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WD SMR HDD WD40EZAZ 810011 Spin Up and Down Data Recovery Steps

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This is one very successful Western Digital SMR hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study for one Dolphin user in India.

WD SMR Patient hdd id:

Model number-WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0
PCB number: 810011

WD SMR Patient hdd Failure symptoms:

Spin up and down and not possible to access data area

Firmware repair tools and data recovery tools used in this case study:

DFL-SRP for WD firmware repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

WD SMR Patient hdd firmware repair and data recovery steps:

01: Backup up original WD SMR Patient hdd ROM by ROM chip pin reader;
02: Generate unlock rom by DFL-SRP for WD firmware repair tool；
03: Write unlock ROM to original 810011 PCB;
04: Connect PCB only, enter DFL-WD firmware repair software by kernel mode and then disable 411;
05: Install the PCB to patient HDD and backup key firmware modules, specially module 190;
06: Repair module 190(unique 190 repair assistant);
07: Fix SMR slow issue;
08: Auto load 190 to ram within DFL-DDP data recovery tool disk image setting;
09: Access to data area and all lost partitions and folders were available for immediate easy data recovery.

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WD82PURX-78GVLY0 DaHua DVR HDD Data Recovery Steps

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This is one 8TB WD82PURX-78GVLY0 DaHua DVR hard drive and the user couldn’t access this DVR drive in their DVR device and all videos were lost.

To recover all the lost valuable videos from this Western Digital helium DVR hard drives, the user selected Dolphin DVR data recovery software to recover the lost videos.

The user mount the DVR drive by DFL-SRP data recovery hardware to PC and the Dolphin DVR data recovery software detected the DVR drive and listed it, the user extended all the lost 4 partitions and recovered all the lost videos. Please note the user needs to select the partition one by one to recover.

Video Guide: WD82PURX 78GVLY0 DaHua DVR HDD Data Recovery Steps

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How to Recover WD10JMVW-11AJGS2 Encrypted Hard Drives

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WD10JMVW-11AJGS2 is one Western Digital SED laptop hard drive. It’s very common to deal with the firmware corrupted cases of these WD SED HDDs.

For this patient WD SED HDD, the firmware area couldn’t be accessed directly, the rom couldn’t be read either. The patient HDD was detected wrongly and running slowly.

To fix the firmware issue, the engineer short connected tv9 and tv10, read rom, disable 02, slow fix, firmware restart and the patient hdd was detected properly by DFL-WD hdd repair tool.

After the firmware repair, the user opened the DFL-DDP data recovery software but the result was bad because no partitions were detected, no folders, no files.

The user viewed the source drive sector 0 and didn’t find any partition mark of 55 AA and other hex data was not normal at encrypted status. The user tried using the auto decryption function but the software asked for inputing the software and finally failed.

The user went back to DFL-WD firmware repair software, went to FW Operations>Module Editing>Edit HDD ID>Security Subsystem, ticked the SED and firmware restart, went to DFL-DDP, the lost partition, folders and files were all available for immediate data recovery.

Video instruction of How to Recover WD10JMVW Encrypted Hard Drives

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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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