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Dolphin Data Recovery Hardware Tools Recover New Western Digital Hard Drives

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Dolphin Data Lab has released the latest data recovery software V2.3 and this new software will help all DFL users repair firmware corruption and recover lost data from new Western Digital hard drives, for example the latest SMR hard drives with SED and MCU lock.

As for Western Digital hard drives, we have experienced the PCB series of 12XX, 14XX, 15XX, 16XX, 17XX, 18XX, 19xx, 800XX, 81XXX, etc.  All users need to check the PCB number of the WD drives and then users can easily judge if the WD drives are supported or not.

For old WD hard drives, the firmware area is not locked, users can easily access and backup the firmware modules, if not, users can load loaders to access the firmware; for some common hard drives, users can disable 02 or disable 411 to access the firmware area; but for new WD SMR hard drives, users need to use firmware unlock PCB or create unlock rom to unlock firmware area.

For new WD SMR hard drives, Dolphin data recovery tools have many unique and powerful hdd repair and data recovery solutions: to fix the SMR HDD slow firmware issue; to fix SMR HDD all sectors 0000 firmware issue; to fix SMR HDD inaccessible data area issue.

For WD hard drives, users have the following options of firmware repair and data recovery:

1, Firmware module read and write;
2, Edit firmware modules;
3, Re-generate firmware modules;
4, Re-generate ROM;
5, Fix Slow issue;
6, Edit head map in RAM;
7, Test and clear firmware module;
8, Convert LBA to CHS;
9, Extract firmware modules from tracks;
10, Backup firmware region and extract firmware modules from region;
11,  Change module size to read;
12, Change module location;
13, Bypass firmware read;
14, Disable module 02/411 to access firmware area;
15, Test heads quality;
16, etc;

More and more new WD hard drive data recovery cases are being fixed by Dolphin data recovery tools.

 

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How to Unlock WD SMR HDDs Firmware Area without Firmware Unlock PCB

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It is now possible for DFL users to unlock the WD SMR HDDs firmware area on the original PCB without special firmware unlock PCBs.

The new solution for WD SMR HDD firmware unlock is available within DFL-WD hdd repair tool and to use this solution, users need to have DFL HDD ROM chip pin reader(Many users have already had this one.) and the steps are as below:

1, Remove the original PCB from data drive;
2, Read the original ROM from original PCB by the HDD rom chip pin reader set without soldering rom chip off;
3, Generate firmware unlock ROM;
4, Write unlock rom to original PCB by the HDD rom chip pin reader set without soldering rom chip off;
5, Install the original PCB to data drive and users can see the firmware area is already unlocked successfully;
6, Users can use DFL-WD hdd repair tool to backup important firmware modules, specially the module 190, smrzone, T2data, etc;
7, Users can image the HDD or extract lost data directly if users have DFL-URE or DFL-UREP by using DFL latest T2 auto loading tech;
8, If the original PCB is physically damagaed but the Main chip and ROM chip are still good, users can use the special firmware unlock PCB and then move the original main chip to the firmware unlock SATA PCB and write original ROM to the firmware unlock PCB for disk imaging or file extraction;
9, In some cases, users need to repair the damaged firmware module 190 or repair the SMR HDD slow issue to continue for data recovery.

The WD SMR HDD firmware repair and data recovery solution is more and more complete and successful and DFL users will be able to fix more and more new data recovery cases.

Please note: the new solution supports 800066, 67, 69, 77, 11, etc but doesn’t support 810033 and 810035 which have quite different rom structure and algorithms. For WD 810033 and 810035, users still need to get the special firmware unlock PCBs for firmware unlock.

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WD SMR Palmer Charger HDD All Sectors Zero Recovered Easily by DFL-URE or UREP

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This is one patient WD SMR Charger HDD from one DFL user in China who has other data recovery tools but failed to get the lost data back due to the 190 loading issue.

HDD ID:

WD20SDRW-11VUUS0
Family: Charger
4 Heads
Microcode: 6008J
SPT: 1860

This DFL user contacted Dolphin team and bought DFL PCIe data recovery express recharge version and DFL-URE Plus and applied for remote support.

