Dolphin Data Lab offers the most cost-effective hard drive head replacement tools to data recovery engineers worldwide for successful physical hdd data recovery.
In many patient drives, the actual platter and head number are different from the designed physical platter and head number. Some of the heads can be cut physically and are not used at all. For example, the patient HDD was designed to have 4 platters and 8 heads but actually the patient HDD has only 3 platters and 6 heads.
The following is one example HDD-MQ03ABB200M:
Users can check the parking ramp carefully and can find the parking ramp has 4 separators(4 platters) and therefore users need to select one head comb with 4 separators.
Watch the video demo here for this patient HDD
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Head replacement tool for WD Spyglass I II III 800041 800022 810035 HDDs is available here.
The following drives belong to Spyglass I, II, III
WD30NMZW
WD40NMZW
WD40NDZW
WD40NDZM
WD40NMZM
WD40NPZZ
WD50NMZM
WD50NPZZ
WD50NDZW
Users can use the head combs within Western Digital HDD Head Comb Suite to separate the heads securely and perform head swap.
In many cases, the surface laptops are dead/broken, the laptops won’t boot up at all and users cannot access to the partitions and files at all.
At this kind of situation, users need to solder the data chip(BGA chip) off the motherboard, some users can try to solder these data chips to one donor good motherboard to read data but this is timeconsuming and the cost is not friendly. Some users try to repair the motherboard to read data but this requires very skilled experience of motherboard repair.
In order to make the data recovery easier, Dolphin Data Lab offers the following two professional data recovery adapters:
Surface Pro Data Drive Recovery Adapter Smart
Surface Pro Data Drive Recovery USB Adapter-SK
Users just simply put the data drive chip to the adapter and then connect the adapter to the computer and then users can view the data directly.
Here is the video demo. of the Surface Pro Data Drive Recovery Adapter Smart
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DFL Seagate HDD Firmware Repair User Manual 2024 is available to Dolphin Seagate users worldwide.
Seagate Firmware Repair Manual Index
01: DFL Seagate Hardware & Software P1-2
02: Seagate HDD Types and Working Modes P5-6
03: Look Into Seagate T> Drives(Old Drives) P6-24
3.0 Seagate T>Drive Families P6-7
3.1 Firmware Modules of Seagate T> Drives P7-8
3.2 Identify Corrupted Module P8-10
3.3 How to Fix Corrupted Modules of T> Drives P10
3.4 SMART and G-list P11
3.5 T drives Common Commands and Tips P11-18
3.6 Common Failures and Solutions for T> Drives P18-22
3.7 How to judge if it’s head damage P22-24
04: Look Into Seagate F3 T> Drives (New Drives) P24-64
4.1 F3 Families P24
4.2 How to Identify F3 drives P24-25
4.3 Important Firmware Modules of F3 T> Drives P25
4.4 Important SYS files of F3 T>Drives P25
4.5 General Steps to use DFL Seagate hdd firmware repair software P25-26
4.6 Power on Patient HDD, hdd is not spinning, what to do? P26-27
4.7 How to Repair Weak-Head HDDs by adjusting adaptive temperature P27-28
4.8 How to Edit Head Map in ROM P28-30
4.9 How to Obtain Preamp Type; P30-31
4.10 How to Edit Head Map in RAM P31-32
4.11 Swap Heads Directly if FAIL Servo Op=0100 Resp=0003 Keeps Coming P32
4.12 How to Fix ‘SimError-remaining in BootFW’, ‘Perform a double download without a power cycle’ P32-33
4.13 Patient Drive is Busy or LED and Cannot Enter F3 T>, What to Do? P33-42
>Short connect PCB to enter F3 T> for old F3 drives; P33-34
>Virtual boot by writing adaptive rom and load SYS20D to enter F3 T>; P34-35
>Generate and write adaptive CC49 ROM for 7200.12 3F family and load CC49 loader with the same head number; P35-36
>Load Backup and Write; P36-39
>Disable Subsystem; P39-41
>Grasp the best time to enter F3 T> before the HDD enters LED status; P41
>How swap to access F3 T>; P41-42
4.14 ROM Backup and Write; P42-47
4.15 How to unlock firmware area if locked; P44-47
4.16 Seagate Lombard(70) and Megalodon(63) Firmware Unlock; P47-48
4.17 How to backup SYS files/firmware modules? P48-53
>The sys file table is empty and the sys files aren’t listed, how to backup sys files? P51
>How to Read SYS by Menu-Edit SYS Files P51-53
4.18 How to write SYS file(SYS 35-NGlist) P53-54
4.19 How to fix the partial sector access firmware failure without SYS35 backup(partial sector access auto repair) P54-55
4.20 How to Edit HDD ID; P55-56
4.21 How to fix the data ‘encryption’ issue of Seagate F3 HDD? P56-59
>01: Remove Password or Remove Password 2; P56
>02: Seagate SMR Format Recovery; P56-57
>03: B2 Data Offset Fix; P57-58
>04: Unlock the firmware area permanently; P58-59
4.22 How to Test SYS Files; P59-61
4.23 How to Fix Seagate Slow Issue and Lots of Starting LBA of RW Request Errors P61-62
4.24 Common Seagate HDD Firmware Failure Fix-Quick Firmware Repair Solutions P62-63
4.25 Seagate SSHD(Kahuna_5400) Doesn’t Spin Up, How to Fix? P63
4.26 Functions or Operations Which Can Destroy Data P63-64
Users can get this latest user manual from Dolphin support engineer or your sales representative.
