DFL DDP data recovery software works with DFL-SRP, DFL-PCIe and DFL-URE data recovery hardware. DFL-DDP is mainly used to image patient hard drives, extract files directly or fix common hard drive firmware failures.

DFL-DDP helps to image faulty hard drives with many bad sectors;
DFL-DDP helps to image faulty hard drives with weak heads;
DFL-DDP helps to fix faulty hard drives’ common firmware failures;
DFL-DDP helps to image or extract lost data from external hard drives directly by connecting one Dolphin SATA to USB adapter;
DFL-DDP helps to image or extract lost data from NVME SSDs by connecting one Dolphin SATA/NVME to USB adapter;
DFL-DDP helps to image or extract lost data from USB flash drives by connecting one Dolphin SATA to USB adapter.

With DFL-DDP, Users can make best use of the disk image or file extraction settings:

Write blocking;
Set LBA range to image;
Forward read or backward read;
Set read block size;
high-speed/low speed/intelligent read;
Soft reset/hard reset/power reset;
Settings for sector read timeout values, sectors to skip, etc;
Set up head map for hard drives to image good heads and then image weak heads;

With DFL-DDP, users can fix the following common firmware failures:

Seagate common firmware failures fix-Busy, undetected/wrongly detected, capacity 0 fix; SIM error fix;
Western Digital hard drive common firmware failures fix-slow fix, edit head map in ram, smart reset, password removal, etc;
Samsung hard drive common firmware failures fix-clear alist, led fix, etc;
Hitachi hard drive common firmware failures fix-virtual translator;
Toshiba hard drive common firmware failures fix-clear g-list, virtual translator, etc.

Please note: if the faulty drives are not spinning, this can be head totally damaged, motor stuck, PCB burnt or rom damage, users need to fix the physical issue or rom corruption and then users can diagnose further on firmware area and then image the faulty drives or extract files.

If users want to repair complicated firmware failures or want to operate on firmware modules, users need the DFL firmware repair tools.

Any question is welcome to [email protected] or add Dolphin Skype ID:dolphin.data.lab

Dolphin Data Lab will be closed for International Labor Day Holiday from tomorrow, April 29th, 2023 until May 3rd, 2023. We will resume normal business hours on May 4th, 2023.

During the holiday period, we will continue to check and answer emails but orders delivery will be made after the holiday period. Remote technical support service will not be available during this time.

Dolphin Data Lab wishes all our customers a safe, happy, relax and unwind Labor Day holiday!

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Dolphin Data Lab has released one new data recovery hardware tool-DFL SATA to SAS Adapter and this adapter is used to connect SAS hard drives and convert SAS interfaces to SATA interfaces.

Promotion: Free shipping worldwide by DHL express before May 31, 2023!

By this SAS adapter, users can connect SAS hard drives to the popular ATA data recovery equipment such as DFL SRP USB3.0 all-in-one data recovery equipment or DFL PCIe data recovery equipment or other similar data recovery devices with SATA ports. Users can make best use of the disk image or file extraction settings:

Write blocking;
Set LBA range to image;
Forward read or backward read;
Set read block size;
high-speed/low speed/intelligent read;
Soft reset/hard reset/power reset;
Settings for sector read timeout values, sectors to skip, etc.

Please note: This adapter is hardware only, doesn’t contain any software, users need to use this adapter with SATA data recovery equipment.

If users wish to image the SAS drives with non-standard sector sizes of 518, 520, 522, 528, etc to target drives or to a file with standard sector size of 512 bytes, users need to use Dolphin Data Recovery Assistant Pro.

Any question is welcome to [email protected] or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

Dolphin Data Lab has again upgraded the most powerful CCTV DVR data recovery software-Dolphin DVR and the latest software version is V3.71.

Latest Dolphin DVR Software:Version V3.7.1
Date:2023-04-14

What’s new in this latest DVR data recovery software?

01. Canon EOS 200D camera video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
02. Canon POWERSHOT SX40 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
03. Canon IXUS 185 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
04. Nikon COOLPIX S6000 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
05. Nikon D5100 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
06. Nikon D3200 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
07. FUJIFILM X-S10 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
08. Casio EX S880 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
09. KONICA MINOLTA X1 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
10. DDPAI X2SPRO video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
11. Tesla video recorder video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
12. Kodak C643 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
13. Sony FDR ASP55 video recovery/fragmented video file restructuring is added;
14. Further enhance DVR video analysis and restructuring capabilities.

Any question is welcome to [email protected] or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

This Seagate ST2000LM007-1R8174 faulty hard drive was capacity 0 detected and after initial firmware repair there’re many bad sectors by logical scan.

Patient HDD ID:

Model : ST2000LM007-1R8174
Serial : WDZKYE4W
Firmware : EB01
Capacity : 3907029168 (1863.02GB)
Sector size : 4096
Heads number : 4

FW info : Obtained
FW version : R1AEA069E.SDM4.AA4901.EB01
FW package P/N : 100849195
FW ID : 00305567
FW creation date : 2019/01/22
FW creation time : 20:23:31
CFW version : R1AEA069E.SDM4.AA4901.01618036.0
SFW1 version : 0305567.EB01

Modules list : Obtained
Modules number : 57

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:

Undetected/wrongly detected/Many bad sectors

Required HDD repair tools and Data Recovery Tools to recover lost data:

DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool
DFL DDP Data Recovery Equipment

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

1, Backup ROM;
2, Generate unlock ROM and write unlock ROM;
3, Power off and on and send unlock key;
4, Backup important sys files;
5, Clear g-list, clear smart;
6, Initialize ID (ATA), clear media cache, disable vacant active, etc.

Any question is welcome to [email protected] or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

This is one successful Western Digital hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study for one Dolphin user in Peru.

Patient HDD ID:

WDC WD5000LPVX-80V0TT0
WD-WXQ1E34CLXH4
465 GB(976773168)
SPT: 1437
Family: HUBBLELT

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:

Inaccessible data area, full disk bad sectors

Required HDD repair tools and data recovery tools to fix the faulty hard drive:

DFL-WD hdd repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

Patient HDD repair and data recovery steps:

1, Backup ROM and key firmware modules;
2, Slow fix;
3, Test firmware modules and found the module 32 was corrupted and couldn’t be read;
4, Wrote donor module 32;
5, Right click on module 32 and clear the module;
6, Restart firmware;
7, Open DFL-DDP data recovery equipment and the lost partition and folders and files were all recovered.

Any question is welcome to [email protected] or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab