x40M
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E

(P) SATA Reset

LD: Size:00000028 HBlocks:0000 Size:002BD17F HBlocks:0032 Size:00282A49 HBlocks:0032 DiscRestore 00000000 00000028 04ED
PP: Size:0000B400 HBlocks:0000 DiscRestore
PVTSize: 000150C8 CompSize: 000002B2 DeCompSize: 000150C8 00000000 000002B2 9E03
2Sync:00 04
DSP022C^c

ASCII Diag mode

F3 T>^l

Diagnostic Port Locked

To fix above patient drive, the user used DFL Seagate hdd repair tool to backup rom, generate unlock rom, write unlock ROM, power off and on, send unlock key, backup important SYS files, clear g-list, regenerate translator, etc.

After fixing the firmware area, the users tested the data area and found there’re some bad sectors in the front, the middle and ending parts of data areas were accessible.

The user set up head map, edited the LBA range to image the patient hdd by heads within DFL-DDP data recovery equipment and finally most data was recovered, only some system files were missing which are not important at all.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

Dolphin Data Lab has released the new DFL all in one data recovery software V20230301 to work with the data recovery hardware tools.

The new V20230301 data recovery software has been uploaded to DFL user-only forum and users can login the forum to upgrade to the latest. It’s strongly recommended for all DFL users to upgrade to latest for the best firmware repair and data recovery success rate.

What’s new in this new software upgrade?

01: ST8000NM0105 G001 G004 Firmware Repair Support Added to DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool, other firmware versions can be unlocked with old software. There’s now a new mode option-Mode 2 when users are trying to generate the unlock ROM, users need to select mode 2;
02: Seagate SMR hdd format data recovery such as rosewood EB01 format recovery;
03: Seagate weak head repair for new F3 families for data recovery purpose, it is very helpful for some weak head cases which don’t require head swap;
04: DFL-DDP image setting enhancement: enhance success rate for the following drives and cases:
WD SMR drives with all sectors 0000, Seagate drives SEDU, 241A, etc.
05: Full firmware repair and data recovery software codes improvement to get the software working more smoothly and excellently;

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

This is one Seagate Rosewood portable hard drive-ST2000LM007 and when our engineer was trying to backup the firmware modules, it’s very slow with some slight noises.

It seems like some noises from the heads, seems like some kind of damage on the heads but actually not.

Patient HDD ID:

Model number: ST2000LM007-1R8174
Serial number: WDZVJ06Z
Firmware: EB01
Capacity: 3907029168
Sector Size: 4096
Heads number: 4
Family: Janus (AF)

ST2000LM007 Error messages:

Rstᅠ0x80M

T:0x0000 0x3FFFFFFF

FTU
TCC:0014:001D EMCDataErr:0000000C

PrgF

(P)ᅠSATAᅠReset

RAWᅠOFF

ᅠPASS

ᅠBothᅠcopyᅠisᅠsame!ᅠᅠᅠLPCDisc=01ᅠ1A326711ᅠ00C5

PrgF

6GbᅠMaxᅠSpeedᅠloweredᅠtoᅠ3GbᅠforᅠIntelᅠbug

SendᅠStatus:ᅠCOMRESETᅠseen

CSpd=ᅠ3Gbps

FIS34ᅠ
IDLE1
VC0

XI2
VC1

VC2Up
IDLE2
VC0

VC1

VC2Up
XI2
TCC:0014:0019 EMCDataErr:00000000

FAFH_TRIGGER_POWER_UP
IDLE2
VC0

It’s very easy to fix above firmware failure and get the ST2000LM007 patient hdd repaired by DFL Seagate hdd repair tool.

All users need to do is to go to the ‘Defects Management’>Initialize ID (ATA) and it’s just one simple click to fix above issue.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab