For data recovery from all WD SMR HDDs, it’s necessary to learn how to read the original rom, how to generate unlock rom, how to write unlock rom and unlock firmware area, how to backup firmware resources.
Tools used for WD SMR HDD Firmware Unlock and Backup:
DFL-WD HDD firmware repair tool
HDD ROM chip pin reader
Users can learn from the video here on how to do all above
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WD SMR 2060-810035 Spyglass II HDDs have both MCU lock and SED lock. To repair firmware corruption and recover lost data, users need to fix the MCU lock first: swap with special 2060-810035 firmware unlock PCB or writing unlock rom to bypass the MCU lock by DFL-WD hdd repair tool.
Please note: not all 810035 PCBs support MCU lock bypass by unlock ROM.
Most common HDD failures for WD SMR 2060-810035 Spyglass II HDDs:
The data area is not accessed;
The data area is full of 0000;
The drive is undetected due to 190 corruption;
Physical head damage.
Most common functions and solutions used in repairing and recovering WD SMR hard drives:
Read/write ROM by HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader;
Generate unlock ROM by DFL WD hdd repair tool;
Sort nodes within module 190 by LBA/tree;
Scan missing nodes;
Delete overlapped nodes/wrong nodes;
Repair wrong nodes, etc.
Users can save all the modification to one new module 190 and then users can write the new module 190 or load the module 190 or T2data to RAM by DFL-DDP data recovery equipment for immediate data recovery.
WD SMR 2060-810035 Spyglass II HDD Common PCB number and Models:
PCB number: 2060-810035-000 REV P0
WD40NDZW-11BCSS0 USB 3.0
WD40NDZW-11A8JS0
WD40NDZW-11A8JS1
WD40NMZW-59A8NS1
WD40NMZW-59BCBS1
WD50NDZW-11A8JS1
WD50NMZW-59BCBS0
WD50NMZW-11BCBS0
WD50NMZW-59A8NS1
WD50NDZW-11BCSS0
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Dolphin team has released new DFL-WD hdd repair software and new DFL-ST HDD repair software and users can download these new software from Dolphin user-only forum. With the new DFL-WD hdd repair software, users can further enhance the WD SMR HDD data recovery success rate.
With the new software, users can unlock more WD SMR HDDs by the original PCB without using special firmware unlock PCB, 800041, 800066, 800077, 800069, 810011, 810035, etc.
With the new software, users can fix more WD SMR hdd format cases, more all-sector-0000 cases, inaccessible data area cases, etc.
Users can download the latest WD hdd repair software from the forum.
More WD SMR HDD repair and recovery cases and tips below:
WD SMR HDD WD20EZAZ 810011 DATA RECOVERY CASE BY DFL USER IN SRI LANKA;
WD SMR 800077 CARMEL HDD REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY STEPS
WD SMR 800065 800067 810003 CHARGER HDD REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY SOLUTIONS
WD 800069 800066 SMR PALMER HDD REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY SOLUTIONS
WD SMR SPYGLASS SPYGLASS2 800041 HDD REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY STEPS
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This data recovery case study is shared by one of our experienced, smart, friendly and kind users from Sri Lanka, his name is Dananjaya who offers very professional data recovery services in Sri Lanka.
HDD ID Information:
Patient drive: WD20EZAZ
PCB: 2060-810011
Reported symptoms
According to the drive owner, when he was copying wedding pictures to HDD, windows OS popup error massage called “not enough space”
HDD Repair and Recovery steps:
1.Once our user received the HDD, he checked. He found that when power on HDD, it spin up, but then two times’ clicking and power down. Like platter damage;
2.He tried to unlock, but same scenario. No modules showed, only power up, two clicks, power down;
3.So he guess it can be module damaged. But couldn’t power up. He used only pcb and disable module 02, module 411 and kernel mode. But same clicking;
4.He found a donor PCB with same microcode HDD. Then used patient PCB to donor for test, donor drive can be detected as normal;
5.He put donor to PAITENT HDD. Luckily the patient drive can be detected. But after 10 seconds, gave one click and went to busy status. Not responding;
6.He managed to power on and off till enter the inside of FW program;
7.He disabled module 02. After doing that HDD shows module and no clicking. But once enabling module 02, start clicking again. He had to disable again to get all modules;
8.He edited module 02 manually and write it SA. Fortunately no clicking, smoothly worked with HEX 00;
9.DFL repaired the corrupted module 190, he then wrote it to SA and load to RAM. “missing node function ” and “repair nodes function” which built in version 2.31 were used for this case;
