For hard drives of all hdd brands, if they are encrypted by ATA password, they are usually full of exclamatory marks when you try to scan them by MHDD and users are warned about PWD telling the hdd is locked.

Due to the special design of hitachi hard drives which have three copies of firmware, copy 1, copy 2 and a backup copy of firmware. After the hard drive is encrypted, the working zones of firmware copies are protected, the NVRAM cannot be edited too. Anyway, the contents of the NVRAM are not affected and the factory firmware copy is not protected.

For Hitachi hard drives, they can be ready by connecting the PCB alone. Users need to have some tools to enter the firmware backup copy, read the password module within this copy and write it to the copy 1. If the password module of backup copy is damaged, users need to find a donor password module of the same series of hdd to write. After this module write, the password is usually removed. Read more

Since the release the DFL-WDII hdd repair tool and DFL-DE data recovery tool, Dolphin Data Lab has attracted more and more data recovery engineers within less one year.

Until so far, all our clients come to us by word of mouth and then help to spread the word and then continues this way;

Until so far, we have never had one commercial advertisement because we don’t really need it. Our tools,functions and services speak for us.

Again, we must say data recovery is one serious art! Read more

In order to offer better-functioned and more secured data recovery hardware devices to data recovery engineers worldwide, Dolphin Data Lab has been testing all its tools both internally and externally.

We have sent our tools DFL-DE data recovery tool and DFL-WDII hdd repair tool to a third-party authority for testing and checking if it conforms to CE terms and conditions and now it has been confirmed by the authority these tools are properly designed and get approved for issuing the CE certificates. Read more

This is another hdd repair bad sector repair case study, it’s one WD10EARS 1TB hdd. We wrote this case study not showing how powerful our tool is, but the most important is to demo how to diagnose one hdd in different methods and how to find out the solutions. A right way of thinking makes you more successful.

The user tried to use format with P-list to remove the bad sectors but after the format and scanned the hdd, there’re still a lot of bad sectors, full of green and read blocks. Read more

This data recovery technical document is one case study introducing how DFL-WDII hdd repair tool is used to repair damaged WD hdds which are working very slow with many regular bad sectors without clicking noises.

For this kind of problem, we usually consider it’s caused by the ID module or translator problem.

The hdd is one WD SATA 1TB hdd whose model is WD10EVDS-63U880. Luckily the hdd can reach readiness status.

The response was very slow and the hdd was detected after some time.

The user went to scan the HDD and found a lot of regular and typical bad sectors. Read more

It’s sometimes very useful to fix clicking hard drives with a small scratched area by using one of the new features of in DFL-WDII hdd repair tool version 2.4-adding defects by LBA range.

For some clicking hard drives with a small scratched area, they are still detected and the hdd can become ready in DFL-WDII.

When users scan these patient hard drives, users can find red squares which are read-failed sectors within the scratched area and send loud clicking noises. Read more

The Spring Festival holiday has come to the end and most companies including shipping companies have come back from holiday to work.Shipping companies are able to pick the tools from us and ship worldwide from next Monday on February 18.

Dolphin Data Lab has been all the time processing the orders placed during the holiday and we will ship all the data recovery tools out on Monday. We have prepared and tested all the ordered products and all the necessary shipping documents.

Within the holiday, our engineers have been answering the forums with in-time support and help clients to fix their cases and besides, many of our respected friends are helping a lot in the forums too and we are here sending our best wishes and thanks to them. Read more

We’ve talked about some parts of logical data recovery in a previous article on How To Fix Data Loss By System Error and Bad Tracks and this article is going to look inside of logical data recovery for other logical data loss causes.

File Loss

If a file is lost due to deletion, drive format, or a Ghost clone error: it is possible to recover the deleted files using special Data recovery software designed for this purpose. It might be necessary to try different data recovery software to find all lost files. Read more

DFL-WD II hdd repair tool offers the users options to repair WD USB hard disk drives.

This article gives you the general idea of what functions are available with USB hdds.
DFL-WDII offers two channels: ATA and USB channel. For WD USB HDDs, users need to select USB channel. For USB hdds which can be detected and become ready in DFL-WDII, for WD USB hdds which have had PCB swap from USB interface to SATA interface or which have been converted from USB interface to SATA interface. Read more

DFL-Data Dr. Pro is not one simple traditional high-speed data copy machine or hdd duplicator but it’s one specially and innovatively designed high-speed data recovery equipment for faulty hard drives with TB-level capacities such as 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB, 3TB and even 4TB hard drives. It can be also used to recover USB interfaced external hard drives and USB flash drives.

We’ve recently received a lot of feedback from data recovery engineers worldwide that they’re facing more and more TB-designed hard drives and the current data recovery tools or equipment they have cannot properly meet their needs. They often fail to give the lost data back in time. Many clients need data urgently and wish to get their data back in the same day. Besides, many clients are dealing with faulty drives, traditional or common data copy tools or hdd duplicators cannot handle faulty drives with bad sectors, unstable heads, common hdd failures, logical system errors or bad tracks, etc. Read more