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New Method to Read and Write ROM for Seagate and WD HDDs

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Users have different options to read and write ROM from Seagate and Western Digital hard drives.

For many hdds, users can use firmware repair tools to read and write ROM directly.

For some new hdds, firmware repair tools don’t support to read or write ROM due to SED lock, MCU lock or other PCB issue or ROM chip issue. At this situation, users can only use flash programmer to read and write rom from the ROM chips.

For traditional flash programmers, users need to solder the ROM chips off and put the ROM chip to the chip holder to read and write rom.

Not all engineers have good soldering skills and Dolphin team offered Chip-on HDD Flash Programmer Smart, users just need to remove the PCB and then users can use the pin reader to read and write rom without soldering the rom chips off.

Now users don’t need to remove PCB, don’t need to solder the ROM chips off, users just need to install the HDD ROM programming clip adapter to the HDD and then users can use Chip-on HDD Flash Programmer Smart and its software to read and write ROM easily.

Users can read details of HDD ROM programming clip adapters here.

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Seagate ST4000VX013 B2 Hard Drive Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one Seagate ST4000VX013 hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study for one Dolphin user in India.

Patient HDD ID:
Model number: ST4000VX013-2XG104
Family: B2
Capacity: 4TB

ST4000VX013 Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:
Clicking noises; Spin up and down; partitions lost

ST4000VX013 Required HDD Repair Tools and Data Recovery Equipment
DFL-Seagate hdd repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

ST4000VX013 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps
01: Backup head adaptive module;
02: Swap heads and write donor adaptive data by DFL-Seagate hdd repair tool;
03: Backup sys35 NGlist;
04: Clear g-list and regenerate translator;
05:  Repair data offset;
06: Disable vacant active;
07: Reverse scan to get all lost partitions by DFL-DDP data recovery equipment.

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Western Digital WD10EZEX PCB1824 Undetected HDD Data Recovery Tips

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This case study teaches how to recover lost data from one undetected Western Digital WD10EZEX hard drive.

Patient HDD ID:
Model number-WD10EZEX-00RKKA0
Family: Tressels
Head number: 2
PCB: 2060-771824

Patient HDD symptoms:
Undetected

Western Digital hdd firmware repair and data recovery steps:

1, Connect patient hdd to DFL-WD hdd firmware repair tool;
2, Power on patient hdd, the patient hdd was not detected, load loaders automatically by selecting the donor firmware path with the same microcode;
3, Refresh Id or re-enter the program without power off the hdd, the patient hdd was still not detected;
4, Test the firmware modules and found module 11 and 12 were damaged;
5, Found donor firmware module 11 and 12 of the same microcode and wrote the modules to patient HDD;
6, Power off and on and refresh the HDD ID, the patient HDD was repaired successfully;
7, Connect patient HDD to DFL-DDP data recovery hardware and all lost data was recovered.

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WD20JDRW-11C7VS0 Undetected Spin Up and Down HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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Case study name: WD20JDRW-11C7VS0 810082 USB undetected hdd firmware repair and data recovery steps

Patient HDD ID：

Model number-WD20JDRW-11C7VS0
Capacity: 2TB
PCB: 2060-810082

Failure symptoms:

Undetected, spin up and down, data area was not accessed

HDD Firmware repair tools and data recovery tools required:

DFL-WD HDD firmware repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

HDD firmware repair and data recovery steps:

01: Convert the USB PCB to SATA interface;
02: Backup the original rom and disable 411;
03: Backup important firmware modules, specially module 190;
04: Use the latest DFL-DDP to repair the module 190 to get one new T2data file;
05:  …
06: After above step, the patient hdd was detected properly and the spin up and down issue was fixed as well;
07: Enter DFL-DDP data recovery software and set up one new disk image project;
08: Set T2data auto loading to RAM;
09; Refresh data area and the data area was accessible.

Full case study is available within the Dolphin user-only forum here

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Easier WD SMR HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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After Dolphin Data Lab released the latest G3 WD SMR HDD USB to SATA data recovery adapter and its software, it becomes easier and easier for Dolphin users to recover lost data from WD SMR USB hard drives.