By DFL PCIe data recovery express, the user had safely backup the rom and firmware modules and tested the firmware modules and found the modules 189 and 190 are corrupted with checksum errors. At this time, the engineer had to backup the 190 by ATA but still some sectors failed to be read in module 190. The engineer repaired the module 190 by DFL-WD 190 repair solution and got new 190 and at the same time, the T2 data was extracted as one important part of 190.

By DFL-URE Plus, the engineer could connect the Charger USB HDD directly, before loading T2Data, all sectors were found as 0, next the engineer selected the menu ‘Edit Head Map in RAM and Load T2’ and the engineer loaded the T2 data automatically.

After T2 auto loading after power reset, the engineer went to check data area again and the hex data becomes normal.

Next the engineer went to file extraction and the lost partition, folders and files were perfectly listed and finally all lost data was recovered.

Watch the video here on How to use DFL URE UREP to Recover Lost Data Easily from WD SMR HDDs Suffering All Sectors Zero:

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How to Fix Western Digital SMR HDD Slow Issue

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Slow problem is very common firmware failure in western Digital hard drives, it is also the same situation for WD SMR hard drives. But please note: Slow issue can also be caused by physical weak head or weak platter surface. It’s not possible before to fix the SMR HDD slow issue by the traditional ‘slow fix’ solution.

Within the latest DFL all in one data recovery tool V2.3, users can easily fix the slow issue without affecting the data and the solution has helped many DFL users to get lost data back from the WD SMR HDDs.

The WD SMR HDD slow fix solution is available within DFL-DDP data recovery software.

All users need to do is to activate TLER, click to modify module 01 and 02(helps to reduce the time of loading unnecessary firmware modules) and input the read and write response time.

Besides, users can try to lock UA writing, repair 190, disable reallocation, etc to get the WD smr drives working faster. Pls. note firmware testing is very important and users may need to repair some other modules too.

But if the slow issue is caused by weak heads or downgraded surfaces, users need to backup the SMRzone and module 190/T2 for running selective head image.

The following are some relevant videos and tips about how to fix the WD smr hdd slow responding issue:

WD15SMRW 11YNDS0 WD SMR HDD Slow Data Recovery Steps

How to Backup WD SMR HDD Module 190 Successfully
Special Warning on WD SMR HDD Data Recovery Cases

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WD SMR HDD Firmware Module 190 Manager for Your Best Recovery Success Rate

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Western Digital SMR HDD firmware repair and data recovery cases are more and more common for data recovery engineers worldwide.

Among all cases, the most common cases are the following two types:

1, Firmware module 190 failure;
2, Physical head damage.

As for module 190 failure, it has the following situations:

Module 190 is good but couldn’t be loaded to ram properly;
Module 190 is corruped due to bad sectors within the module LBA range or overlap nodes or vacant nodes or error nodes generated;

As for Physical head damage, users need to swap heads to continue and can try head and platter swap tools here.

To ensure users can get the best WD SMR hdd data recovery success rate, Dolphin team have added the unique WD SMR HDD Firmware module 190 manager with the following detailed functions:

Import Module 190 and Manage
Extract the T2 Data(190 core nodes)
Original Nodes List
Scanned Nodes List
List Nodes by Original Order
List Nodes by Node Tree
List Nodes by Start LBA
SIT Repair
Search Correct Blocks Auto
Search and Replace
Search Error Nodes
Search Overlap Nodes
TIS Check
Vacant Nodes Count
Overlap Nodes Count
Tree Root Node Number Check
Test Current Nodes
Test All Nodes
Test Tree
Test Nodes by SMRZONE
Scan Lost Nodes
Repair Selected Nodes
Delete Selected Nodes
Delete Error Nodes
Delete Nodes with Same Start LBA
Delete Nodes with Same END LBA
Repair Vacant Nodes with Scanned Nodes
Caculate Valid Data from Selected Nodes
Zerofill Bad Sectors within The Module
Load 190/T2 auto for data recovery

Users can get above solutions within DFL-DDP data recovery tool.