10. Two partitions are displayed properly, the image speed is quite good, up to 150M per second.
HDD Repair and Data Recovery Equipment used in this data recovery case study:
DFL WD HDD Repair Equipment
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment
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How to recover lost data from WD SMR 800077 Carmel patient hard drives?
2060-800077-003 HDD Family: CARMEL
WD CARMEL HDD Failure Types:
SED lock and MCU lock;
Weak heads
Slow issue by firmware corruption;
All sectors 0;
Inaccessible data area;
Common Functions to be used to repair and recover lost data from WD SMR Carmel HDDs
HDD ROM chip pin reader to read/write ROM content;
MCU unlock ROM generation;
Disable 411;
Sector response time modification;
T2Data backup;
SMRzone backup;
190 backup, repair(Scan missing nodes, repair wrong nodes, delete overlapped nodes, etc ), write, ram loading(T2 auto loading);
Head map set up;
etc
WD CARMEL HDD Models:
WD60EDAZ-11BMZB0 2060-800077-003 REV P1
WD60EMAZ-51TKPB0 2060-800077-003 REV P1
WD60EZAZ-00ZGHB0 2060-800077-003 REV P2
WD60EFAX-68SHWN0 2060-800077-003 REV P1
WD20EZAZ-00GGJB0 2060-800077-003 REV P1
To repair and recover lost data from WD SMR Carmel hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:
HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment
WD SMR Carmel HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK
Helpful links:
WD 2060-800077 WD20EZAZ HDD Firmware Unlock PCB
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How to recover lost data from WD SMR 800065 800067 810003 Charger patient hard drives?
The WD SMR hard drives with PCB numbers 2060-800065, 2060-800067 and 2060-810003 belong to WD Charger family. Slow firmware issue, all sectors zero issue, HDD ID undetected issue, etc are the common hdd failures of the Charger family HDDs, the Charger family HDDs have both SED lock and MCU lock and the common models for these Charger families are as below:
2060-800067-001：
WD20SMZW-11JW8S0
WD20SMZW-11JW8S1
WD20SMZW-11YFCS0
WD20SMZW-34JW8S0
WD20SMZW-34JW8S1
WD20SMZW-59JW8S1
WD20SMZW-59YFCS0
WD20SMZW-59YFCS1
WD20SMRW-59YNDS0
WD20SDZW-11Z3CS0
WD20SDRW-11VUUS0
WD20SDRW-34VUUS0
WD15SMZW-11YFCS0
WD15SMRW-11YNDS0
2060-800065-002：
WD20SPZX-08UA7T0
WD20SPZX-11CRAT0
WD20SPZX-22CRAT0
WD20SPZX-21UA7T0
WD20SPZX-75UA7T1
2060-810003-001：
WD20SDZM-59TM5S1
WD20SMZM-59H3FS1
To repair and recover lost data from WD SMR Charger hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:
HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment
WD Charger 800065 800067 810003 HDD Head Replacement Tool
WD SMR Charger HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK
Helpful links:
2060-800067 Data Unlock SATA Connector
WD 2060-800065 HDD Firmware Unlock SATA PCB for WD USB PCB 2060-800067 and 810003
2060-810003 Data Unlock SATA Connector
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How to fix undetected WD SMR palmer hard drives? How to repair WD SMR palmer hdds with all sectors 0? How to get lost data from WD palmer 800066 800069 hard drives with slow firmware issue? How to unlock WD 2060-800066 and 2060-800069 SMR hard drive firmware area without special firmware unlock PCBs(MCU unlock easily on original PCB)?
