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Western Digital SMR Hard Drive Physical Data Recovery

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When Western Digital SMR hard drives suffer physical damage, such as head damage, platter surface scratch, surface contamination, motor stuck, parking ramp damage, etc, users get these WD SMR patient drives and we call these cases WD SMR physical data recovery cases.

Western Digital SMR Hard Drives Families:

Carmel
Charger
Spyglass II
Spyglass III
Palmer
Venicer
Etc…

Users can check the module list and see if the module 190 is available or not. If the module 190 is available, it is one WD smr drive.

After users get the physically damaged WD smr drives, users need to find one donor hdd for head swap, platter swap, platter cleaning, hdd inner parts cleaning, parking ramp swap, motor unstuck, etc. How to find one donor hdd for WD smr hard drives, find details here.

To recover lost data from WD SMR physically damaged hard drives, users can try the following important solutions：

1, Backup, edit and repair module 190;
2, Edit head map in RAM;
3, Set up head map in bitmap and image by selective heads;

Required head replacement tools, firmware repair tools and data recovery equipment:

DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment
Head and Platter Swap and Clean Suite
G2 HDD Head Comb Suite.Advanced

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Recover Lost Data from WD Hitachi Helium Hard Drives with UNC Common Firmware Failure

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Data recovery labs receive more and more data recovery cases to get lost data back from Western Digital Hitachi Helium hard drives. Among all of these Helium hdd data recovery cases, UNC firmware failure repair and recovery is very common case.

It’s not possible right now to fix the common firmware failure of UNC by the existing hdd repair and data recovery equipment in the market but from now on, Dolphin team have found one unique data recovery solution to fix the UNC common firmware failure and finally get the lost data back.

There’re many WD Hitachi helium hard drives of 8T,10T,12T,16T,etc. Users can connect these patient drives to desktop computer SATA ports and test the hdds by one software to see if they report UNC error. Users can also connect these helium patient drives to the existing hdd firmware repair hardware and see if they report UNC error.

After the UNC error is confirmed, users can use the special common fw repair solution to get the patient drives repaired and finally get the lost data back. Sometimes users may get ABR errors from the patient Helium hard drives but ABR error usually indicates the patient helium hdd head damage failure or other failures. If physical failure, users need to swap heads to continue the recovery process.

If you wish to recover lost data from Western Digital Hitachi Helium hard drives, feel free to email to [email protected] or add Dolphin Skype ID: dolphin.data.lab

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Merry Christmas to All Dolphin Users

At this Christmas Season, Dolphin team are sending all the best wishes to Dolphin users and their families. Merry Christmas!

Within 2023, Dolphin team have helped Dolphin users fix over 5300 data recovery cases by remote support and many Dolphin users have also fixed more cases by themselves!

Congratulations to All Dolphin Users for your data recovery success!

Dolphin team are adding more new data recovery solutions and latest DR techs to the existing data recovery tools and new software upgrade will be available soon in the user-only forum!

At this Christmas Season, Dolphin team wish all the best and greater success to all Dolphin users in the coming new year 2024!

You can tell us what data recovery tools, solutions you want and Dolphin team will prepare the best Christmas quote for you!

Find out all data recovery tools and solutions Dolphin team have here

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Would like a price quote on your data recovery hardware

“Greetings,

I would like a price quote on each of the tools below. My manager has a PayPal account, so if I get approval we would be using PayPal.

I see you have a recharge account for the DFL PCIe but I am interested in getting the unlimited version.

DFL PCIe unlimited version

DFL-SRP All-In-One USB3.0 Data Recovery Equipment”

This is one client from Canada who wishes to grow their data recovery capabilities by adding new data recovery equipment to their data recovery labs.

Either DFL-PCIe data recovery express or DFL SRP USB3.0 data recovery equipment has many latest data recovery solutions and technologies for fixing new data loss failures of new hard drives, the following are some example solutions:

01: Seagate Rosewood HDD head map editing in ROM;
02: Repair Seagate hdd with weak heads without head map;
03: Seagate rosewood hdd partial sector access auto repair solution;
04: Many one-click solutions for common Seagate hdd failures;
05: Western Digital new drive weak head repair solution;
06: WD SMR HDD 190 auto repair and expert repair;
07: WD SMR HDD 190 auto loading to RAM;
08: WD SMR HDD easy firmware unlock on original PCB;
09: New solution to fix WD SMR Slow HDDs;
10: Hitachi partial sector access auto repair;
11: Many more, etc…

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How to Detect and Delete Invalid Files or Corrupted Files Quickly

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In many data recovery cases, users will get many invalid or corrupted files in the recovered folders. It’s not good or not professional to send all these recovered folders to the final clients(PC users asking for data recovery).

When patient drives have many bad sectors or weak heads or scratched surfaces or when the patient drives have many fragmented files and common data recovery software cannot recover and restructure all fragmented files and the recovered files could not be opened normally, users will get many invalid or corrupted files within these cases.

Dolphin DR Assistant Pro. helps a lot to detect all invalid files or corrupted files quickly and delete them quickly.

