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ST6000DM003 HDD Data Recovery

This is one Seagate undetected ST6000DM003 hdd data recovery case study for one Dolphin user in Brazil.

Patient hdd ID:
Model number-ST6000DM003-2CY186

Failure Symptoms:
Undetected
Data area is not accessed

HDD Repair Tools and Data Recovery Tools used:
DFL-Seagate HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

01: Connect patient hdd to DFL seagate firmware repair hardware and enter the Seagate HDD firmware repair software;
02: Backup the rom, generate unlock rom, write unlock rom, power off and on, send unlock key;
03: Backup important SYS files;
04: Fix the media cache issue;
05: Clear glist, smart and regenerate translator;
06: Enter DFL-DDP data recovery software to list all the lost partitions and folders to recover directly.

December 19, 2024/0 Comments/by Stanley Morgan

WD10TMVW-11ZSMS5 ROM Lost Data Recovery Steps

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This is one second-hand WD HDD data recovery case from one Indian Dolphin user. The patient HDD was operated by one non-Dolphin data recovery service supplier but failed and then the patient hdd owner brought the hdd to our Dolphin user in India.

Patient HDD ID

WD10TMVW-11ZSMS5
Family: Helios
PCB: 1814

Failure Symptoms:
original rom lost/corrupted
HDD was not detected

HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

01: Found donor firmware modules and rom with very close or same microcode;
02: Connect patient HDD and enter DFL-WD firmware repair software;
03: Write donor ROM, power off and on;
04: Load ATA auto from donor firmware directory;
05: Backup original firmware modules;
06: Load module dir and load dir to ram;
07: Write donor modules, firmware restart and enter software;
08: Write original data modules, power off and on;
09: Enter DFL-DDP data recovery software to extract lost data easily.

Any question is welcome to sales[at]dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

December 11, 2024/0 Comments/by Stanley Morgan

For a Better SSD Data Recovery Success Rate

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In some ssd data recovery cases or flash drive data recovery cases, the chips may get downgraded and the drives become very slow, running with many bad sectors and sometimes even not detected. After users heat the chips properly with suitable working temperature, the patient SSDs or flash drives can become faster or even detected and impossible cases become possible!

Flash Heating Power Supply Pro. is available worldwide by DHL, EMS, Fedex, etc and it is specially designed for a higher success rate of SSD data recovery and other flash drive data recovery.

Flash Heating Power Supply Pro. is to increase the working temperature of SSD and other flash drives by heating the chips on the flash drives with one adjustable switch knob. With the knob, users can adjust the voltages to control the working temperatures.

Normal voltages: 19v-24v
Normal temperatures: 60℃-100℃

November 21, 2024/0 Comments/by Stanley Morgan

ST2000LM007 LED HDD Repair and Data Recovery Tools

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The patient HDD-Seagate Rosewood ST2000LM007 has suffered severe LED error in the COM terminal, users cannot enter F3 T> and cannot continue the hdd firmware repair and data recovery.

To fix the LED error, there’s one very helpful rom function-‘Disable Subsystem’.
Function path: DFL Seagate HDD repair tool>ROM Operations>ROM Edit>Disable Subsystem

Before using the function, users need to import the unlock ROMO, After using the function, users can save the new rom and write the new ROM, power off and on, users can easily enter F3 T>

Next users can backup the important firmware modules and start the firmware repair. There’re many one click quick solutions available under the Common Menu.

After the firmware repair, users can use DFL-DDP data recovery software to extract lost data easily.

November 18, 2024/0 Comments/by Stanley Morgan

WD10SPZX-22Z10T1 Spin up and Down Data Recovery

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This is one successful Western Digital hard drive data recovery case study from one DFL user in Peru.

The patient HDD ID:
Model number: WD10SPZX-22Z10T1
PCB number: 800066
Capacity: 1TB

Failure Symptom:
HDD got error state when read modules;
Power Restart constantly

Hdd repair tool and data recovery tools used in this case study:
DFL-WD hdd repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

HDD repair and data recovery steps:

01: Lock UA writing, disable 411;
02: Firmware restart and re-enter the software;
03: Backup module 190 by ABA(select valid data of 190);
04: Clear module 190 manually, generate checksum, check module and write;
05: Enable 411;
06: Firmware restart;
07: Enter DFL-DDP data recovery software, repair module 190 auto, got repaired T2data;
08: Load T2data in RAM, and data sectors were recovered.

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

November 15, 2024/0 Comments/by Stanley Morgan

DFL All-in-one Data Recovery Software V20241018

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Dolphin Data Lab has released new software upgrade for DFL data recovery tools and it’s V2.401-20241018.

What’s new in this version-20241018?

01: Quick access to existing task is added;
02: Head map list with detailed head sections are added, users can easily select or cancel any sectors for the best imaging result;
03: New Seagate hdd firmware unlock is added;
04: Software interface is further improved;
05: New WD SMR HDD MCU unlock is added;
06…etc

Download new Data recovery software here.

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

November 3, 2024/0 Comments/by Stanley Morgan

ST2000LM007 FAIL Servo Op=000E Resp=000B LED Data Recovery Steps

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Watch the video here on how to recover the lost data from Rosewood A5 ST2000LM007 with the following error messages in the COM terminal.

