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When we are repairing our patient hard drives and recovering the data, it’s a must we have a correct analysis process and have one accurate conclusion on what’s wrong with the hard drives. Never do as you wonder when you are not sure of this one. Recently we have some clients who have shared with us some of their embarrassing experience before having our hdd repair tools and we are here sharing with all users so that you may avoid the same mistakes and destroy your data.

Let’s check the following failures and symptoms:

* The patient hard drives click each 3-4 seconds;
* The hard drives keeps busy and not ready; Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has just updated its user manual of DFL-WDII hdd firmware repair tool to its latest version-version 2.4 which is properly configured with the latest DFL-WDII latest program.

Within manual v2.4, we’ve added many more explainations on the WD important firmware modules including both modules which are often damaged and required to repair for getting the hard drives ready and make it possible to recover the lost data. Read more

This document is to tell how to regenerate ROM automatically for New WD HDDs of PCB 1640, 1692, 1698 and other newer series without reading the traditional necessary SA ROM modules like modules 102-108, because these modules are already empty in these newer WD hdds and they are useless in helping regenerate the original ROM. Besides, the traditional method to regenerate ROM is limited to recognized hdds but for undetected hdds, the ROM cannot be generated at all. DFL-WDII hdd repair tool regenerates ROM for undetected hdds with the following simple steps: Read more

DFL-WDII Format and Translator Regeneration, Selfscan and Servo Calibration Looking Inside.

Servo Calibration is used to generate module 49 and 4A, it is used only when the 49 or 4A is damaged. When 49 and 4A are damaged, users may get full disk bad sectors when scanning the hdd. Read more

This article is to demonstrate the hdd repair functions of DFL-WD II hdd repair tool on how to repair western digital PCB 1698 and newer series hard drives.

The following is one new hdd repair case study but if users want to recover the data from this hdd, it’s required the users have a backup of the original firmware modules, at least the key data recovery modules of this hdd. In the end of this case study, the hdd is restored and then write back the key data recovery modules, the data can be recovered. Read more

The Chinese version 2.4 has been tested by our Chinese users for two weeks since it’s released  and we have almost fixed the bugs clients have fed back to us and now a stable version of the DFL-WDII version 2.4 is drawing very near within this week.

With the DFL-WDII hdd repair tool version 2.4, users can get not only powerful data recovery functions but hdd repair features to enhance their data recovery and hdd repair capabilities and here within this article, we are going to introduce more about some hdd repair functions: Read more

WD Safe Mode/PCB Mode

Within a professional WD hdd repair tool, it’s usually available for users to operate on the HDD in two modes: Normal mode and Safe mode. We call safe mode as kernel mode too. Read more

We’ve recently received many inquiries from many new IT companies who want to start their data recovery business and asked us to introduce the best data recovery tools to go with.

Some people asked us if there’re any data recovery tools which can recover data from all hard drive brands and support SATA, IDE and USB hard drives, some people even asked us if our DFL-DE data recovery tools can recover SSDs, flash drives. Read more

Since DFL-DE data recovery tool was released in September 7th, 2012, it has gained a wide range of popularity and we are right now planning a major upgrade on this data recovery tool to make it a more productive and cost-effective data recovery equipment.

From the very beginning of the birth of DFL-DE data recovery tool, we have opened the channel for clients and users to submit new features on this tool and until now it has been 2 months we’ve collected features on the first and second version of DFL-DE data recovery tool. Read more

Within the new version-version 2.4 of DFL-WDII hdd repair tool,we have added many unique and powerful hdd repair and data recovery functions as below and users are now able to further enhance their data recovery capabilities with DFL-WDII:

1, The solution to regenerate ROM for PCB1640 and some Newer series is added to version 2.4;
2, For PCB 1692, 1698 and some newer Series, it’s not possible to load ATA module before and then it’s not possible to read the SA or read tracks, but now within DFL-WDII version 2.4, users can load 13 and then load ATA module successfully to fix these kind of damaged WD hard drives; Read more