latest news about Dolphin data lab data recovery tools, data recovery training courses, data recovery solutions.

This Western Digital WD40NMZW-11GX6S1 patient drive had many bad sectors with not much data, to recover the lost data from it was easy with DFL-DDP data recovery tool.

When the user brought this 4TB patient drive to Dolphin data recovery lab, it’s said there’s only 400GB data stored inside the drive which is only 10 percent of the whole drive. Read more

This is one Seagate ST31000528AS hdd data recovery case study with partial sector access problem and it’s fixed perfectly by DFL Seagate firmware repair tool.

For Seagate F3 hard drives-non-LM familes, it is possible to fix the partial sector access problems by the DFL-Seagate Partial Access auto repair utility, but for this drive, it could take very long time, cause’ only 1% of the data area was accessible. Read more

Please be kindly informed that Dolphin Data Lab Headquarter will be closed for National Day holiday from Monday, 1 October to Sunday, 7th October. And re-open for business on Monday, 8th October 2018.

Here are some important notes about our work arrangement during this 7 day holiday. Read more

WD10JMVW-11AJGS2 hard drive data recovery cases are very common cases and for Dolphin users, it is also very easy to fix such kind of cases whether it’s physically damaged or firmware damaged.

Dolphin team wish to remind all users never treat physically damaged hard drives as firmware damaged hard drives, specially for new users, it is very important to protect clients’ valuable data. Read more

This is one interesting Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 data recovery case study fixed perfectly by DFL Seagate firmware repair tool and DFL DDP data recovery tool.

This case study was fixed by Dolphin remote system for one DFL user in India. Read more

There are more and more Seagate LM partial sector access data recovery cases coming to Dolphin users’ data recovery labs.

These Seagate LM partial sector recovery cases can be divided into two groups:

LM 1TB, 2heads,  LM 2TB,   4 heads;
LM 1TB, 3 heads, LM 1.5TB, 4 heads. Read more

Mid-Autumn Festival is coming around the corner. Please be kindly informed that our office will be closed from September 22 to September 24. We will resume regular business hours on Tuesday September 25.

During this 3 days holiday, email will be answered as normal. Read more

This is one easy and successful WD20NMVW-11EDZS6 hdd data recovery cases with weak heads and bad sectors. This case is from one Dolphin user in USA.

Patient HDD ID:

Model number: WD20NMVW-11EDZS6
SN: WX51A769N
2 platters / 4 heads
PCB: 2060-771961-001 REV A Read more

Seagate F3 HDDs

Seagate Mobile HDD
ST1000LM035; ST2000LM007;
ST1000LM037 (SED); ST2000LM009 (SED);
ST1000LM038 (SED (FIPS 140-2)); ST2000LM010 (SED (FIPS 140-2))

Seagate SATA 2.5″ LM Laptop HDD

ST3000LM016; ST4000LM016
Both: 5 platters, 10 heads

Seagate Barracuda DM:

ST3000DM001
ST2000DM001
ST1500DM003
ST1000DM003
ST750DM003
ST500DM002
ST320DM000
ST250DM000

Seagate Barracuda DM New:

ST8000DM004
ST6000DM003
ST4000DM004
ST3000DM007
ST2000DM005

Seagate Desktop HDD DM new 2:

ST5000DM000
ST4000DM001

Seagate enterprise hard drive:

ST10000NM0176, SATA
ST8000NM0045, 4Kn SATA
ST8000NM0055, 512e SATA
ST8000NM0065, 4Kn SAS
ST8000NM0075, 512e SAS
ST8000NM0085, 512e SAS
ST8000NM0095, 4Kn SAS
ST8000NM0105, 512e SATA
ST8000NM0115, 4Kn SATA
ST8000NM0125, 4Kn SAS
ST8000NM0135, 512e SAS
ST8000NM0145, 4Kn SATA
ST8000NM0155, 512e SATA
ST8000NM0165, 512e SATA

