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

Dolphin team feel proud to say all our staffs are happily working hard for a higher success rate generated from our data recovery tools and a greater success from all our honored users.

We are happy Dolphins!

Most staffs in our company are engineers and our happy thing is each little progress within our research and development of new data recovery tools and solutions or even a fix to the bug reported from the user or even a simple new feature request met quickly to help with clients’ daily data recovery cases. Read more

According to users’ feedback, we have had a quick fix to our DFL-DE USB2.0 and DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment within the following three functions:

1, Fix the bug of imaging USB drives connected to PC;
2, DMA abnormal read error was fixed after mounting the disks;
3, Optimize the running compatibility with the PC so that DDP works more stably. Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has again upgraded its Seagate Firmware Repair hardware tool-DFL-FRP for ST and the latest version is V1.43.

We have added many new Seagate hard drive firmware repair functions and optimized some existing functions so that users will enhance their success rate a lot.

Quick view of the latest changes within this new version:

1, New function of entering booting code to read/write ROM without short connection is added by COM port. This function is very helpful to save time and enhance success rate of Seagate firmware repair when the ROM write is required; Read more

This was one case study of Seagate F3 hard drive refurbishing, to refurbish the hard drive means the client doesn’t need the data inside the drive, because the functions used in this case study will destroy the data.

So users must backup the firmware resources, must learn whether it’s to refurbish the hard drive or recover the data before operating on the hard drives.

The hard drive ID information is as below:

Model: ST500DM002-1BD142; Firmware version: KC43; Capacity: 500GB; Serial Number: 6VMXTPTB Read more

From the setup of Dolphin Data Lab and the creation of DFL series data recovery tools, to make our users more successful in their data recovery business is the only target of all Dolphin data recovery engineers and staffs.

Dolphin Data Lab has always gained the support from all our existing users and they keep recommending new clients to us, they even post their successful case studies to their friend community and Dolphin Data Lab keep releasing new data recovery solutions and tools and we all together create a big Dolphin family and Dolphin users have been distributed in over 100 countries. Read more