Head and Platter Swap Section 1: General Principles & Facts

Head and Platter Swap Tutorials

Physical head and platter swap is one of the most common data recovery cases and so far in the data recovery field, this kind of case is not for all data recovery engineers due to its complexity and requirement.

The key to get high success rate of head replacement and platter swap is continuing practice and learning from others’ experience;

To work on head and platter swap cases, users need firstly one clean room environment;

When users are swapping heads, users need to understand the hard drives with bad heads requiring data recovery from are usually called source drives or patient drives, the hard drives with matching good heads are usually called donor hard drives; Read more

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Happy Summer Holidays To All Data Recovery Engineers

This is right now a golden opportunity to those data recovery engineers who have summer holidays and it’s a good time to relax your brain, release your body and take care of your family and life and after the summer holidays engineers can start again their data recovery business with fresh ideas and energy.

It’s a pity Dolphin Data Lab doesn’t have the summer holidays and keep working all the standard working days and hours and we keep researching on some new data recovery tools and solutions and when engineers come back from the summer holidays, engineers can enjoy working with these new stuff. Read more

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Dolphin Data Lab Released New Manuals For Its New Data Recovery Software

Dolphin Data Lab has recently released not only the latest version of DFL-DE data recovery tool version 1.5 and DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment version 1.1, but the latest version of user manual and instruction has been being offered.

And today we have finished the latest version-1.5 of DFL-DE user manual and tips explaining how to use the new data recovery functions.

Section I Index

1.1 DFL-DE Hardware Overview P3-4
1.2 How To Connect Hard Drives To DFL-DE P5-6
1.3 COM Port Connection Tips P7-10
1.4 How To Install DFL-DE Software P10-21 Read more

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How To Recover Head Damaged Clicking Hard Drives With Bad Sectors In SA

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Patient HDD ID:

Model: WD3200AAJS-00L7A0; Serial Number: WCAV2K523946; PCB 1590 Series

When the hdd was received and it was clicking, by listening to the clicking hard drives, the engineer can tell it’s one head damaged hdd. For users without enough experience, users can use our force loading technology to judge whether it’s firmware clicking or head-related clicking.

Users can always compare the good drives’ working sounds and patient drives’ working sounds, when you listen to them more, it’s easy to tell them from each other. Read more

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To Watch The Live Demo Of Dolphin Latest Data Recovery Tools In Sydney Australia

We have recently setup the Australia sales and support center for all Dolphin Data Lab data recovery tools including the latest DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment, DFL-DE data recovery tool, DFL-WDII hdd repair tool, head and platter swap tools, microscopes, high-speed flash programmer, COM cable plus, etc.

This is one close cooperation with our Partner-Dolphin Data Recovery Pty Ltd and this support and sales center will offer more professional and localized and fast support to clients from Australia.

If users want to check live demo of Dolphin Data Lab data recovery tools and the latest data recovery technologies in Sydney Australia, users can contact Dolphin Data Recovery Center Australia or contact our head office Dolphin Data Lab in Chengdu. Read more

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2013 Top 11 Disk Imaging Technologies & Features

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For a higher success rate of hdd repair and data recovery, cheers!

1, Smart Disk Image Technology

The program offers users two modes to image the patient hard drive: UDMA Mode and PIO mode and the program is able to detected the health status of each sector based on its response time of being read and written and then the program automatically select the right data transfer mode UDMA or PIO to read each sector differently. That’s to say to read good sectors in UDMA mode and to read Bad sectors in PIO mode and the whole process is automatically done by the program itself.

2, Double Channels’ Images

Advanced imaging features handling disk imaging tasks from two patient disks at the same time, double the disk imaging efficiency from faulty hard drives; Read more

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DFL-DDP USB3.0 Data Recovery Equipment Reaches A High Level Of Recovery Success

Based on the version 1.0, DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment version 1.1 is one huge upgrade with many new disk imaging features, new file recovery features and new common hdd repair solutions.

DFL-DDP version 1.1 becomes one truly powerful and cost-effective data recovery equipment. To own one DFL-DDP sometimes beat owning several other similar data recovery tools.

Let’s check what’re new features added in DFL-DDP version 1.1?

1, To recover data by file types-raw recovery is added;
2, To image by file is added;
3, Multi-pass image is added;
4, VMFS3/VMFS4 file system support is added;
5, To enable/disable MBR is added;
6, To display the file details is added;
7, To copy LBA to clipboard is added;
8, To terminate the ID read when it takes long to read ID;
9, To skip the LBA when scanning the sectors;
10,APP/ATA backup of Seagate Baraccuda 7200.7-10, 5400.3(Default baud rate is 9600); Read more

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Dolphin Data Lab Official Reseller In Brazil Makes Our Support There More Localized

We sincerely show our great respect to our official reseller in Brazil-PCdiag!

Dolphin Data Lab has cooperated with our first official reseller in Brazil-PCdiag for some time with great performance in supporting our users of DFL-DE data recovery tool, DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment and DFL-WDII hdd repair tools and our head and platter swap tools.

Due to the special situations and strict importing policies of Brazil, it’s more important for users there to have and use the most cost-effective hdd repair tools and data recovery tools.If users select the wrong tools to go with, they will mostly spend much more money to change tools and they will be charged again the high tax cost and new cost in new tools and new shipping cost.

Just because of above reasons, Dolphin Data Lab works hard with all our resellers and partners and our users to create the DFL series data recovery tools, to improve them, to add new features and functions, to offer detailed case studies and manuals, to offer more and more resources, etc. Read more

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Check Live Demo Of Dolphin Data Recovery Tools In France

Dolphin Data Lab has recently entered partnership with AGDI to offer our tools in France and new users and interests can make an appointment to see the live demo of the Dolphin Data Lab primary data recovery tools-DFL-DDP USB3.0 data recovery equipment and DFL-WDII hdd firmware repair tool.

AGDI France is one professional IT services company and hdd repair and data recovery are two of their key services and their CEO-William Simon is one professional data recovery engineer and very helpful and responsible for all his jobs and clients.Dolphin Data Lab feel proud to work with AGDI and its owner.

Users can make an appointment with either Dolphin Data Lab or AGDI France to check the above tools and see in person how they work for your data recovery success. Read more

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How To Select Data Recovery Tools Wisely For Data Recovery Success

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There’re many data recovery tools in the market today including different priced and functioned data recovery software and hardware. However, We must disappoint you to say most of the tools are not actually working or meeting users’ needs.

Almost each country has engineers who are able to create data recovery software and therefore most data recovery kits users find are data recovery software utilities. As for data recovery hardware or data recovery hardware and software complex tools, few companies of few countries are able to manufacture them and support them due to the high cost of hardware design, hardware moduling,embedding codes,codes encryption,software integration, software testing, hardware firmware design, interface design
and coding, etc.

Data Recovery Hardware Or Software and Hardware Complex Tools Have A Higher Level Of Solutions To Damaged Hard Drives, Flash Drives, SSDs, etc. and therefore, if users are planning to start a data recovery business, start one in-house data recovery sector or improve their data recovery capabilities, users must select data recovery hardware or software and hardware complex tools. Read more

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