ST6000NM0095, 512e SAS
ST6000NM0105, 4Kn SAS
ST6000NM0115, 512e SATA
ST6000NM0125, 4Kn SATA
ST6000NM0175, 512e SATA
ST6000NM0185, 4Kn SATA
ST6000NM0195, 512e SAS
ST6000NM0205, 4Kn SAS
ST6000NM0235, 512n SATA
ST6000NM0245, 512n SAS
ST6000NM0255, 4Kn SAS
ST6000NM0265, 4Kn SATA
ST6000NM0275, 512e SATA
ST6000NM0285, 512e SAS

ST4000NM0025, 512n SAS
ST4000NM0035, 512n SATA
ST4000NM0045, 512n SATA
ST4000NM0055, 4Kn SATA
ST4000NM0065, 512n SAS
ST4000NM0075, 4Kn SAS
ST4000NM0085, 4Kn SATA
ST4000NM0095, 4Kn SAS
ST4000NM0105, 512n SATA
ST4000NM0115, 512e SATA
ST4000NM0125, 512e SAS
ST4000NM0135, 512n SAS
ST4000NM0225, 512e SATA
ST4000NM0235, 512e SAS
ST4000NM0245, 512e SATA
ST4000NM0255, 512e SAS

ST3000NM0005, 512n SATA
ST3000NM0015, 512n SATA
ST3000NM0025, 512n SAS
ST3000NM0035, 512n SAS
ST3000NM0045, 512n SAS
ST3000NM0055, 512n SATA

ST2000NM0045, 512n SAS
ST2000NM0055, 512n SATA
ST2000NM0065, 512n SATA
ST2000NM0085, 512n SAS
ST2000NM0105, 4Kn SATA
ST2000NM0115, 4Kn SAS
ST2000NM0125, 512e SATA
ST2000NM0135, 512e SAS

ST1000NM0045, 512n SAS
ST1000NM0055, 512n SATA
ST1000NM0065, 512n SATA
ST1000NM0075, 512n SAS

Seagate Laptop Thin HDD/formerly Momentus Thin SATA

ST500LT012
ST320LT012
ST250LT012

ST500LT034
ST320LT032
ST250LT028

ST500LT025 (SED)
ST320LT025 (SED)
ST250LT025 (SED)

ST500LT015 (SED (FIPS 140-2))
ST320LT015 (SED (FIPS 140-2))
ST250LT015 (SED (FIPS 140-2))

Barracuda 7200.11

ST31500341AS, 1.5T
ST31000333AS, 1T
ST31000340AS, 1T
ST3750330AS, 750G
ST3640323AS, 640G
ST3500320AS, 500G
ST3320613AS, 320G
ST3160813AS, 160G

Barracuda 7200.12

ST31000524AS, 1T
ST3750525AS, 750G
ST3500413AS, 500G
ST3320413AS, 320G
ST3250312AS, 250G
ST3160316AS, 160G

Seagate Video 3.5 HDD

ST3000VM002
ST2000VM003
ST1000VM002

Barracuda Green

ST2000DL003
ST1500DL003

SV35 Series
Surveillance-Optimized Storage

ST3000VX000
ST2000VX000
ST1000VX000

Seagate IronWolf

xxVNxx

Seagate IronWolf Pro

xxNExx

Nytro SSD SAS

xxFMxx
xxSExx

Nytro SSD SATA

xxMExx
XF1230-xxxx

Nytro SSD PCIe/NVMe

XPxxxx

Notes:

SED=Self-Encrypting Drive
FIPS=Federal Information Processing Standard
TCG=The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an organization sponsored and operated by companies in the computer, storage and digital communications industry. Seagate’s SED models comply with the standards published by the TCG. Sometimes in the COM terminal, we may see TCG serial port disabled.

This is one very interesting western digital hdd data recovery case, the patient hard drive was not detected and capacity was 0, but finally all data was perfectly recovered by DFL WD firmware repair tool and DFL DDP data recovery tool.

Patient HDD ID: WD3200BEKT-60V5T1
Family: Saturn
2 platters / 4 heads Read more