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Western Digital SMR HDDs SED V2 Data Recovery Solutions

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For WD SMR HDDs, they usually have firmware lock and SED V2 lock issue. To unlock the firmware area, users can use firmware unlock PCB. To fix the SED V2 issue, users can use the following methods:

1, Solder wires on original USB PCB;
2, Use HDD USB-SATA wiring PCB;
3, Use Data Unlock SATA Connectors;

Now we have another method: When the original PCB is physically damaged, users can only transfer the main controller IC to firmware unlock PCB to fix SED v2 issue.

The following two Main Controller IC Reballing Stencils are available now to make the MCU transfer job easier and more successful:

WD 800041 800022 88i1047-NDB2 Main Controller IC Reballing Stencil
WD HDD PCB 88i1053-NXZ2 Main Controller IC Reballing Stencil

WD HDD PCBs with the same 88i1053-NXZ2 Main Controller IC:
800066
800067
800069
810030
810033
810035
810067

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WD 2060-810011 1C Version VS 3C Version HDD Firmware Unlock PCB

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WD 2060-810011 is one very common western digital SMR hard drive PCB number and drives with this number have MCU lock and SED lock.

One thing is important for WD 2060-810011:
This PCB number has two types:

WD 2060-810011 HDD Firmware Unlock PCB-3C Version
WD 2060-810011 HDD Firmware Unlock PCB-1C Version

The 3C version is more common in the market but the 3C and 1C version are not compatible with each other.

Before users buy this WD 2060-810011 unlock PCB, users need to check chip number on the PCB in the picture above.

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WD SMR HDD Sector 000000 190 Failure Data Recovery Solution

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Dolphin team have created new WD smr hdd firmware repair functions to repair and recover lost data from these drives at a higher success rate.

Sector 000000 is one very common problem in the Western Digital SMR hard drive data recovery cases due to the module 190 loading failure to RAM or module 190 corruption.

Within the new DFL hdd repair and data recovery software, users can find very good functions: module 190 repair and module 190 auto loading(T2 auto loading) to RAM and this auto T2 loading is unique and helps to fix many cases other tools cannot fix.

Dolphin engineers will teach users how to backup the module 190 perfectly and this is the most important step to fix WD SMR cases. Next users can use the T2 auto loading tech. to fix cases such as the sector 000000 firmware issue. If T2 cannot be loaded automatically, after power reset, the HDD can be sector 000000 again.

Watch the WD SMR HDD Sector 000000 190 Failure Data Recovery video case study here:  https://youtu.be/VLNc6qXWrHs

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WD SMR HDD 2060-800077 810011 Unlock PCB Correct ROM Chip Location

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There’re multiple similar chips on these WD SMR HDDs with PCB number 2060-800077 and 810011. Users are usually confused to find out the correct ROM chip.

The following are the correct ROM chip location:

WD 2060-800077 HDD Firmware Unlock PCB, click here
WD 2060-810011 HDD Firmware Unlock PCB, click here

When users are trying to use above firmware unlock PCBs, users need to use HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader to read the original rom and write the original rom to the unlock PCB and then install the unlock PCB to original HDD so that the original HDD firmware area can be accessed. If users don’t have HDD ROM chip pin reader, users need to solder the original rom chip off and solder it on to the unlock PCB rom chip location.

Please note: firmware unlock pcbs help only to access the firmware area and don’t bypass the SED V2 data encryption. To fix the SED V2 data encryption issue, users need to use HDD USB-SATA Wiring PCB Pro. or Data Unlock SATA Connectors.

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How to Set Up Head Map for Western Digital SMR 8X00XX Hard Drives

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Physical data recovery cases are very common for Western Digital SMR 8X00XX hard drives. To recover the lost data safely, it is necessary to set up the head map within the data area and then image the patient HDD by selective heads, image the good heads first and then weak heads. Read more

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