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HDD Repair Steps of DFL-WDII To Kill Zones For WD HDD ROYL Series

With DFL-WDII hdd firmware repair tool, users are able to kill zones with bad sectors or zones with bad heads.

You need firstly locate the bad sectors or bad heads by scanning the hdd and then use CHS<>LBA for conversion. After that, you can record the zone information of bad sectors so that you can move forward to ‘Kill Zone’ interface. Read more

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How To Run ARCO With DFL-WDII HDD Repair Tool

What is ARCO?

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ARCO-Advanced Read Communication Optimization. ARCO is usually used when the FW modules have a total replacement, otherwise, you don’t need to run ARCO at all or you may run the ’46 Optimize’only.

Steps to Run ARCO

Run ‘Initialization’ under ‘Online ARCO’ so that all the adaptive parameters, zone parameters, etc can be set to default and all logs will be cleared automatically;

Generation orders to run ARCO is to run ‘6f Optimize’,’6a Optimize’, ‘6b Optimize’,’69 Optimize’,’46 Optimize’. For some drives, you may run ‘6a Optimize’before ‘6f Optimize’if you fail to run ‘6f Optimize’in the beginning.

“One Button ARCO” is a combination of 6B TPI(Density) Correction, 69 Capacity Settings and 46 Optimize. Below ‘One Button ARCO’ in the DFL-WDII hdd repair program, you can find five separated Selftest processes and they are ‘6F Optimize’-TouchDn Correction, ‘6A Optimize’-GAP R/W Correction, ’46 Optimize’-Complete Channel Optimization, ’69 Optimize’-Capacity Settings, ‘6B Optimize’-TPI Correction.

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ARCO Notes

Among them, 6F and 6A are for head optimization to enhance the head R/W capabilities. Read more

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ROM Regeneration HDD Repair Tips

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ROM regeneration is one very important and powerful WD hdd repair feature of DFL-WDII hdd firmware repair tool.

The following hdd repair tips are especially for WD ROYL HDD.

When do we use ROM Regeneration?

When we are going to use ROM regeneration, you may find the following WD HDD damage symptoms. Read more

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ATA Generation Tips-DFL-WDII HDD Firmware Repair Tool

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The following hdd repair tips and steps are created for WD ROYL HDDs and based on the latest WD HDD firmware repair tool-DFL-WDII. ATA regeneration is one hdd repair feature of DFL-WDII. Read more

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HDD Repair-WD HDD Head Depopping Options And Steps

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This article teaches users who are using DFL-WDII HDD firmware repair tool to depop the heads successfully with detailed steps and suggestions in different WD hdd failure situations. It can help users improve their hdd repair and data recovery success rate effectively. Read more

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