Dolphin Data Lab has released one new data recovery hardware tool-DFL SATA to SAS Adapter and this adapter is used to connect SAS hard drives and convert SAS interfaces to SATA interfaces.

Promotion: Free shipping worldwide by DHL express before May 31, 2023!

By this SAS adapter, users can connect SAS hard drives to the popular ATA data recovery equipment such as DFL SRP USB3.0 all-in-one data recovery equipment or DFL PCIe data recovery equipment or other similar data recovery devices with SATA ports. Users can make best use of the disk image or file extraction settings:

Write blocking;
Set LBA range to image;
Forward read or backward read;
Set read block size;
high-speed/low speed/intelligent read;
Soft reset/hard reset/power reset;
Settings for sector read timeout values, sectors to skip, etc.

Please note: This adapter is hardware only, doesn’t contain any software, users need to use this adapter with SATA data recovery equipment.

If users wish to image the SAS drives with non-standard sector sizes of 518, 520, 522, 528, etc to target drives or to a file with standard sector size of 512 bytes, users need to use Dolphin Data Recovery Assistant Pro.

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Dolphin Data Lab has again upgraded the most powerful CCTV DVR data recovery software-Dolphin DVR and the latest software version is V3.71.

Latest Dolphin DVR Software:Version V3.7.1
Date:2023-04-14

What’s new in this latest DVR data recovery software?

01. Canon EOS 200D camera video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
02. Canon POWERSHOT SX40 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
03. Canon IXUS 185 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
04. Nikon COOLPIX S6000 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
05. Nikon D5100 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
06. Nikon D3200 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
07. FUJIFILM X-S10 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
08. Casio EX S880 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
09. KONICA MINOLTA X1 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
10. DDPAI X2SPRO video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
11. Tesla video recorder video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
12. Kodak C643 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
13. Sony FDR ASP55 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
14. Further enhance DVR video analysis and restructuring capabilities.

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This Seagate ST2000LM007-1R8174 faulty hard drive was capacity 0 detected and after initial firmware repair there’re many bad sectors by logical scan.

Patient HDD ID:

Model : ST2000LM007-1R8174
Serial : WDZKYE4W
Firmware : EB01
Capacity : 3907029168 (1863.02GB)
Sector size : 4096
Heads number : 4

FW info : Obtained
FW version : R1AEA069E.SDM4.AA4901.EB01
FW package P/N : 100849195
FW ID : 00305567
FW creation date : 2019/01/22
FW creation time : 20:23:31
CFW version : R1AEA069E.SDM4.AA4901.01618036.0
SFW1 version : 0305567.EB01

Modules list : Obtained
Modules number : 57

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:

Undetected/wrongly detected/Many bad sectors

Required HDD repair tools and Data Recovery Tools to recover lost data:

DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool
DFL DDP Data Recovery Equipment

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

1, Backup ROM;
2, Generate unlock ROM and write unlock ROM;
3, Power off and on and send unlock key;
4, Backup important sys files;
5, Clear g-list, clear smart;
6, Initialize ID (ATA), clear media cache, disable vacant active, etc.

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This is one successful Western Digital hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study for one Dolphin user in Peru.

Patient HDD ID:

WDC WD5000LPVX-80V0TT0
WD-WXQ1E34CLXH4
465 GB(976773168)
SPT: 1437
Family: HUBBLELT

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:

Inaccessible data area, full disk bad sectors

Required HDD repair tools and data recovery tools to fix the faulty hard drive:

DFL-WD hdd repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

Patient HDD repair and data recovery steps:

1, Backup ROM and key firmware modules;
2, Slow fix;
3, Test firmware modules and found the module 32 was corrupted and couldn’t be read;
4, Wrote donor module 32;
5, Right click on module 32 and clear the module;
6, Restart firmware;
7, Open DFL-DDP data recovery equipment and the lost partition and folders and files were all recovered.

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This is one successful western digital undetected hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study from one DFL user in India.

Patient HDD ID:

Model number: WDC WD20NPVZ-00WFZT0
Serial Number: WD-WXN1A776ZHTN
Capacity: 1863GB
Head number: 8
SPT: 1480
Family: SHREKLT

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:

Undetected/data inaccessbile

Hard Drive Firmware Repair Tools and Data Recovery Hardware Tools Required:

DFL Western Digital HDD Repair Tool
DFL DDP Data Recovery Equipment

Hard Drive Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

Backup ROM;
Disable 411 and restart firmware;
Refresh hdd ID;
Backup hard drive firmware modules (important modules);
Slow fix-mode 1;
Enable 411 and restart firmware;
Refresh hdd ID;
Open DFL-DDP data recovery equipment and software;
Set up head map and image good heads and good sectors and then weak heads and sectors;
Finally all lost data was recovered from the faulty WD hard drive.

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This is one nice data recovery case study from one DFL user in India, the patient drive is firmware locked and the data area is not accessed.

Model : ST1000VX005-2EZ102
Serial : Z9CC69D2
Firmware : CV11
Capacity : 1953525168 (931.51GB)
Sector size : 4096
Heads number : 2

Rst 0x40M
2Sync:01 0E

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5
Retry delay

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5
Retry delay
LD: Size:00000028 HBlocks:0000 Size:002BD17F HBlocks:0032 Size:00282A49 HBlocks:0032 FlashRestore 00000000 00000028 ECBD
PP: Size:0000B400 HBlocks:0000 FlashRestore
PVTSize: 000150C8 CompSize: 000002B2 DeCompSize: 000150C8 00000000 000002B2 9E03
2Sync:00 04
DSP022B
No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 0002A1A1
2Sync:01 0C
Boot 0x40M

SpinUp
RECOV Servo Op=0100 Resp=0005
RECOV Servo Op=0055 Resp=0005[LBA=0x00006B6F]N[LBA=0x00006C28]N0[LBA=0x00006D5D]N0[LBA=0x000070A1]N0[LBA=0x000070C2]N0[LBA=0x0000737C]N0[LBA=0x000073EB]N0[LBA=0x000074EE]N0[LBA=0x00007500]N0[LBA=0x0000775C]N0

Trans
Rst 0x40M
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E

(P) SATA Reset

LD: Size:00000028 HBlocks:0000 Size:002BD17F HBlocks:0032 Size:00282A49 HBlocks:0032 DiscRestore 00000000 00000028 04ED
PP: Size:0000B400 HBlocks:0000 DiscRestore
PVTSize: 000150C8 CompSize: 000002B2 DeCompSize: 000150C8 00000000 000002B2 9E03
2Sync:00 04
DSP022C^c

ASCII Diag mode

F3 T>^l

Diagnostic Port Locked

To fix above patient drive, the user used DFL Seagate hdd repair tool to backup rom, generate unlock rom, write unlock ROM, power off and on, send unlock key, backup important SYS files, clear g-list, regenerate translator, etc.

After fixing the firmware area, the users tested the data area and found there’re some bad sectors in the front, the middle and ending parts of data areas were accessible.

The user set up head map, edited the LBA range to image the patient hdd by heads within DFL-DDP data recovery equipment and finally most data was recovered, only some system files were missing which are not important at all.

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