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When you receive one Hitachi patient HDD to recover the lost data, the following questions help to test if you are one qualified Hitachi hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

01: Are you able to recognize the Hitachi HDD family?
02: Are you able to recognize the old and new Hitachi drives and their differences?
03: What’re the Hitachi HDD important firmware modules?
04: How to remove password of Hitachi ARM and IBM hard drives?
05: How to recover lost data from Hitachi hdds with partial sector access issue?
05: How to recover lost data from Hitachi hdds with weak heads?
06: If the PCB, ROM chip or ROM contents are corrupted, is it possible to recover the lost data?
07: How to find donor PCB/firmware/heads?
08: How to fix Hitachi busy HDDs?
09: How to recover Hitachi scratched hard drives?
10: How to fix Hitachi clicking hard drives?
11: How to recover Hitachi contaminated hard drives?

You can test yourself by answering above questions and see if you are one qualified Hitachi hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

When you receive one Samsung patient HDD to recover the lost data, the following questions help to test if you are one qualified Samsung hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

01: Are you able to recognize the Samsung HDD family, PCB number?
02: Are you able to recognize the old and new Seagate Samsung drives and their differences?
03: What’re the Samsung HDD important firmware modules?
04: How to recover lost data from Samsung hdds with weak heads?
05: How to recover lost data from Samsung hdds with LED error?
06: If the PCB, ROM chip or ROM contents are corrupted, is it possible to recover the lost data?
07: How to find donor PCB/firmware/heads?
08: How to fix Samsung busy HDDs?
09: How to recover Samsung scratched hard drives?
10: How to fix Samsung clicking hard drives?
11: How to recover Samsung contaminated hard drives?

You can test yourself by answering above questions and see if you are one qualified Samsung hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

When you receive one Toshiba patient HDD to recover the lost data, the following questions help to test if you are one qualified Toshiba hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

01: Are you able to recognize the Toshiba HDD family?
02: Are you able to recognize Toshiba Hitachi drives?
03: How to edit head map of Toshiba drives?
04: Toshiba sshd is detected but the data area is not accessible, what to do?
05: What’re the Toshiba HDD important firmware modules?
06: How to recover lost data from Toshiba hdds with weak heads?
07: How to recover lost data from Toshiba hdds with full-disk bad sectors?
08: If the PCB, ROM chip or ROM contents are corrupted, is it possible to recover the lost data?
09: How to find Toshiba donor PCB/firmware/heads?
10: How to fix Toshiba busy HDDs?
11: How to recover Toshiba scratched hard drives?
12: How to fix Toshiba clicking hard drives?
13: How to recover Toshiba contaminated hard drives?

You can test yourself by answering above questions and see if you are one qualified Toshiba hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

When you receive one WD patient HDD to recover the lost data, the following questions help to test if you are one qualified WD hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

01: Are you able to recognize the WD HDD family, PCB number?
02: Are you able to recognize the old and new SED drives and their differences?
03: How to enter kernel mode/PCB mode/factory mode of WD drives?
04: How to unlock WD HDD SED drives?
05: How to unlock WD SMR MCU locked drives?
06: What’re the WD HDD important firmware modules?
07: How to test/read/write/edit firmware modules?
08: How to get modules from tracks and convert modules to tracks?
09: How to fix slow issue of old and new WD smr drives?
10: How to fix data encrypted hard drives?
11: How to recover lost data from WD hdds with weak heads?
12: How to recover lost data from WD hdds with full-disk bad sectors?
13: If the PCB, ROM chip or ROM contents are corrupted, is it possible to recover the lost data?
14: How to find donor PCB/firmware/heads?
15: How to fix WD busy HDDs?
16: How to recover WD scratched hard drives?
17: How to fix WD clicking hard drives?
18: How to recover WD contaminated hard drives?

