How DFL-DDP Helps to Recover Lost Data from Faulty Drives

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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

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Dolphin Labor Day Holiday Notice 2023

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!

For more information about Dolphin Data Lab’s products and services, please visit our website at www.dolphindatalab.com.

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DFL SATA to SAS Adapter Plus for SAS Drive Imaging and Recovery is Available

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

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Latest Dolphin CCTV DVR Data Recovery Software V3.71

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

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ST2000LM007-1R8174 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps from DFL User in Malaysia

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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

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WDC WD5000LPVX-80V0TT0 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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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

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WDC WD20NPVZ-00WFZT0 Hard Drive Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one successful western digital undetected hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study from one DFL user in India.

Patient HDD ID:

Model number: WDC WD20NPVZ-00WFZT0
Serial Number: WD-WXN1A776ZHTN
Capacity: 1863GB
Head number: 8
SPT: 1480
Family: SHREKLT

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:

Undetected/data inaccessbile

Hard Drive Firmware Repair Tools and Data Recovery Hardware Tools Required:

DFL Western Digital HDD Repair Tool
DFL DDP Data Recovery Equipment

Hard Drive Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

Backup ROM;
Disable 411 and restart firmware;
Refresh hdd ID;
Backup hard drive firmware modules (important modules);
Slow fix-mode 1;
Enable 411 and restart firmware;
Refresh hdd ID;
Open DFL-DDP data recovery equipment and software;
Set up head map and image good heads and good sectors and then weak heads and sectors;
Finally all lost data was recovered from the faulty WD hard drive.

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

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ST1000VX005-2EZ102 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one nice data recovery case study from one DFL user in India, the patient drive is firmware locked and the data area is not accessed.

Model : ST1000VX005-2EZ102
Serial : Z9CC69D2
Firmware : CV11
Capacity : 1953525168 (931.51GB)
Sector size : 4096
Heads number : 2

Rst 0x40M
2Sync:01 0E

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5
Retry delay

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5

EDAC Value = 00000000FFFFFFF5
Retry delay
LD: Size:00000028 HBlocks:0000 Size:002BD17F HBlocks:0032 Size:00282A49 HBlocks:0032 FlashRestore 00000000 00000028 ECBD
PP: Size:0000B400 HBlocks:0000 FlashRestore
PVTSize: 000150C8 CompSize: 000002B2 DeCompSize: 000150C8 00000000 000002B2 9E03
2Sync:00 04
DSP022B
No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags 0002A1A1
2Sync:01 0C
Boot 0x40M

SpinUp
RECOV Servo Op=0100 Resp=0005
RECOV Servo Op=0055 Resp=0005[LBA=0x00006B6F]N[LBA=0x00006C28]N0[LBA=0x00006D5D]N0[LBA=0x000070A1]N0[LBA=0x000070C2]N0[LBA=0x0000737C]N0[LBA=0x000073EB]N0[LBA=0x000074EE]N0[LBA=0x00007500]N0[LBA=0x0000775C]N0

Trans
Rst 0x40M
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E
2Sync:01 0E

(P) SATA Reset

LD: Size:00000028 HBlocks:0000 Size:002BD17F HBlocks:0032 Size:00282A49 HBlocks:0032 DiscRestore 00000000 00000028 04ED
PP: Size:0000B400 HBlocks:0000 DiscRestore
PVTSize: 000150C8 CompSize: 000002B2 DeCompSize: 000150C8 00000000 000002B2 9E03
2Sync:00 04
DSP022C^c

ASCII Diag mode

F3 T>^l

Diagnostic Port Locked

To fix above patient drive, the user used DFL Seagate hdd repair tool to backup rom, generate unlock rom, write unlock ROM, power off and on, send unlock key, backup important SYS files, clear g-list, regenerate translator, etc.

After fixing the firmware area, the users tested the data area and found there’re some bad sectors in the front, the middle and ending parts of data areas were accessible.

The user set up head map, edited the LBA range to image the patient hdd by heads within DFL-DDP data recovery equipment and finally most data was recovered, only some system files were missing which are not important at all.

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

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New Software Upgrade for DFL all-in-one Data Recovery Hardware Tools

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Dolphin Data Lab has released the new DFL all in one data recovery software V20230301 to work with the data recovery hardware tools.

The new V20230301 data recovery software has been uploaded to DFL user-only forum and users can login the forum to upgrade to the latest. It’s strongly recommended for all DFL users to upgrade to latest for the best firmware repair and data recovery success rate.

What’s new in this new software upgrade?

01: ST8000NM0105 G001 G004 Firmware Repair Support Added to DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool, other firmware versions can be unlocked with old software. There’s now a new mode option-Mode 2 when users are trying to generate the unlock ROM, users need to select mode 2;
02: Seagate SMR hdd format data recovery such as rosewood EB01 format recovery;
03: Seagate weak head repair for new F3 families for data recovery purpose, it is very helpful for some weak head cases which don’t require head swap;
04: DFL-DDP image setting enhancement: enhance success rate for the following drives and cases:
WD SMR drives with all sectors 0000, Seagate drives SEDU, 241A, etc.
05: Full firmware repair and data recovery software codes improvement to get the software working more smoothly and excellently;
…

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

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Seagate Rosewood HDD Slow Firmware Backup Idle Error Fix

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This is one Seagate Rosewood portable hard drive-ST2000LM007 and when our engineer was trying to backup the firmware modules, it’s very slow with some slight noises.

It seems like some noises from the heads, seems like some kind of damage on the heads but actually not.

Patient HDD ID:

Model number: ST2000LM007-1R8174
Serial number: WDZVJ06Z
Firmware: EB01
Capacity: 3907029168
Sector Size: 4096
Heads number: 4
Family: Janus (AF)

ST2000LM007 Error messages:

Rstﾠ0x80M

T:0x0000 0x3FFFFFFF

FTU
TCC:0014:001D EMCDataErr:0000000C

PrgF

(P)ﾠSATAﾠReset

RAWﾠOFF

ﾠPASS

ﾠBothﾠcopyﾠisﾠsame!ﾠﾠﾠLPCDisc=01ﾠ1A326711ﾠ00C5

PrgF

6GbﾠMaxﾠSpeedﾠloweredﾠtoﾠ3GbﾠforﾠIntelﾠbug

SendﾠStatus:ﾠCOMRESETﾠseen

CSpd=ﾠ3Gbps

FIS34ﾠ
IDLE1
VC0

XI2
VC1

VC2Up
IDLE2
VC0

VC1

VC2Up
XI2
TCC:0014:0019 EMCDataErr:00000000

FAFH_TRIGGER_POWER_UP
IDLE2
VC0

It’s very easy to fix above firmware failure and get the ST2000LM007 patient hdd repaired by DFL Seagate hdd repair tool.

All users need to do is to go to the ‘Defects Management’>Initialize ID (ATA) and it’s just one simple click to fix above issue.

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

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