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Dolphin Data Lab has released the world’s top data recovery assisting tool-Dolphin DR Assistant Pro. and Dolphin DR Assistant Pro. is Dolphin’s first software-only tool. Whatever data recovery tools you are using, Dolphin DR Assistant Pro. can help to enhance data recovery efficiency and data recovery success rate.

Dolphin Data Recovery Assistant Pro. contains 6 modules:

01: Invalid Files;
02: Extension;
03: N.S Image;
04: Database Repair;
05: Raid Analysis;
06: File Rename.

The module ‘Invalid Files’ is used to organize the data for data recovery cases with many bad sectors, weak heads, scratched surfaces, etc. When the data was recovered from these cases, many files are corrupted and there’re also some other invalid files too within the recovered data. At this time, Dolphin DR Assistant can be used to find out the invalid files, delete empty folders, delete invalid files of ‘tmp’, ‘tem’, ‘temp’, ‘~’, ‘?’, ‘Ink’, delete files if ‘DEADDEAD’ accounts for 50% or above of files’ hex data. Besides, users can delete the invalid files according to file types.

Module ‘Extension’ is specially used to correct the file extensions by changing the wrong extensions to the original correct extensions. For example, users can easily correct the .chk files in ‘FOUND’ folders to normal recognized file extensions so that users can open the files successfully.

‘N.S Image’ module is used to image the 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. Drives with non-standard sector sizes are usually used in NetApp, EMC, HP, Hitachi/IBM high-end storage devices, common data recovery tools cannot even analyze them or image them. These drives appear as server Raid drives and therefore, users need to image all of the drives and analyze them, find out the necessary parameters, rebuild the raid array and finally get lost data back. During the recovery process, the conversion from non-standard sector sized hdds or image files to standard sector sized ones is very important and this is why users need to use Dolphin DR Assistant ‘N.S Image’ module.

‘File Rename’ software module is very helpful in many data recovery cases. When the files lose their original names by raw recovery, recovery by file types, virus’s malicious modification, etc, users can use Dolphin DR Assistant to rename those files by extracting the date, Sheet name(excel), content, size. Our engineers are usually using ‘content renaming method’ frequently so that we can easily find out the wanted files we need.

‘Raid Analysis’ module is specially designed to generate one detailed engineering log report file which contains the parameters of ‘Disk Order’, ‘Raid Type’, ‘Block Order-Left/Right, Synchronous/Asynchronous’, ‘Block Size’, ‘Parity Delay’, etc. For skilled raid recovery engineers, it takes several minutes to find out those parameters from the engineering report file and then it’s easy to rebuild raid array and find all lost data back. Without this file, it may take several hours or longer and very complicated for some raid types and cases and it is not possible to get the raid cases fixed for beginners!

‘Repair DB’ module is mainly used to repair SQL Server corrupted databases. All users need to do is to select the corrupted database, select the repaired database save path and add the backup database and then the ‘Repair DB’ software will automatically repair the damaged database and save them.

  • The ‘Repair DB’ software module is mainly for repairing corrupted databases caused by bad sectors or scratched surfaces.

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With DFL Seagate HDD firmware repair tool, users can easily fix the Seagate firmware corruption and get lost data from Seagate undetected or wrongly detected hard drives. The following is one successful data recovery case study from one DFL user in Indonesia.

The patient HDD was detected with capacity 0 and it’s not possible to access the data area.

