Head and Platter Swap Tutorials
- Head and Platter Swap Section 1: General Principles & Facts
- Head and Platter Swap Section 2: Is Clean Room A Must For Physical Data Recovery
- Head and Platter Swap Section 3: How To Fix Dead Hard Drives
- Head and Platter Swap Section 4: Key Physical Components
- Head and Platter Swap Section 5: What Head And Platter Swap Tools Engineers Are Using
- Head and Platter Swap Section 6: One Interesting SCSI Hard Drive Inside
Physical head and platter swap is one of the most common data recovery cases and so far in the data recovery field, this kind of case is not for all data recovery engineers due to its complexity and requirement.
The key to get high success rate of head replacement and platter swap is continuing practice and learning from others’ experience;
To work on head and platter swap cases, users need firstly one clean room environment;
When users are swapping heads, users need to understand the hard drives with bad heads requiring data recovery from are usually called source drives or patient drives, the hard drives with matching good heads are usually called donor hard drives; Read more
This is right now a golden opportunity to those data recovery engineers who have summer holidays and it’s a good time to relax your brain, release your body and take care of your family and life and after the summer holidays engineers can start again their data recovery business with fresh ideas and energy.
It’s a pity Dolphin Data Lab doesn’t have the summer holidays and keep working all the standard working days and hours and we keep researching on some new data recovery tools and solutions and when engineers come back from the summer holidays, engineers can enjoy working with these new stuff. Read more
Dolphin Data Lab has recently released not only the latest version of DFL-DE data recovery tool version 1.5 and DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment version 1.1, but the latest version of user manual and instruction has been being offered.
And today we have finished the latest version-1.5 of DFL-DE user manual and tips explaining how to use the new data recovery functions.
Section I Index
1.1 DFL-DE Hardware Overview P3-4
1.2 How To Connect Hard Drives To DFL-DE P5-6
1.3 COM Port Connection Tips P7-10
1.4 How To Install DFL-DE Software P10-21 Read more
Patient HDD ID:
Model: WD3200AAJS-00L7A0; Serial Number: WCAV2K523946; PCB 1590 Series
When the hdd was received and it was clicking, by listening to the clicking hard drives, the engineer can tell it’s one head damaged hdd. For users without enough experience, users can use our force loading technology to judge whether it’s firmware clicking or head-related clicking.
Users can always compare the good drives’ working sounds and patient drives’ working sounds, when you listen to them more, it’s easy to tell them from each other. Read more
We have recently setup the Australia sales and support center for all Dolphin Data Lab data recovery tools including the latest DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment, DFL-DE data recovery tool, DFL-WDII hdd repair tool, head and platter swap tools, microscopes, high-speed flash programmer, COM cable plus, etc.
This is one close cooperation with our Partner-Dolphin Data Recovery Pty Ltd and this support and sales center will offer more professional and localized and fast support to clients from Australia.
If users want to check live demo of Dolphin Data Lab data recovery tools and the latest data recovery technologies in Sydney Australia, users can contact Dolphin Data Recovery Center Australia or contact our head office Dolphin Data Lab in Chengdu. Read more
For a higher success rate of hdd repair and data recovery, cheers!
1, Smart Disk Image Technology
The program offers users two modes to image the patient hard drive: UDMA Mode and PIO mode and the program is able to detected the health status of each sector based on its response time of being read and written and then the program automatically select the right data transfer mode UDMA or PIO to read each sector differently. That’s to say to read good sectors in UDMA mode and to read Bad sectors in PIO mode and the whole process is automatically done by the program itself.
2, Double Channels’ Images
Advanced imaging features handling disk imaging tasks from two patient disks at the same time, double the disk imaging efficiency from faulty hard drives; Read more
