ST1000VT001-1RE172 Seagate HDD Data Recovery Steps

This ST1000VT001-1RE172 is one firmware locked Seagate hard drive and it has firmware corruption and users cannot access to the data area. To recover lost data, users must firstly unlock firmware and then start the firmware repair process.

Patient HDD iD:

Model : ST1000VT001-1RE172
Serial : WL1H1MQ1
Frimware : SDC2
Capacity : 1953525168 (931.51GB)
Sector size : 4096
Heads number : 2
……………………………………….. FW info : Obtained
……………………………………….. FW version : RO08B6.SDC4.CC4683.SDC2
……………………………………….. FW pacakge P/N : 100824568
……………………………………….. FW ID : 00211320
……………………………………….. FW creation date : 2017/08/03
……………………………………….. FW creation time : 21:41:29
CFW version : RO08.SDC4.01307012.00211320
SFW1 version : 6B6A

CheopsLiteM.1.0.SATA.Rosewood.Mule.Servo376.Rap30.AP1.4K + SMR
Product FamilyId: A5, MemberId: 03

From the CTRL L terminal feedback, we know this patient HDD belongs to Rosewood A5 family, users need to backup ROM, generate unlock rom, write unlock ROM in LM mode.

Next users send unlock key to unlock the firmware area successfully and then users need to backup the important SYS files.

Next users go to clear media cache, clear-glist, confirm the nglist entries and then regenerate translator.

Finally all lost data was recovered by DFL-DDP data recovery equipment.

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