Helpful videos to learn more about the G3 WD SMR USB HDD adapters and its software:

Video 01: How to Install G3 WD USB to SATA Data Recovery Adapter 
Video 02: How to Image Extract Lost Data From WD USB HDDS Faster and More Stably
Video 03: Latest data recovery assistant software for WD SMR USB HDDs

To recover lost data more easily from WD SMR USB hdds, users can try the following steps：

01: Connect G3 adapter to WD SMR USB hdds by USB type c cable;
02: Click connect device and Read ROM directly by G3 adapter software;
03: Generate unlock rom by DFL-WD hdd firmware repair software;
04: Click ‘Block 411 Write’ , select the generated unlock rom and write rom by G3 adapter software;
05: Close ROM operations by G3 adapter software and go to DFL-WD hdd repair software;
06: Lock UA writing, backup important firmware modules, specially module 190;
07: Test firmware modules and repair;
08: Open DFL-DDP data recovery software for disk image or file extraction, load 190 to ram auto if there’s all sectors 0000 issue.

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Data Recovery Solutions for Toshiba HDDs with Head Failure

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When users receive Toshiba hard drive data recovery cases of head failure, users need to diagnose the hdd head failure properly and use correct data recovery solutions.

Toshiba hdd failure symptoms:

Clicking noises;
Busy;
Working slowly;
Undetected/wrongly detected.

HDD Repair tools and data recovery tools required to fix Toshiba patient drives with head failure:

DFL-Toshiba HDD firmware repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

Data Recovery Solutions required to fix Toshiba patient drives with head failure:

01: Toshiba HDD Heads read/write test;

02: Edit head map within SA area;
03: Set auto virtual translator within disk image settings for unstable Toshiba patient hard drives;
04: Set up head map for imaging good heads first and then image weak heads;
05: Swap heads by Toshiba hdd head replacement tools within clean room.

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Data Recovery Solutions for Hitachi HDDs with Head Failure

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Dolphin data recovery hardware tools offer very good solutions to repair and recover lost data from Hitachi hard drives with head failure.

Hard drive symptoms with head failure:

Patient HDD keeps Busy
Patient HDD undetected
Patient HDD works very slowly and has many or regular bad sectors

HDD Repair tools and data recovery tools required to fix patient Hitachi drives with head failure:

DFL-Hitachi HDD firmware repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

Data Recovery Solutions required to fix patient Hitachi drives with head failure:

Head test-Menu path-DFL Hitachi firmware repair software>Hitachi ARM/IBM>Firmware Operations>Head Test;

Edit head map within NVRAM, this function is very helpful in many cases to fix hitachi drives with single head failure or when the patient drive is undetected but ready;

Set up head map to image good heads first and then weak head, for many Hitachi head swap cases, users need to use the auto virtual translator solutions;

Swap heads by Hitachi head replacement tools within clean room environment to fix the patient drives with total head damage,

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Data recovery school from Brazil request to have Dolphin data recovery solutions

Hello Sir,

I am Luiz, based in Brazil, and we are a data recovery school. We offer tools from partner manufacturers and would like to invite you to a partnership, including your tools in our offerings catalog. This way, we can present your solutions for HDD and flash data repair and recovery.

We would like to request permission to translate some of your videos into Portuguese and Spanish. If you agree, we will download a few videos from your YouTube channel, where you showcase your tools, and present them to our clients. This will establish a reselling and independent teaching partnership.

Could you please provide information on your best Dolphin tools for HDD refurbishment (including bad block cleaning) and their respective prices? We would also appreciate receiving detailed information about your data recovery products and tools.

We eagerly await your response.

Best regards

To answer above email:

Dolphin team mainly offer data recovery hardware tools and hard drive firmware repair tools and some users use the firmware repair tools for HDD refurbishment.

Dolphin data recovery tools and firmware repair tools are very easy to use and very good for education purpose with many free data recovery training videos, case studies and user manuals.

Detailed datasheets and quote details have been emailed to the new client.

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New Seagate Hard Drive Firmware Repair Videos and Data Recovery Videos free for DFL Users

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Dolphin Data Lab has created and released many new Seagate hard drive firmware repair videos and data recovery videos free for DFL users to download.

These videos are very helpful for users to understand the Seagate hard drive failures, firmware repair and data recovery solutions and users can use all DFL firmware repair tools and data recovery hardware tools more effectively and efficiently.

