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New WD HDD ROM Regeneration-PCB1640 1698 Or Newer Series

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Dolphin Data Lab has released one article before on how to regenerate ROM for WD PCB1640, 1692, 1698, or 17XX or 18xx series and now Dolphin Data Lab released the latest version 2.5x(latest-2.53), with this version, users need to use different methods to make the ROM regeneration more successful, especially for the new WD hard drives. Read more

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Innovative Firmware Repair Function-Loading Module Dir To RAM

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Dolphin Data Lab has recently released one innovative useful firmware repair function-loading module DIR to RAM. With this function, it’s much easier and faster for users to read and write modules by ID.

This article will demonstrate how to use it for powerful operations on writing common fw and ROM and fix damaged hard drives.

Users can also watch the video introduction here on this new data recovery technology. Read more

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How To Clear Password Of New WD ROYL Series

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With the latest version of  DFL-WDII or DFL-FRP WD module, users can easily unlock the new WD password protected hard drives. The new hard drives are a little different from the old WD ROYL and L series and the algorithm changes and therefore we have upgraded our algorithm to remove the password automatically by simple clicks. Read more

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How To Run WD HDD Selective Head Image

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This article is to show the whole process of selective head image on Western Digital USB hard drives.

HDD ID:

Model: WDC WD10JMVW-11AJGS0
Capacity: 1TB
Microcode:0006000M Read more

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Fixing 2.5″ WD800UE IDE scorpio PCB 1281-002 Rev A

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Case HDD ID: 2.5″ WD800UE IDE (scorpio) PCB 20-60 1281-002 Rev A (2 Platter / 4 heads).

The heads are changed (But donar is one year older and have PCB 20-60 1281-001 Rev A),  after start the hdd spin up and clicks 5 times and spin down, force loading is .

I see …
WDC-ROM SN XYZ / MicroCode 1051
Firmware 09.07 D09 Capacity: 18 GB. What can i do ?, what is the right jumper set for safe mode by 2.5″ IDE ? Read more

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WD 500GB WD5000AAKS Perfect Data Recovery Process

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This is one case study shared by one client and he recovered the data perfectly.

“I have a WD 500GB WD5000AAKS that a customer brought and the PCB was barely working. I was able to plug it into DFL-WDII and could only back up the modules I attached to this email before the drive died completely and would not spin up again, but both diodes checked out fine. (I believe the family was Tahoe). Read more

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USB Hard Drive Data Recovery Review

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USB hard drive data recovery cases are often taking more time to complete, especially USB3.0 hard drives which have their data encrypted by its interface(SATA-USB) firmware chip.

So far in the data recovery market, not one professional data recovery equipment is able to connect the damaged USB hard drives directly except using some kind of adapters. However, these adapters are usually simply designed and cannot at all properly control the operations and issue commands to repair and recover data from the USB hard drives. Read more

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DFL-DDP Removes HDD Password And Recover Data From Bad Sectors

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DFL-DDP usb3.0 data recovery equipment has become the most popular data recovery equipment for more and more serious data recovery companies. Recently many big data recovery companies have purchased this equipment for all their data recovery labs, they are purchasing 4 DDPs, 7DDPs and even 10 DDPs to use with their competitive data recovery services, they are taking advantages of the unique powers DDP brings to them-the highest speed and the innovative data recovery solutions. Read more

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Fix WD20EARS full of !!!! by MHDD

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WD20EARS full of !!!! by MHDD
Scan the hdd by MHDD and it’s full of !!! and it seems there’re bad sectors in the SA, how to recover the data? Any ideas are welcome and appreciated.

This is usually caused by a single head damage, you can consider use head map editing in RAM or perform hot swap to extract all the possible data, if you need all data, you may need to swap the heads.

If the hard drive is detected, you can use selective head image of DFL-DE or DFL-DDP;
if the hdd is not detected, you can manage to read the tracks and write the tracks to one donor hdd and then do hot swap;
if the tracks couldn’t be read, the last option is to swap the heads. Read more

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WD USB Hard Drives Look Inside And USB HDD Data Recovery Tips

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Within our data recovery lab, we have received many WD USB hard drives and they are mainly Western Digital 2.5″ My Passport Portable Hard Drive and 3.5″ My Book Essential External Hard Drives.

For WD USB hard drives, they adopt one hardware encryption technology by the USB controller chip and the algorithm of this technology make all data written through the USB ports become encrypted,whether you set password or not.

Within our data recovery cases, engineers meet often the failures of USB hard drives:

Power on the hdd, it spins up without clicking, but the USB port couldnot be detected or the capacity couldn’t be recognized and this is mainly caused by firmware failure and at this time, the hdd has slow response, slow detection, busy, etc. Read more

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