The following are common models of WD SMR Palmer HDD models:
WD10SPZX-24Z10T1 2060-800066-006 P1
WD10SPZX-22Z10T0 2060-800066-004
WD10SPZX-24Z10T0 2060-800066-004
WD10SPZX-60Z10T0 2060-800066-006
WD10SMZW-11Y0TS0 2060-800069-001
WD10SMZW-59Y0TS0 2060-800069-001 REV P1
HTS541010BE610 2060-800066-004 Rev P1
WD5000LMZW-11Y0TS0 2060-800069-001
WD10SMZW-34Y0TS0 800069-001
WD10SDZW-11UMGS0 2060-800069-001
WD10SDZW-59UMGS0 2060-800069-001
WD10SDRW-11A0XS0 2060-800069-001
WD10SDRW-11A0XS1 2060-800069-003
WD10SDRW-34A0XS0 2060-800069-003 REV P1
WD10SMZM-59WKCS0 2060-800086-000 Type C
To repair and recover lost data from WD SMR palmer hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:
HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment
WD SMR Palmer HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK
Helpful links:
2060-800069 Data Unlock SATA Connector
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Dolphin Data Lab offers the best data recovery solutions to WD SMR HDDs of Spyglass and Spyglass2.
WD SMR HDDs have usually SED Lock, MCU lock issue, slow firmware issue, dynamic translator corruption issue(190 damage), etc. For old spyglass WD hdds, it is very easy to access to the firmware area, repair the damaged firmware modules and then recover the lost data.
To repair and recover lost data from WD Spyglass and Spyglass2 hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:
HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment
WD Spyglass and Spyglass2 HDD Models:
WD30NMVW-11C3NS4
WD30NMZW-11GX6S1
WD30NMRW-11YL9S4
WD40NMZW-11gx6s1
WD40ndzw-11mr8s1
WD40nmzw-59gx6s1
WD50NDZW-11MR8S1
WD Spyglass and Spyglass2 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK
Helpful links:
2060-800041 Data Unlock SATA Connector
Compatible SATA PCB for 2060-800041 and 2060-810012
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It’s now possible to unlock the firmware area for WD 2060-810035 SMR HDDs without special firmware unlock PCB if users have DFL-WD firmware repair tool.
DFL users can download the latest DFL all-in-one software V2.31 in the user-only forum to use the latest firmware unlock solution.
Firmware unlock steps:
Step 1: Remove original PCB;
Step 2: Read original ROM by HDD ROM Chip Pin reader, no need to solder rom chip off;
Step 3: Enter DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool, go to ROM Operations>Unlock ROM;
Step 4: Select original rom and the DFL WD program will automatically generate one unlock ROM;
Step 5: Write Unlock ROM by HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader, no need to solder rom chip off;
Step 6: Install original PCB to original HDD, users can connect original HDD to DFL-URE or DFL-UREP to backup module 190, repair 190 and then use auto loading tech. to image hdd or extract lost data directly.
In some WD SMR HDD cases, due to bad sectors, weak heads or surface issue, users may need to convert the USB interface to SATA to run disk image, users can use the WD SMR HDD data unlock SATA connectors.
Please note: Most WD SMR HDDs are supported to use the firmware unlock solution for data recovery purpose but there’re still few special ROM structures which are not yet supported.
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More and more WD SMR HDD data recovery cases are coming to data recovery labs worldwide. DFL-URE data recovery express and HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader Help With Easier WD SMR HDD Firmware Unlock and data recovery.
DFL-URE or DFL-UREP contains the following modules:
DFL-WD hdd repair
DFL-Samsung hdd repair
DFL-DDP data recovery
How to Unlock WD SMR HDD Firmware Area without Firmware Unlock PCB
Step 1: Remove original PCB;
Step 2: Read original ROM by HDD ROM Chip Pin reader, no need to solder rom chip off;
Step 3: Enter DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool, go to ROM Operations>Unlock ROM;
Step 4: Select original rom and the DFL WD program will automatically generate one unlock ROM;
Step 5: Write Unlock ROM by HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader, no need to solder rom chip off;
Step 6: Install original PCB to original HDD, users can connect original HDD to DFL-URE or DFL-UREP to backup module 190, repair 190 and then use auto loading tech. to image hdd or extract lost data directly.
Video Demo on How to Unlock WD SMR HDD Without Firmware Unlock PCB:
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