Model : ST4000DM004-2CV104
Serial : ZFN1DWGH
Firmware : 0001
Capacity : 7814037168 (3726.02GB)
Sector size : 4096
Heads number : 4

FW info : Obtained
FW version : V0A84C279.DPC7.AF0055.0001
FW package P/N :
FW ID : 00352241
FW creation date : 2017/09/20
FW creation time : 02:50:11
CFW version : V0A84C279.DPC7.AF0055.01326721.0
SFW1 version : 0352241.0001

Modules list : Obtained
Modules number : 57

F3 T>^l
V11 CheopsLiteA SATA 2.0 RAP30.6.2 SMR 2MB Flash 250 zn zonedse
Product FamilyId: 9B, MemberId: 01
HDA SN: ZFN1DWGH, RPM: 5426, Wedges: 240, Heads: 4, OrigHeads: 4, ActiveHdMap: 000F, Lbas: 00003ADABD42, PreampType: 82 10
Bits/Symbol: C, Symbols/UserSector: CB6, Symbols/SystemSector: CB5
PCBA SN: 0000M8367P7K, Controller: CHEOPSLITE_1_0_SATA(1410), Channel: Unknown, PowerAsic: Unknown Rev 00, BufferBytes: 10000000
SF ID: EF 60, SF Part Size: 800, Flash Used: 800
Package Version: V0A84C279.DPC7.AF0055.0001 , Package P/N: ———, Package Global ID: 00352241,
Package Build Date: 09/20/2017, Package Build Time: 02:50:11, Package CFW Version: V0A84C279.DPC7.AF0055.01326721.00352241.0001 ,
Package SFW1 Version: 7924, Package SFW2 Version: —-, Package SFW3 Version: —-, Package SFW4 Version: —-
Controller FW Rev: 09200250, CustomerRel: 0001, Changelist: 01326721, ProdType: V0A84C2.DPC7QC, Date: 09/20/2017, Time: 025011, UserId: 00352241
Servo FW Rev: 7924
TCG IV Version: 30.05
Package BPN: 6300
RAP FW Implementation Key: 1E, Format Rev: 0206, Contents Rev: 1F 80 02 00
Active BFW Container: 0
4K Sys Area: 1
Features:
– IOEDC enabled
– IOECC enabled
– DERP enabled v. 6.0.00.0000000000000001
– LTTC-UDR2 disabled
– SuperParity 4.1 enabled
– Humidity Sensor disabled
– Media Cache Partition enabled
– Media Cache enabled
– Low Current Spin Up Normal
– Ready Sequence Optimization enabled
– Torn Write Protection enabled
– SubRelease:0
– Critical Event Log v. 1
– FAFH 40.11 disabled
– EWP:0
– DRAM Mirror:0

The Dolphin engineer helped to access the F3 T> and then backup the important SYS files/firmware modules.

Next the engineer cleared g-list, smart and regenerated translator. The engineer has checked the NGlist entries before and after the translator regeneration to make sure the translator regeneration generates positive result.

Next the engineer fixed the media cache issue.

Next the engineer opened the DFL-DDP data recovery equipment and set up one file extraction project, all lost data was perfectly recovered.

 

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This is one very interesting CCTV DVR format video data recovery case study for one DFL user from India. This case was given to other data recovery companies with other CCTV DVR data recovery software but failed.

With any other CCTV DVR data recovery software tools, the users can only get videos of only 2MB or the videos are in a mess with different cameras in one video, so no effective videos at all.

This kind of failure is usually caused by the original dvr device format and about 500mb data in the beginning of the dvr drive is lost and therefore, users cannot find any effective/valid videos.

When this case was given to Dolphin user with Dolphin DVR Pro, the user applied for one remote support by Dolphin remote data recovery system. Dolphin engineer helped the user to find the starting address of the data area by Dolphin DVR Pro. and then started the video analysis in fast analysis mode and finally all cameras and videos were found and listed properly.

Users can select the cameras and videos to save. and in the coming new Dolphin CCTV DVR data recovery software, Dolphin DVR Pro. can search the data address automatically when it is lost and then it is more convenient.

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HDD Platter Cleaning Workstation Pro. is one hardware-only equipment for data recovery purpose, it is specially designed to clean both 2.5 and 3.5-inch hard drive platters.

About the Torque Used by HDD Platter Cleaning Workstation Pro.

Compared with the HDD motor torque, HDD platter cleaning workstation Pro. Uses lower torque for platter cleaning purpose.

