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For WD PCB1698 series, it’s one difficult data recovery job if the hard drive is not detected or keeps busy. So far it’s almost not possible for any other firmware repair tools to repair this kind of drive and get lost data back.

Situation becomes worse if these kind of PCB1698 hard drives don’t have the cache loader-module 13 and if the module dir is missing or damaged without backup, no other tools except DFL-WDII can repair such kind of hdd failure and recover the data.

Here in this article let’s discuss how to repair undetected or un-ready WD PCB1698 hard drives with DFL-WD II hdd repair tool.

Option 1: Users can use the universal loader-module 11 and ROM offered by Dolphin Data Lab deal with the patient hard drives.

With the offered loader and ROM: If the hdd can reach readiness, users can access the hdd, load the module 11 and then the program will automatically detect the dir module and give users to import one dir module or the DFL program will search it from the tracks users assign. Read more

HDD Repair: Fixing Dead HDD PCB, Dead ROM Cases With The Help Of High-speed USB Programmer Pro.

Within 2013, Dolphin Data Lab is offering better-supported, better-functioned and better-priced hdd repair tools and data recovery tools to all engineers worldwide.

Dolphin Data Lab has named the first month of 2013-January as the gift month to all clients who are going to use DFL series data recovery tools. Within this month, we are offering the high-speed USB programmer Pro. for free if you buy DFL-DE data recovery tool and DFL-WDII hdd firmware repair tool. Read more

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