Any question is welcome to [email protected] or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab
New head replacement tool is added for Seagate Samsung HDD-ST2000LM005, this drive has 3 platters and 6 heads, users can use this new head replacement tool to separate the heads properly and securely.
This new head replacement tool is available within the hard drive ramp toolkit and there’re many more new hard drives head replacement tools are also added to this product.
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment user manual update 2024 is now available for Dolphin users worldwide.
The following is the new user manual index：
1.0 DDP Application Range-When Do I Need to Use DDP P4-8
1.1 Universal steps to use DDP for data recovery purpose P4-8
2.0 How to make best use of bad sector scan P5-8
2.1 Few bad sectors’ case P7
2.2 Many bad sectors’case P8
2.3 Full disk bad sectors’ case P8
3.0 Log Window-Important to check P8
4.0 How to Extract the Lost Data Directly P8-22
4.1 If the lost partition is not listed automatically, what to do? P12-13
4.2 If the folders and files cannot be listed, what to do? P14-16
4.3 How to recover selected files? P17
4.4 How to extract lost data from VHD(VHDX) or image file? P17-22
5.0 How to Image the Patient Hard Drive P22-
5.1 General Steps to Start one Disk Image Task P23-27
5.2 Image to Disk or Image to File P25-26
5.3 How to Image Patient HDDs with Weak Heads after Head Swap P27-36
5.4 Run Multi-pass Imaging P32-36
5.5 How to Image Patient HDDs with Many bad Sectors in the Front LBAs P36-37
5.6 How to Image Patient Hard Drives with High Efficiency P37-43
5.7 Recover by File Types P37-39
5.8 Data-only Imaging P39-43
5.9 How to set target disk P41-42
5.10 How to Image Patient HDDs with Bitlocker Protected P43-45
5.11 How to Recover WD USB-SATA Patient Hard Drives P45-46
DFL-DDP Common HDD Firmware Repair Solutions
6.0 ATA Commands P47
7.0 WD Common HDD Repair Solutions P47-51
7.1 Remove Password P48
7.2 Slow Fix P48
7.3 Load Loaders P48
7.4 Show Microcode P48
7.5 Edit Head map in RAM and Load T2Data P48-49
7.6 Steps to Repair Module 190 P49-50
7.7 Change Disk Configuration P51
8.0 Seagate Common HDD Repair Solutions P52-55
8.1 Seagate HDD Firmware Repair Basic but Important Knowledge P53-54
8.2 Seagate F3 Universal Repair Commands P54-55
9.0 Samsung HDD Common Repair Solutions P55-56
9.1 LED 1AXX Fix P56
9.2 Clear-Alist P56
9.3 Remove Password P56
10.0 Toshiba HDD Common Repair Solutions P56-57
10.1 Clear Glist P56
10.2 Toshiba Auto Virutal Translator P56-57
11.0 Hitachi Common HDD Repair Solutions P57-60
11.1 Hitachi Auto Virutal Translator P59-60
Users can download the latest user manual 2024 from the Dolphin user-only forum.
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