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Dolphin engineers have been working hard to make all our data recovery tools and firmware repair tools more and more powerful and we are releasing frequent upgrades to these tools for clients’ bigger success with us.

Now Dolphin Data Lab is releasing the version 1.42 of DFL-FRP for Seagate, users can work on two Seagate drives including the latest 7200.14 DM series to repair the firmware failures, repair bad sectors and remove passwords. Read more

With DFL-WDII hdd repair tool, users can repair the bad sectors caused by bad heads, it’s easy to find out the damaged heads and cut the damaged heads so that the patient hdds can work again.

The following case study is to tell how to find out the bad heads and cut them.

Scan the hdd and users can find the intensive bad sectors;

Write Down the LBA value of the bad sectors, the starting LBA and ending LBA of the bad sectors;

Go to Menu Common–>CHS LBA Translate; Read more

To repair hard drive bad sectors, it requires the users to diagnose the hard drives first to find out what are the real causes of the bad sectors you are going to repair.

Bad Sector Types And Repair Solutions

  1. Bad sector type 1: logical bad sectors due to some logical errors and not many sectors, users can scan and add to plist or glist or merge from glist to plist;Then format with plist.
  2. Bad sector type 2: due to bad or downgraded head and the read is not stable, at this time, users need to cut heads and then perform format with plist;
  3. Bad sector type 3: If the bad sectors are caused by adaptive parameters, users can run ARCO 46 and then format with plist;
  4. Bad sector type 4: if it’s a small physical sctatch, users can use add to p-list by LBA or cut zones and then run format with plist.
  5. Bad sector type 5: if it’s due to dirty heads, usually clients need to do this way by cleaning the heads.
  6. Bad sector type 6: if there’re too many bad and irregular sectors, need to run arco optimize and 28 selftest. Read more

DFL-WDII hdd repair tool is one advanced firmware repair and password removal tool for Western digital hard drives. It can be used for either hdd repair and data recovery purpose and therefore it’s very important and necessary for clients to learn how to analyze the hdd failures and what functions to select to use with the hdd for desired purposes.

This article is to discuss the bad sector repair options DFL-WDII has offered to its users for a higher success rate of hdd repair or data recovery. Read more