Dolphin data recovery tools are widely used in Africa, such as Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Algeria, Mauritius, Ghana, etc.

Many African engineers come to China for business and select to visit Dolphin Data Lab in Chengdu and see the live demo in person in Dolphin Data Lab office. Dolphin team set up very good friendship and business relationship with these engineers.

African data recovery engineers are very smart and working hard to learn how to use Dolphin data recovery tools and how to fix different hdd, ssd and flash drive data recovery cases.

Dolphin team welcome all data recovery engineers worldwide to visit our office and attend the live demo of Dolphin data recovery tools or attend Dolphin advanced data recovery training courses.

Any question is welcome to sales[@]dolphindatalab.com.

WD PCB 810032 810052 Firmware Unlock PCB is available for data recovery engineers worldwide. Users just need to backup the original ROM and write to the firmware unlock PCB or users can transfer the original rom chip to firmware unlock pcb and then users can easily access the firmware area and repair the firmware corruption.

In many WD SMR HDD data recovery cases, the firmware modules are damaged, for example, the module 02 damage, module 190 damage, rom module damage, etc, to recover the lost data from these kinds of patient drives, users need to access the firmware area, backup original firmware modules, test firmware modules and then repair corrupted firmware modules and finally get the patient drives properly detected and image the patient drives to get the lost data back.

HDDs using PCB 2060-810032:

WD67PURX-85AJTY0
WD62PURZ
WD62EJRX
WD Black WD8002FZWX
WD80EMZZ
WD80EFZZ
WD8002FZWX

Order 810032-1c firmware unlock PCB here
Order 810032-3c firmware unlock PCB here

HDDs using PCB 2060-810052:

WD80EDAZ-11CEWB0
WD80EAAZ-00BXBB0
WD80EFPX-68C4ZN0
WD8002FZBX-00C9HA0

Order 810052-3c firmware unlock PCB here
Order 810052-5c firmware unlock PCB here

Please note: This firmware unlock PCB doesn’t help on the WD SMR HDD SED V2 data encryption issue, it helps only to access firmware area. To fix the SED V2 data encryption issue, users need to transfer the main chip from the data drive to the firmware unlock PCB or users need to use the original PCB after firmware repair with the firmware unlock PCB.

HDD Firmware Repair Tools and Data Recovery Tools for WD 810032 810052 Patient HDDs:

DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment

WD80EDAZ WD80EAAZ HDD Head Replacement Tool is available worldwide at very friendly price and this head replacement tool is designed for the hard drives below:

The WD80EDAZ WD80EAAZ HDD Head Replacement Tool is available in Western Digital HDD Head Comb Suite or G2 HDD Head Comb Suite.Advanced

Dolphin DVR V3.98 new software upgrade is available for Dolphin users worldwide. All users can download it from Dolphin user-only forum or from the download center.

Dolphin DVR V3.98 Dongle Version Online
Dolphin DVR V3.98 Dongle Version Offline
Dolphin DVR V3.98 Software only Version 

Users can download the software according to your own situation.

New features:

01: Hikvision BTREE Lost video recovery enhancement with higher success rate;
02: TP-LINK(4.x) video data recovery/fragmented video files recovery and restructuring is added;
03: DVR brand auto detection is further improved, can detect many false labeled or unknown dvr brands;
04: Software codes optimization to make sure the software is working faster and more stably.

Please note: Dongle version can be used on any computer with the hardware dongle but software-only version is bound to one specific computer by user.

This is one successful Seagate ST5000DM000-1FK178 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery case study from one user in Mexico.

Patient HDD symptoms:

01: Very unstable and keep reporting LBA read error;
02: Full disk bad sectors;

Patient HDD ID:

Model number-ST5000DM000-1FK178
FW: CC49

HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

01: Backup patient HDD rom;
02: Generate unlock rom;
03: Write unlock rom, power off and on, send unlock key;
04: Backup important SYS35(NGlist);
05: Clear glist, view NGlist entries;
06: Regenerate translator;
07: Fix media cache and vacant actitive;
08: Power off and on and enter DFL-DDP data recovery software;
09: All lost partitions and folders are listed for immediate data recovery.

HDD Repair Tools and Data Recovery Tools Used:

DFL-Seagate hdd repair tool;
DFL-DDP data recovery tool

More powerful data recovery tools here.

Dear Friends,

Dolphin team are going to be on the Labor Day Holiday during May 1 to May 5 2026 and will re-open for business on next Wednesday May 6, 2026.

Like as usual, we will check and answer emails during this 5 days’ holiday. Users worldwide can place orders of data recovery tools without any issue online. But all the product delivery will be postponed to May 6 since DHL express carrier will be closed during this period too.

Should you have any urgent issue and need immediate help, pls contact with your Customer Service Manager via email. We thank you all for your continuous support with us.

Any question is welcome to sales[@]dolphindatalab.com.