HDD motor can use higher torque because there’s flying height between heads and platters and it’s safe to spin the motor and get the heads to read and write properly. But for platter cleaning, it is totally different story:

When the platter surfaces are contaminated with dust, finger prints or other contamination, users must use lower torque cleaning toolkit and users cannot push hard to clean or never give too much pressure to the platter surface, any exceeded pressure on the surface contamination(dust or other particles) may cause scratches or permanent data loss. Dolphin engineers have tested a lot of motor torque options and then fixed one best working torque to spin the platter for platter cleaning purpose.

During the video instructions, users can see how our engineers are cleaning the platters properly with smart slight pressure by the cotton swab with or without absolute alcohol for the two types of cleaning cases.

HDD Platter Cleaning Workstation Pro. contains the following components:

1, Cleaning hardware workstation;
2, Platter fix nut for 2.5″ platter;
3, Platter fix nut for 3.5″ platter;
4, Power Supply AC Adapter.

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This data recovery case study is shared by one of our experienced, smart, friendly and kind users from Sri Lanka, his name is Dananjaya who offers very professional data recovery services in Sri Lanka.

HDD ID Information:
Patient drive: WD20EZAZ
PCB: 2060-810011

Reported symptoms
According to the drive owner, when he was copying wedding pictures to HDD, windows OS popup error massage called “not enough space”

HDD Repair and Recovery steps:

1.Once our user received the HDD, he checked. He found that when power on HDD, it spin up, but then two times’ clicking and power down. Like platter damage;
2.He tried to unlock, but same scenario. No modules showed, only power up, two clicks, power down;
3.So he guess it can be module damaged. But couldn’t power up. He used only pcb and disable module 02, module 411 and kernel mode. But same clicking;
4.He found a donor PCB with same microcode HDD. Then used patient PCB to donor for test, donor drive can be detected as normal;
5.He put donor to PAITENT HDD. Luckily the patient drive can be detected. But after 10 seconds, gave one click and went to busy status. Not responding;
6.He managed to power on and off till enter the inside of FW program;
7.He disabled module 02. After doing that HDD shows module and no clicking. But once enabling module 02, start clicking again. He had to disable again to get all modules;
8.He edited module 02 manually and write it SA. Fortunately no clicking, smoothly worked with HEX 00;
9.DFL repaired the corrupted module 190, he then wrote it to SA and load to RAM. “missing node function ” and “repair nodes function” which built in version 2.31 were used for this case;
10. Two partitions are displayed properly, the image speed is quite good, up to 150M per second.

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Equipment used in this data recovery case study:

DFL WD HDD Repair Equipment
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment

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How to recover lost data from WD SMR 800077 Carmel patient hard drives?
2060-800077-003 HDD Family: CARMEL

WD CARMEL HDD Failure Types:

SED lock and MCU lock;
Weak heads
Slow issue by firmware corruption;
All sectors 0;
Inaccessible data area;

Common Functions to be used to repair and recover lost data from WD SMR Carmel HDDs

HDD ROM chip pin reader to read/write ROM content;
MCU unlock ROM generation;
Disable 411;
Sector response time modification;
T2Data backup;
SMRzone backup;
190 backup, repair(Scan missing nodes, repair wrong nodes, delete overlapped nodes, etc ), write, ram loading(T2 auto loading);
Head map set up;
etc

WD CARMEL HDD Models:

WD60EDAZ-11BMZB0 2060-800077-003 REV P1
WD60EMAZ-51TKPB0 2060-800077-003 REV P1
WD60EZAZ-00ZGHB0 2060-800077-003 REV P2
WD60EFAX-68SHWN0 2060-800077-003 REV P1

WD20EZAZ-00GGJB0 2060-800077-003 REV P1

To repair and recover lost data from WD SMR Carmel hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:

HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment

WD SMR Carmel HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK

Helpful links:

WD 2060-800077 WD20EZAZ HDD Firmware Unlock PCB

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How to recover lost data from WD SMR 800065 800067 810003 Charger patient hard drives?

