This is one very interesting Seagate ST4000LM024 firmware repair and data recovery case study because the patient hard drive has multiple firmware failures and finally the lost data was perfectly recovered by DFL SRP All-in-one data recovery equipment.

Patient HDD iD:
Model Number: ST4000LM024-2AN17V
SN: WCK4KDYA

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:
Busy, Undetected, Nohost, Wrong Data Area

COM Terminal Error Messages:

‘Boot 0x80M
MD45L1
0001
SpinUp
TCC:0015

Trans
Rst 0x80M
MD45L1
0001
[RSO is disabled]

(P) SATA Reset

No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 0002A1A1
ServoDiscSlip Time = 00000039’

Seagate HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

1, Select correct family ID: M11(A1) and Enter DFL Seagate HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Software(no need to power on);
2, Backup ROM;
3, Generate unlock ROM;
4, Write unlock ROM;
5, Power off and on and send unlock Key;
6, Backup NGlist and other important SYS files;
7, Clear G-list;
8, Regenerate translator;
9, Initialize by ID(COM);
10,Power off and on and send unlock key;
11,Fix the wrong data/data offset issue;
12,Enter DFL-DDP data recovery software and all lost data was available for immediate data recovery.

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Seagate hard drive weak heads data recovery is very common data recovery case and if users don’t have DFL Seagate HDD firmware repair tool and want to recover the lost data from patient hard drives with weak heads, users need to set up head map, image patient HDD by heads, image good heads first and then image weak heads, or users need to swap heads for full data recovery. Read more

This is one physical hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study.

Patient HDD ID:
ST500LT012-1DG142
Family name: Yarra_5400
Family ID: 75

Patient HDD Symptoms:
Capacity 0

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

1, Backup ROM;
2, Backup SYS files but copy 0 failed, copy 1 ok;
3, Translator view ok, V4 clearing ok but when trying to regenerate translator, the regeneration cannot be completed and showing R/W error and file error.
4, Head swap by Level 2 head replacement tool;
5, Enter DFL-DDP data recovery software, users set up one disk image project, set up head map and start image, finally all data was imaged successfully.

Video case study: Seagate ST500LT012 Capacity 0 Head 0 Damaged Data Recovery Steps

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This is one successful Seagate HDD data recovery case study from one DFL user in India.

Patient HDD failure symptoms:

Capacity 0/wrongly detected;
Partial sector access;
Wrong data area/undetected data

Patient HDD iD:

Model number: ST2000LM009-1R9174
Firmware version: SED1
Capacity: 3907029168 (2T)
SN: WDZYNVJ1

Seagate HDD Firmware and Data Recovery Steps:

01, Enter DFL Seagate HDD firmware repair software;
02, Backup ROM;
03, Generate unlock ROM;
04, Write unlock ROM;
05, Power off and on and send unlock key;
06, Backup nglist, translator, primary defect lists and SYS348, SYS93;
07, Fix media cache by Initialize by ID;
08, Clear glist and regenerate translator;
09, Fix partial sector access issue;
10, Fix wrong data issue.

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