Recently we got some new beginners who want to start a data recovery or hdd refurbishing business and they asked one questions: ‘how do I know if the hard drive belongs to F3 series.

Let’s share today how to find out whether it’s Seagate F3 hard drive.

Seagate hard drives can work in both ATA and COM mode, within COM terminal, if users press CTRL+Z, users will get either T> or F3 T>. So if users get F3 T>, it’s one F3 drive. Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has released the new version of our Western Digital firmware repair tool-DFL-FRP for WD and now users can download this new version from our user-only forum. The latest version is V2.56.

The following are the new changes:

1, Optimize the log messages;
2, Map interface optimization;
3, Processing bar display during sector erasing is fixed; Read more

We are sorry but we have to declare that the new versions of DFL data recovery tools will stop supporting the Windows XP system.

The existing versions of Dolphin data recovery supporting Windows XP system:

1, DFL-DDP Version 1.34 and previous versions;
2, DFL-DE Version 1.74 and previous versions;
3, DFL-FRP WD Version 2.55 and previous versions;
4, DFL-FRP ST Version 1.41 and previous versions. Read more

Dolphin Data Lab Offers More And More Seagate F3 Firmware Repair Solutions.

Dolphin Data Lab keeps upgrading its advanced Seagate firmware repair tools and adding more and more new functions for both the old Seagate HDD families, the most important more new functions for the Seagate F3 hard drives.
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Since the new version of V1.34, Dolphin Data lab has added the selective head image support of 4kb sector sized hard drives such as the Seagate DM series-DM001, DM003, DM005, the 7200.14 hard drives and all other 4KB new hard drives.

This new support and feature makes all data recovery engineers more successful in recovering these damaged new hard drives and people will like DFL-DDP more. Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has further upgraded its advanced Seagate firmware repair and password removal tool and now the new version has quickly changed from V.14 to V1.41.

Within the new version 1.41, we have the following changes:

1, LBA>CHS
2, SYS read/write by COM/ATA;
3, More F3 common firmware resources are integrated; Read more