The WD SMR hard drives with PCB numbers 2060-800065, 2060-800067 and 2060-810003 belong to WD Charger family. Slow firmware issue, all sectors zero issue, HDD ID undetected issue, etc are the common hdd failures of the Charger family HDDs, the Charger family HDDs have both SED lock and MCU lock and the common models for these Charger families are as below:

2060-800067-001:

WD20SMZW-11JW8S0
WD20SMZW-11JW8S1
WD20SMZW-11YFCS0
WD20SMZW-34JW8S0
WD20SMZW-34JW8S1
WD20SMZW-59JW8S1
WD20SMZW-59YFCS0
WD20SMZW-59YFCS1
WD20SMRW-59YNDS0
WD20SDZW-11Z3CS0

WD20SDRW-11VUUS0
WD20SDRW-34VUUS0

WD15SMZW-11YFCS0
WD15SMRW-11YNDS0

2060-800065-002:

WD20SPZX-08UA7T0
WD20SPZX-11CRAT0
WD20SPZX-22CRAT0
WD20SPZX-21UA7T0
WD20SPZX-75UA7T1

2060-810003-001:

WD20SDZM-59TM5S1
WD20SMZM-59H3FS1

To repair and recover lost data from WD SMR Charger hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:

HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment

WD Charger 800065 800067 810003 HDD Head Replacement Tool

WD SMR Charger HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK

 

Helpful links:
2060-800067 Data Unlock SATA Connector
WD 2060-800065 HDD Firmware Unlock SATA PCB for WD USB PCB 2060-800067 and 810003
2060-810003 Data Unlock SATA Connector

 

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How to fix undetected WD SMR palmer hard drives? How to repair WD SMR palmer hdds with all sectors 0? How to get lost data from WD palmer 800066 800069 hard drives with slow firmware issue? How to unlock WD 2060-800066 and 2060-800069 SMR hard drive firmware area without special firmware unlock PCBs(MCU unlock easily on original PCB)?

The following are common models of WD SMR Palmer HDD models:

WD10SPZX-24Z10T1 2060-800066-006 P1
WD10SPZX-22Z10T0 2060-800066-004
WD10SPZX-24Z10T0 2060-800066-004
WD10SPZX-60Z10T0 2060-800066-006
WD10SMZW-11Y0TS0 2060-800069-001
WD10SMZW-59Y0TS0 2060-800069-001 REV P1

HTS541010BE610 2060-800066-004 Rev P1
WD5000LMZW-11Y0TS0 2060-800069-001

WD10SMZW-34Y0TS0 800069-001
WD10SDZW-11UMGS0 2060-800069-001
WD10SDZW-59UMGS0 2060-800069-001
WD10SDRW-11A0XS0 2060-800069-001
WD10SDRW-11A0XS1 2060-800069-003
WD10SDRW-34A0XS0 2060-800069-003 REV P1

WD10SMZM-59WKCS0 2060-800086-000 Type C

To repair and recover lost data from WD SMR palmer hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:

HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment

WD SMR Palmer HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK

Helpful links:
2060-800069 Data Unlock SATA Connector

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Dolphin Data Lab offers the best data recovery solutions to WD SMR HDDs of Spyglass and Spyglass2.

WD SMR HDDs have usually SED Lock, MCU lock issue, slow firmware issue, dynamic translator corruption issue(190 damage), etc. For old spyglass WD hdds, it is very easy to access to the firmware area, repair the damaged firmware modules and then recover the lost data.

To repair and recover lost data from WD Spyglass and Spyglass2 hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:

HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment

WD Spyglass and Spyglass2 HDD Models:

WD30NMVW-11C3NS4
WD30NMZW-11GX6S1
WD30NMRW-11YL9S4
WD40NMZW-11gx6s1
WD40ndzw-11mr8s1
WD40nmzw-59gx6s1
WD50NDZW-11MR8S1

WD Spyglass and Spyglass2 HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK

Helpful links:
2060-800041 Data Unlock SATA Connector
Compatible SATA PCB for 2060-800041 and 2060-810012

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This is one interesting Seagate ST500DM002 full hdd bad sectors firmware repair case study for one DFL user from India.

