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This is one hdd repair and data recovery case for one DFL user from Japan.

When this patient WD HDD-WD2500JS-40TGB0 was received, the HDD was busy and undetected and it’s not possible to access to the data area. Read more

This is one Hitachi HCC543232A7A380 DVR HDD from one DFL user in Germany.

The user is trying to use DFL Hitachi HDD firmware repair tool to remove the DVR lock and access to the hdd SA area and data area. With DVR password in this hard drive, the user couldn’t even read rom and nvram and couldn’t read firmware modules too. Read more

When we are doing our data recovery jobs, data recovery engineers may meet many Seagate HDD data recovery cases of the following models: ST1000DM003-1CH162 and ST1000DM003-1SB102.

What are the differences between these two models? Read more

This is one remote data recovery case from one DFL user in India and this is one failed data recovery case but it is important for users to get some good experience from it.

Patient HDD ID:
ST1000DM003-1CH162
SN number: Z1DC7H7C
Firmware version: CC47 Read more

This is one WD DVR HDD from one Germany DFL user.
The user wishes to remove the DVR password, get the lost data back and use the HDD again.

Patient HDD ID:
Model number: WDC WD3200BUCT-63TWBY0
SN Number: WD-WX11A15A0TU0 Read more

This is one successful Western Digital HDD data recovery case study from one DFL user in India.

When the patient HDD was received, the HDD PCB was totally burnt, the ROM chip was corrupted and the original ROM content was not possible to read. Read more

How to recover lost data from Toshiba MQ01ABD032VS DVR locked HDD?
How to remove the DVR lock for Toshiba MQ01ABD032VS HDDs from Set-Top Boxes?

Patient HDD ID

TOSHIBA MQ01ABD032VS
Firmware version: AZ0U1Q
625142448 (298.09GB) Read more

This is one Hitachi patient HDD data recovery case study from one DFL user in Colombia.

HDD ID: Hitachi HDS721050CLA662
Capacity: 500GB

When this hdd was received, the drive was not detected and no data was available for data recovery. Read more

This is one Western Digital HDD data recovery case study from one DFL user in India.

When this patient HDD was connected to DFL-SRP WD hdd repair tool, the patient HDD could be slowly ready, but had error of 0A 0B read failure and all firmware modules read failure. Read more

Hi Stanley, the drive is failing to read after around 2% of the drive. All sectors red colour. Starting LBA of RW Request=00007DE280 Length=FFFFFFFF

ProcessRWError -Read- at LBA 00007DE280 Sense Code=44090082
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