This is one real case study on how to recover lost data from Western Digital USB3.0 hard drives whose PCB number belongs to 1961 series.
HDD ID: 2.5” USB3.0 Hard Drive
Family-Null; Model: WDC WD20NMVW-11AV3S2; Capacity: 2TB
PCB: 1961
The engineer changed the 1961 USB PCB to 1933 SATA PCB and moved the ROM chip-U12 to the SATA PCB as well. Read more
Dolphin Data Lab has completed the DFL-FRP for Hitachi hard drive firmware repair and password removal tool and the first version 1.0 will be released very soon.
For existing users with DFL-FRP hardware, whether it’s DFL-FRP for Seagate, DFL-FRP for WD or DFL-FRP for Seagate and WD, users can easily buy the Hitachi firmware repair program and have it supported in the same hardware. Read more
Dolphin Data Lab is releasing new version of DFL-URE USB 3.0 data recovery tool-DFL-URE V1.2. In the previous versions, we have studied all functions carefully and removed some unnecessary functions and added many new features in this current new version.
Dolphin Data Lab has optimized the URE device registration and driver installation process and users can now install the DFL-URE much more easily. Users just need to go to the DFL-URE installation folder and find the driver folder for 32bit or 64bit Read more
Dolphin Data Lab is spending the Middle-Autumn festival holiday here and the holiday last three days including September 6, 7 and 8, 2014.
Chinese Moon Festival is traditionally celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunisolar month and the whole China is celebrating this festival including all including companies, etc. Dolphin Data Lab will come back to work on Next Tuesday (September 9). Read more
This is one USB drive(USB1737) data recovery case study shared by one of our Chinese users and it explains how to use DFL-FRP firmware repair tool and DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment to get the lost data back from this patient USB hard drive with simple steps, this patient USB drive was not recognized in windows.
The user changed the USB PCB to SATA PCB and swapped the ROM but the hdd ID was not recognized, the good news is that the hdd is ready within the DFL-FRP for WD. Read more
HDD ID: WDC WD2500AAKX-001CA0; Serial Number: WD-WMAYU08856953; Family: Tahoe_LT; Microcode: 00030010
The following hdd has selftest run but failed. To check the selftest history and find out what happened, users can go to view the IBI logs.
We can find one of the import selftest process failed-B9-format with plist, the time shows 00. This step is very important for selftest because it reassigns the data area defects to the p-list. If this step fails, there will be many bad sectors found during the scanning. Read more