HDD Failure Symptoms:

A lot of errors of Starting LBA of RW Request ProcessRWError Read;
Full disk bad sectors, no data access

HDD Repair Tools and Data Recovery Tools used to fix this firmware corruption case study:

DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

Com terminal messages are as below:

Boot 0x10M

Spin Up[0x00000000][0x0000B67C][0x0000BA10]

Trans.

Rst 0x10M

MC Internal LPC Process

Spin Up

(P) SATA Reset

MediaPartition:

Host LBA Length Disc LBA Length Start Cyl Head

Media Partition 00000000 00997BD0 00000000 00132F7A 00000000 00000000

MC 00000000 00989F50 00000000 001313EA 00000000 00000000

MSP 00990850 00000A80 0013210A 00000150 000007F7 00000000

User Partition 00997BD0 00132F7A 00000802 00000000

MCMainPOR: Start:
Check MCMT Version: Current
MCMainPOR: Non-Init Case

MC Seg Disc and Cache Nodes: 060DBEBC 060DA1A8

Seg Write Preamble VBM start: 00000D3C end: 00000D63

Footer – start: 00000D65 end: 00000D8C

Seg Read Preamble VBM – start: 00000D8E end: 00000DB5

Footer – start: 00000DB7 end: 00000DDE

Reconstruction: MCMT Reconstruction Start

Max number of MC segments 22E0

Nonvolatile MCMT sequence number 028AFA00

[RSRS] 103D DiscLba 0008E15C RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

Starting LBA of RW Request=0008E15C Length=000004EC

ProcessRWError -Read- at LBA 0008E15C Sense Code=43110081

InitiateMarkPendingReallocateRequest for disc_lba: 0008E15C!

Reconstruction: EXCEPTION: Seg Read Fail: Status = 0000

Reconstruction: EXCEPTION: Error in Header

Reconstruction: EXCEPTION: Error in first Header disc sector
ReadFooters (Backwards): Segment 103D StartLBA 00470AE0 Starting Footer LBA 00470F18

SeqNum 028AFA01 DiscLba 0008E1E3 RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

Footer Status = 0001 DiscLba 0008E1DE RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

Footer Status = 0001 DiscLba 0008E161 RW_RTL FFFFFFFF

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Obtained: ID/Seq 44524352 00090028 0000174C 80990000

Copied Header 44524352 00090028

Continuing after error

Reconstruction: Completed 0: HeadPtr was unwritten

[MCMTWS]
MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCStateFlagsDisc = 00000001

MCMainPOR: MCTBufferPtr->Header.MCTStateFlags = 0000002A

MCMainPOR: MCStateFlags = 00000001

MCMainPOR: Feature Enabled…

MSP MainPOR:

MSP Init Metadata

Buf Bytes/VBM 00000208 DBA Base 06000000
Metadata size in bytes 0040

Num Segments 0054

Logical Sector Alignment 00000000

MSP Reconstruction

MSP Read ScratchPad Section 0000 DiscLBA 0013210A BlkSize 00000A80 Num Segments 00000054 DiscLba 0013210A RW_RTL 000F4240

Starting LBA of RW Request=0013210A Length=00000150

ProcessRWError -Read- at LBA 0013210A Sense Code=43110081
RTL exceeded

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

1, Enter DFL Seagate HDD Repair Tool, Wait until F3 T> is available;
2, Backup important SYS firmware modules such as NG-list, translator, primary defect list, etc;
3, Clear g-list, smart and regenerate translator;
4, Full disk bad sectors firmware problem is not fixed by above operations;
5, Fix media cache issue;
6, Fix NGlist failure issue by one click;
7, Clear g-list, regenerate translator;
8, Data Accessed;
9, Open DFL-DDP data recovery program;
10,All lost partitions, folders and files were listed and available for selective file extraction.

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