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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

Seagate ST2000lm015-2E8174 data recovery is very similar like other Seagate LM hard drives such as ST1000LM035, ST2000LM007.

All these Seagate LM hard drives are SA locked, no COM terminal available to diagnose and repair with commands directly and therefore, to recover lost data from these drives, the very first thing to do is to unlock the COM terminal. Read more

Toshiba MK5065GSXF Data Recovery is not one difficult data recovery case study for one DFL user in Uganda.

When this patient drive was connected to drive, the user powered on the patient drive and the drive could be ready but very slow to be ready. Read more

Dolphin engineer helped another DFL user in India to fix the damaged firmware modules and get lost data back from one Western Digital WD20PURX-64P6ZY0 hard drive.

HDD Model number: WD20PURX-64P6ZY0
PCB number: 2060-771945-001 Read more

This is another successful data recovery case study on Seagate ST1000LM035-1RK172 mobile hard drives with full of bad sectors and then partial sector access firmware corruption.

When the DFL user in USA connected this patient firmware corrupted hard drive to DFL-SRP firmware repair hardware, the drive was detected properly but when trying to access the data area, all sectors were blocked and full of bad sectors. Read more

This is another successful remote data recovery case study from patient western digital hard drives with bad sectors in service area.

When the patient drive was connected to pc, it is not detected at all but when it’s connected to DFL-SRP wd firmware repair hardware, it’s detected but capacity was 0 and spun down after spinning up for seconds. Read more

There are more and more partial sector access for Seagate Mobile LM hard drives such as the LM007, LM012, LM035, etc. There’re different types of partial sector access types.

This is one successful ST2000LM007 Partial Sector Access Data Recovery case study. Dolphin engineer has helped one DFL user in USA recover 100% data from this patient drive. Read more

This is one successful remote data recovery case study for one DFL user in USA.

According to the user’s report, the patient drive could be properly detected and was able to enter F3 T> but when he tried to image the hard drive, he could only image 70% around of the drive and the last 30% of data was blocked. If the user tried to scan the bad sectors, full of bad sectors was found. Read more

This is one physical western digial head swap data recovery case.

When the case was received, users request Dolphin data recovery engineers to check remotely. By entering safe mode of the hard drive, the engineer could backup the ROM and run SA Bypassing function. Read more

For WD hard drives which is undetected and capacity 0, it is not easy for common data recovery companies without professional firmware repair tools or it is impossible case for data recovery software solutions.

When the patient drive was powered on, the drive had no physical damage symptoms but when trying to detect the hard drive ID information, it failed and the hard drive model, SN, firmware version and SPT were not available and the capacity was 0. Read more