Boot 0x80M
QB
Rst 0x80M

T:0x0002 0x4A901760
Srv DETCR init 0x0000

FTU

(P) SATA Reset

RAW OFF

PASS
(DOS Table) Worst Count: 00000000 At SU: FFFFFFFF NT: 00000000 OT: 00000000
RECOV Servo Op=0195 Resp=0005

FAIL Servo Op=06DF Resp=0007

06DF 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
ResponseFrame 0003 0001 0000 4507 0008 0000 0000 0000 0C44 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1C14 0C24 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 FFFF Loop=2247

DSC FAIL
FAIL Servo Op=000E Resp=000B

000E 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
ResponseFrame 7F6C 0000 7F6C 0000 7F6E 0000 7F6E 0000 7F6E 0000 7F6D 0000 7F6D 0000 7F6C 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

Starting LBA of RW Request=00094BDD8F Length=00001C77

ProcessRWError -Read- at LBA 00094BE9C2 Sense Code=43110081
FAIL Servo Op=000E Resp=000B

000E 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
ResponseFrame 0000 0001 0000 42EB 7F6E 0000 7F6E 0000 7F6E 0000 7F6D 0000 7F6D 0000 1C14 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 FFFF
FAIL Servo Op=000E Resp=000B

000E 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
ResponseFrame 0000 0001 0000 42EB 7F6E 0000 7F6E 0000 7F6E 0000 7F6D 0000 7F6D 0000 1C14 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 FFFF
ProcessRecoveryComp-2

ERC TO exceeded, orig value in us:FFFFFFFF
MS Read Fails: 4A5EEC78,0000E3B8
RECOV Servo Op=01A5 Resp=0005

Xor this IOEDC Syndrome with Host LBA to find actual sector written = 00007580
FAIL Servo Op=06DF Resp=0007

06DF 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
ResponseFrame 0000 0008 0000 38F8 0272 0000 0273 0000 0374 0000 0274 0000 0273 0000 1FF2 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 FFFF Loop=2247

DSC FAIL
FAIL Servo Op=01A5 Resp=0007

01A5 FDE4 0001 7FFF 7FFF 7FFF 0017 102E 4F53 0000 8000 5300 FFFF 02E0 0000 0000 0000 02BC 2871 0000 0000 9900 419B A037 0000 7008 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
ResponseFrame 0010 0010 0000 ED61 7F71 0000 7F71 0000 7F72 0000 7F72 0000 7F72 0000 1FF2 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 FFFF Loop=2247

FAIL Servo Op=06DF Resp=0007

06DF 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
ResponseFrame 000F B200 F8A4 0126 EE00 0A10 F501 6094 EEB8 0AC0 F708 FE26 F604 01BC F201 40AC F708 FE20 F504 6380 EDD3 0A2A ED93 1A2B EEB4 0AE0 EEF1 FA10 BFC8 EEB0 0000 0000 0000

DSC FAIL
RECOV Servo Op=01A5 Resp=0005

Search IOEDC Index = 00012740 Index Offset = 00000000

VBMIndex With IOEDC Error =00012740
Uint32 Offset= FFFFFFFF Bit Mask= EEEEEEEE
HostLBA = 000000004A5EEC78

Previous VBM Index = 0002173F

929C1A24 6DCE856D D24C936F 3BDCFC44 CF672598 C1EA773F F819B7C5 6FF9EE16

F5304876 358761C9 EE2ADAA3 C392D8A0 9BCD6CCC 69A0539B 94E40179 374FD572

819E93AA DD5D4C25 BAB125D7 6B68C71C B7ABB600 31763EF7 A34248AD DF05B1AE

5C64DADE 65132881 491F6F0B 333EA278 423601B4 D8CC2553 7F2893E1 66DB9C0A

68C32412 0CE917FD 65E5B6BF DAF48ED4 1E9C48E8 6082018F 0BB6DD15 0E907B66

04A96F46 D4BFF259 304001F3 624D7530 2D7A921C 0858ECEB 261D2449 D66667C2

D337B6FA 7C75DEB4 CC2E4B27 0A03506F F9C0DD50 D02ECB46 F2FB6FFD 7E3C4239

EF92002E 07CBC510 98B4925B ADD93CCB 95AF2484 7BE4B7A2 8141B931 01F22E95

BA784B62 AF81A04C B712DD8F 75AF1B27 A0356E38 03BA921E 5D2C0065 A94815F1

56C69296 77578CA8 43F924C3 1D650783 7C93B96C AB73797A 698A4B99 711EF02D

62ACDDCA 1F2C6B04 1E476E77 A53BE2FF 0B7E00A0 72C965D6 041092CD 18D4DC89

310B277E A6E25660 2A2DB9AB 4CF1C95B 27C44BD4 1A9F4032 D0FEDC01 A0AABBE4

CD916EB2 4EB832DF C68800DF 1447B5B6 F3A29508 A2552F69 EF4527B5 4860A640

987FB9E6 160E193B 95164A13 BC1D9012 8E08DCBC 4A2B0BC5 BB236EE9 103682BC

B4DA031A B9C40597 A1FC9547 47D27F4E 5A9727F0 EDE1F621 5789B81D BB8F6918

40A04A4E 419AE0F3 7C5ADCFB EFA85BAA 697D7124 B5B7D29D 62140351 43455474

621436F1 43455474 5BE52704 00000000

VBM Index IOECC Error =00012740