The following are the new videos added on Dolphin file share platform:

Data-Recovery-from-Head-Damaged-Seagate-Hard-Drives.7z
How-to-Fix-Seagate-ST5000DM000-Busy-HDD.7z
How-to-Fix-ST2000LM007-Slow-Firmware-Backup-and-Click-Problem.7z
How-to-get-the-head-map-of-Seagate-hard-drives.7z
How-to-Recover-lost-data-from-Seagate-ST4000DM004.7z
How-to-recover-lost-data-from-ST1000LM035-1RK172-Capacity-0-by-DFL-SRP-USB3.0-data-recovery-equipment.mp4.7z
How-to-Reset-Smart-Repair-Firmware-Corruption-For-ST4000NM0053.7z
How-to-Unlock-Seagate-Firmware-Area-Within-DFL-DDP-Data-Recovery-Program.7z
How-to-Work-with-Seagate-Patient-HDDs-for-Data-Recovery-At-High-speed.7z
Latest-Seagate-Hard-Drive-Firmware-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Solutions.7z
Seagate Constellation ES.3 SED HDD Firmware and Data Recovery Steps.mp4.7z
Seagate Rosewood HDD Head Map Editing in ROM by DFL-Seagate HDD Repair Tool.7z
SEAGATE ST4000VM004 ST4000VX005 B2 HDD LED 0X0BD SPIN UP AND DOWN HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps.7z
Seagate-External-Portable-Hard-Drive-ST1000LM038-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-LX-SSHD-Firmware-Unlock-Steps-by-DFL-Seagate-HDD-Repair-Tool.7z
Seagate-Portable-ST2000LM007-LED-HDD-Firmware-Repair-and-Data-Recovery.7z
Seagate-ROM-RAM-Loading-Slow-Fix.7z
Seagate-Rosewood-Portable-HDD-Partial-Sector-Repair-and-Recovery.7z
Seagate-SMR-Hard-Drive-Format-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-ST500LT012-Capacity-0-Head-0-Damaged-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-ST500LX025-SSHD-Firmware-Unlock-and-ROM-Backup-At-High-Speed.7z
Seagate-ST1000LM035-1RK172-LED-Undetected-HDD-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-ST1000LM035-Rosewood-AF-Capacity-0-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-ST1500LM012-1R817G-HDD-Recovery Steps.7z
Seagate-ST2000LM007-HDD-Head-Damage-Diagnosis-Recovery.7z
Seagate-ST2000VX000-Error-HDD-Firmware-Backup.7z
ST1000LM035-1RK172-EB01-Capacity-0-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps-Case-Study-from-Indonesia-Data-Recovery-Engineer.7z
ST1000LM035-1RK172-FW-LVM1-Capacity 0-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST1000LM035-All-Sectors-0-HDD-Repair-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST1000LM035-Partial-Sector-Access-Auto-Repair.7z
ST1000LM048-2E7172-LED-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST1000VX005-2EZ102-HDD-Firmware-Repair-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST1500LM012-1R817G-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-Busy-Inaccess-Data-Area-HDD-Repair-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-Full-Disk-Red-Blocks-HDD-Repair-Data-Recovery.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-Janus-AF-Family-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-Seagate-Rosewood-Portable-HDD-Partial-Sector-Access-Data-Recovery.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-WDZCVF7K-Partial-Sector-Access-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST2000LM007-SP-Regen-FAIL-Update-Mask-Data-Recovery-Steps_.7z
ST5000DM000-1FK178-HDD-Firmware-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST5000LM000-2AN170-Hard-Drive-Firmware-Access-and-Repair.7z
ST8000DM004-2CX188-Busy-Undetected-HDD-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST8000NM0105-Unlock-Video.7z
More data recovery videos are coming…
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DFL-SRP Seagate HDD Translator Fix Solutions

Seagate works in two modes: ATA mode and COM mode, DFL-SRP USB3.0 for Seagate can repair both old 7200.10 and before, and new Seagate F3 hard drives. Users can Edit model number, SN, remove password, repair bad sectors, repair firmware failures, etc with DFL Seagate firmware repair tool.

This article is mainly introducing how to fix translator damaged Seagate hard drives by DFL Seagate firmware repair tool. Read more

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