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Dolphin team has released this WD hdd auto repair tool to worldwide clients who are interested in repairing damaged western digital hard drives with bad sectors, password, smart failures, firmware failures and even weak head failures.

The official product name is called DFL Auto Servo and it’s PCIe design which is able to connect 4 hard drives at the same time and repair the failures automatically and make the drives work in good status. Read more

This is one new successful case from our reseller in Australia-Dolphin data recovery Australia. They have high-success-rate data recovery services offered to all local users in Australia at affordable prices.

Hard drive ID:

ST1500LM003-9YH148; Firmware: CC9F; Capacity: 1.5TB
The patient hard drive gets ready but when entering the COM terminal, the user got SIM error 1009 and RW error. Read more

Great news-DFL-FRP for WD firmware repair tool has now been upgraded again to V2.63!

Within each upgrade, Dolphin Data lab will optimize the software codes, interface data and hardware combination codes to make sure the new firmware repair software works perfectly on the hardware. Read more

Most errors in Seagate F3 hard drives can be easily fixed by SYS editing or clearing. DFL-FRP for Seagate is able to read/write/edit SYS files by ATA and COM ports and also by commands in terminal. The following was some solution by one Chinese user.

Error messages:

Rst 0x10M
RW subfile error 2044
RW subfile error 2044
SIM Error 2044
No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 2002A1A5 Read more

Dolphin Data Lab feels proud to announce that our DFL-FRP for Seagate has had a major upgrade with many more new firmware repair functions to V1.4.

New functions added again on April 18:

01: LBA-CHS, it’s easy for users to find out the head locations of bad sectors like DFL-WD;
02: SYS file read/write by ATA ports are added

Let’s have a preview of the DFL-ST new functions: Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has had a quick fix to one small compatibility issue of the common COM command list  and now users with this new version will easily check the common commands and use them easily by simple clicks.

Users no longer need to input those commands manually and save a lot of time on this one.

Dolphin Data Lab has released this new version of 1.13 and users can download from DFL-ST II user only forum: http://forum.dolphindatalab.com/forum-22.html Read more

Seagate Momentus 5400.6 hard drive repair

Rst 0x08M
RW cmd 0002 req = 89 3E 00 00 17 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 41 08 00 87 4C 09 00 08 41 08 00
opts = 00001121

RW Err = C3160084

RW cmd 0002 req = 89 3E 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 41 08 00 87 4C 09 00 08 41 08 00
opts = 00001121

RW Err = 43110081

RW cmd 0002 req = 75 5F 02 00 17 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 41 08 00 87 4C 09 00 08 41 08 00
opts = 00001121 Read more

We have handled many WD PCB1692 series 2.5″ hard drives with some tips entering the safe mode.

For 2.5″ PCB1692 or series after, it’s not a problem to read ROM when the hard drives are recognized. But it’s a problem when we tried to write ROM and it’s quite often to make the PCB dead by writing ROM to it.

The success rate is not high to enter safe mode by short connecting on 1692 series. The best way to enter safe mode for 1692 series is to separate the PCB, anyway, pls don’t remove the PCB.

Users just need to remove the two screws on the PCB to control the heads contact and insert one biz card and then power on and wait until the motor stops spinning and then the hdd enters kernel mode and next the ROM can be read and written.This also helps to read firmware modules for some hard drives with bad heads. Read more

Undetected hdds can be caused by many reasons such as ROM damage, SA module damage,  incompatible SA and ROM, head damage, etc. This case study is to teach the ROM and SA must match by having the same microcode.

Download PDF of this case study here

The hdd was undetected due to ROM damage and let’s now analyze and follow some steps to fix it.

The first thing we could think was to backup the firmware modules when it’s possible, because whether it’s hdd repair or data recovery, we may use the modules in the operations later. Read more

Hello to respected clients from USA, we have great news for you we have one more USA reseller who is able to offer local sales and technique support to you.

We have recently signed contract with PC Warehouse in NJ USA and they have right now a good stock of our DFL series data recovery tools including DFL-WDII hdd repair tool and DFL-Data Dr. Pro USB3.0 data recovery equipment.

Users can order these tools from them directly for faster shipment and more local and better support due to time zone difference. Read more