This is one typical western digital SMR hdd firmware repair and data recovery case study, the patient drive was busy, the firmware area and data area was not accessed, the patient HDD ID was not detected.
To recover the lost data from above busy WD SMR hdd, users need to have the following tools:
01: DFL DDP data recovery equipment;
02: DFL WD hdd firmware repair tool
HDD firmware repair and data recovery steps:
01: Get WD SMR busy hdd ready;
02: Read patient HDD ROM by HDD rom chip pin reader;
03: Generate unlock rom by DFL WD hdd repair tool and write unlock rom by pin reader (sometimes users need to use firmware unlock PCBs to unlock firmware area);
04: Backup important firmware modules;
05: Test firmware modules;
06: Repair module 190 and get repaired t2data file;
07: Load T2data to ram and set auto t2data loading to ram within disk image settings;
08: Data area was accessible and all lost data was recovered successfully.
Any question is welcome to sales[at]dolphindatalab.com.
There’re many new hard drives with newer and higher firmware security level and data recovery engineers couldn’t read and write ROM directly by the existing firmware repair tools.
This article will introduce the easiest method and tools to read and write rom from these new locked drives such as the Western Digital SMR hard drives and new Seagate FW-EB01 hard drives.
This tool is called HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter and it is working perfectly together with RUS V5000 hdd programmer.
HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter features:
01: No need to remove PCB;
02: No need to remove ROM chip.
HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter Package contains the following adapters:
WD 800022 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 800041 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 800065 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 800066 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 800067 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 800069 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 800077 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 810003 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 810011 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 810012 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 810033 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 810035 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 810067 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
WD 810082 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
Seagate 100835923 EB01 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
Seagate 100870309 HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapter
With above clip adapters, users can read the locked hdd rom easily and then generate unlock rom by firmware repair tools and then write unlock rom by the clip adapters. After firmware unlock, users can repair firmware failures by the existing firmware repair tools such as DFL-SRP Portable all-in-one data recovery tool.
This is one Seagate ST2000NM012A-2MP130 hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study from one Dolphin user in Colombia. The user failed to fix this case by other data recovery tools and then applied for remote support from Dolphin engineers.
Patient HDD iD:
ST2000NM012A-2MP130
Family: B5 Cimarron
Patient HDD Symptoms
HDD detected but all sectors are not accessible
HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps
01: Seagate hdd rom backup and unlock rom generation by DFL seagate hdd repair software;
02: Write unlock rom, power off and on, send unlock key to unlock firmware area;
03: Backup important SYS files;
04: Remove password-2;
05: Repair module 40;
06: Write back original ROM;
07: Open DFL-DDP data recovery software and all lost partitions and folders are available for immediate data recovery.
Any question is welcome to sales[@]dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin skype ID: dolphin.data.lab
This is one Western Digital SMR patient HDD-WD40EZAX with DWF error and this case study is to explain how to fix the DWF error and get the lost data back.
When this patient drive was received, it’s not possible to access the data area, whenever trying to access the data area, the user got the DWF error.
The following steps are very important and basic to do before firmware repair:
01: Backup rom with pin reader；
02: Generate unlock rom by DFL-WD firmware repair tool;
03: Write unlock rom by pin reader
Next by DFL-WD, users can:
04: Disable 411
05: Backup module 190 and 02 and other important firmware modules;
06: Test firmware modules and find out which modules are damaged
Next users can
07: Repair damaged 02 and 190;
08: Write new 02 and 190;
09: Enable 411 and restart firmware;
10: Open DFL-DDP data recovery tool and all lost partitions, folders and files are recovered.
Any question is welcome to [email protected] or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab
This is one very interesting Seagate ST2000LM009 hdd firmware repair and data recovery case study.
When power on the patient hdd, users get continuous error messages:
TotalEntries:0067 XfrLen:0248
UnrecovSectorCount:0067,0066,0248
Retry error:44030094
ReadContinuous: 122F5D09,00000248
CFD twk 59->50
…
Users cannot enter F3 T> easily.
Here is the video data recovery case study with details on how to fix above COM terminal errors and recover the lost data.
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