You can test yourself by answering above questions and see if you are one qualified WD hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

When you receive one Seagate patient HDD to recover the lost data, the following questions help to test if you are one qualified Seagate hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

01: What is the working mode of Seagate hard drive?
02: Are you able to recognize Seagate old and new hard drives and their families?
03: How to diagnose the patient Seagate hard drives by COM terminal output error messages?
04: What are the common firmware repair commands and how to use them?
05: If the patient drives are password protected or SED locked, how to continue the firmware repair?
06: Which commands or firmware repair functions may damage data?
07: How can you find out if the patient drive is original or someone has worked on it and changed some physical components or even changed the firmware?
08: What are the important firmware modules and how to read, write and edit them?
09: How to find out donor/compatible firmware modules, donor PCB and donor heads?
10: How to repair weak heads?
11: How to fix Seagate slow hdd issue?
12: How to understand different bad sector types and repair them?
13: If the patient Seagate drives cannot enter T> or F3 T> prompt, what to do?
14: If the patient drives don’t spin up, what to do?
15: If the patient drives are clicking, what to do?
16: How to recover scratched Seagate hard drives?
17: How to recover contaminated Seagate hard drives?

You can test yourself by answering above questions and see if you are one qualified Seagate hdd firmware repair and data recovery engineer.

The patient HDD-Seagate Rosewood ST2000LM007 has suffered severe LED error in the COM terminal, users cannot enter F3 T> and cannot continue the hdd firmware repair and data recovery.

To fix the LED error, there’s one very helpful rom function-‘Disable Subsystem’.
Function path: DFL Seagate HDD repair tool>ROM Operations>ROM Edit>Disable Subsystem

Before using the function, users need to import the unlock ROMO, After using the function, users can save the new rom and write the new ROM, power off and on, users can easily enter F3 T>

Next users can backup the important firmware modules and start the firmware repair. There’re many one click quick solutions available under the Common Menu.

After the firmware repair, users can use DFL-DDP data recovery software to extract lost data easily.

This is one successful Western Digital hard drive data recovery case study from one DFL user in Peru.

The patient HDD ID:
Model number: WD10SPZX-22Z10T1
PCB number: 800066
Capacity: 1TB

Failure Symptom:
HDD got error state when read modules;
Power Restart constantly

Hdd repair tool and data recovery tools used in this case study:
DFL-WD hdd repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

HDD repair and data recovery steps:

01: Lock UA writing, disable 411;
02: Firmware restart and re-enter the software;
03: Backup module 190 by ABA(select valid data of 190);
04: Clear module 190 manually, generate checksum, check module and write;
05: Enable 411;
06: Firmware restart;
07: Enter DFL-DDP data recovery software, repair module 190 auto, got repaired T2data;
08: Load T2data in RAM, and data sectors were recovered.

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Samsung USB HDD PCB numbers:  BF41-00300A
Samsung USB HDD Compatible SATA PCB number:  BF41-00306A

USB PCB numbers:  BF41-00365A,BF41-00373A
Compatible SATA PCB number: BF41-00354A

USB PCB numbers: BF41-00325A,BF41-00357A,BF41-00311A
Compatible SATA PCB number: BF41-00315A

USB PCB numbers: BF41-00282A
Compatible SATA PCB number: BF41-00249B

USB PCB numbers: BF41-00231B
Compatible SATA PCB number: BF41-00157A

USB PCB numbers: 100725482,100760718
Compatible SATA PCB number: 100720903

USB PCB numbers: 100740633
Compatible SATA PCB number: 100739392

USB PCB numbers:  100765396
Compatible SATA PCB number: 100767980

Here is one recommended package of Samsung 2.5″ USB HDD compatible SATA PCBs, users can easily convert the USB to SATA interface.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

Toshiba USB HDD PCB numbers: G0034A,G0039A,G0089A,G0090A,G4330A
Toshiba USB HDD Compatible SATA PCB number: G4311A

USB PCB numbers: G3959A
Compatible SATA PCB number: G3918A

USB PCB numbers: G003250A,G003189A,G003296A
Compatible SATA PCB number: G003138A

USB PCB numbers: G3448A,G003309A
Compatible SATA PCB number: G003235C or G003235B

USB PCB numbers: G003054A
Compatible SATA PCB number: G002825A

Here is one complete package of Toshiba 2.5″ USB HDD compatible SATA PCBs, users can easily convert the USB to SATA interface.

Any question is welcome to sales@dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

Dolphin Data Lab has released new software upgrade for DFL data recovery tools and it’s V2.401-20241018.

What’s new in this version-20241018?

01: Quick access to existing task is added;
02: Head map list with detailed head sections are added, users can easily select or cancel any sectors for the best imaging result;
03: New Seagate hdd firmware unlock is added;
04: Software interface is further improved;
05: New WD SMR HDD MCU unlock is added;
06…etc

Download new Data recovery software here.

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