Invalid files contain the following items:

01: Suffix contains tmp, tem, temp, Ink, etc;
02: Prefix contains ?, ~，etc;
03: File name contains ? ;
04: Detect and delete desktop.ini ;
05: Detect and delete thumbs.db

File extensions supported:

jpg
png
gif
cr2
dwg
bmp
dcm
psd
tif
tiff
nef
dng
cdr
ai
crw
raf
rtf
pdf
doc
xls
ppt
xlsx
docx
pptx
mdb
accdb
rar
zip
7z
mp3
wav
amr
mp4
mov
swf
asf
3gp
flv
avi

Invalid file sizes to set;
Set to delete empty folders;
Content or File Header contains DEADDEAD;

All corrupted files will be put to one special folder DEAD_DEAD_DEAD.
Data recovery engineers use this function-‘Detect and Delete Invalid Files’ very frequently for their data recovery success.

Steps to Detect and Delete Invalid Files:

01: Select Path to detect and delete invalid files;
02: Click ‘Check’ to detect invalid files;
03: Click ‘Delete’ to delete invalid files.

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New Client from Brazil August 2023

I’m writing to acquire some data recovery tools and clear up some doubts, are there any other service channels that work during business hours in Brazil?

DFL All-in-one Data Recovery Adapter Plus

DFL SATA to SAS Plus adapter

DFL software upgrade to a hardware

I would like to know if these items mentioned above work and have full compatibilities of DFL-DE, which is the tool I have?

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Data Recovery Solutions for Toshiba HDDs with Head Failure

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When users receive Toshiba hard drive data recovery cases of head failure, users need to diagnose the hdd head failure properly and use correct data recovery solutions.

Toshiba hdd failure symptoms:

Clicking noises;
Busy;
Working slowly;
Undetected/wrongly detected.

HDD Repair tools and data recovery tools required to fix Toshiba patient drives with head failure:

DFL-Toshiba HDD firmware repair tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment

Data Recovery Solutions required to fix Toshiba patient drives with head failure:

01: Toshiba HDD Heads read/write test;

02: Edit head map within SA area;
03: Set auto virtual translator within disk image settings for unstable Toshiba patient hard drives;
04: Set up head map for imaging good heads first and then image weak heads;
05: Swap heads by Toshiba hdd head replacement tools within clean room.

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SAS Hard Drive Data Recovery VS SATA Hard Drive Data Recovery

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SATA hard drive data recovery has been the most common data recovery cases within data recovery labs worldwide. SAS hard drive data recovery is not that common but it will be more competitive if users can offer SAS hard drive data recovery services.

SAS and SATA hard drives have different physical interfaces and firmware structures. Most available data recovery equipment in the market are for SATA hard drives and few are for SAS hard drive data recovery. Dolphin SAS to SATA adapter works with SATA data recovery equipment to image SAS hard drives or extract lost data from SAS hard drives.

Dolphin Data Lab has one good combination of data recovery equipment and adapters to recover lost data from SATA hard drives, SAS hard drives, SSDs, USB drives, etc.

DFL-SRP USB3.0 all-in-one data recovery equipment
DFL-URE Plus Portable data recovery equipment
Dolphin SAS to SATA adapter
Dolphin SATA to USB adapter

Please note: Firmware repair for SAS drives and USB flash drives is not supported for the moment.

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New Seagate Hard Drive Firmware Repair Videos and Data Recovery Videos free for DFL Users

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Dolphin Data Lab has created and released many new Seagate hard drive firmware repair videos and data recovery videos free for DFL users to download.

These videos are very helpful for users to understand the Seagate hard drive failures, firmware repair and data recovery solutions and users can use all DFL firmware repair tools and data recovery hardware tools more effectively and efficiently.

The following are the new videos added on Dolphin file share platform:

Data-Recovery-from-Head-Damaged-Seagate-Hard-Drives.7z
How-to-Fix-Seagate-ST5000DM000-Busy-HDD.7z
How-to-Fix-ST2000LM007-Slow-Firmware-Backup-and-Click-Problem.7z
How-to-get-the-head-map-of-Seagate-hard-drives.7z
How-to-Recover-lost-data-from-Seagate-ST4000DM004.7z
How-to-recover-lost-data-from-ST1000LM035-1RK172-Capacity-0-by-DFL-SRP-USB3.0-data-recovery-equipment.mp4.7z
How-to-Reset-Smart-Repair-Firmware-Corruption-For-ST4000NM0053.7z
How-to-Unlock-Seagate-Firmware-Area-Within-DFL-DDP-Data-Recovery-Program.7z
How-to-Work-with-Seagate-Patient-HDDs-for-Data-Recovery-At-High-speed.7z
Latest-Seagate-Hard-Drive-Firmware-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Solutions.7z
Seagate Constellation ES.3 SED HDD Firmware and Data Recovery Steps.mp4.7z
Seagate Rosewood HDD Head Map Editing in ROM by DFL-Seagate HDD Repair Tool.7z
SEAGATE ST4000VM004 ST4000VX005 B2 HDD LED 0X0BD SPIN UP AND DOWN HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps.7z
Seagate-External-Portable-Hard-Drive-ST1000LM038-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-LX-SSHD-Firmware-Unlock-Steps-by-DFL-Seagate-HDD-Repair-Tool.7z
Seagate-Portable-ST2000LM007-LED-HDD-Firmware-Repair-and-Data-Recovery.7z
Seagate-ROM-RAM-Loading-Slow-Fix.7z
Seagate-Rosewood-Portable-HDD-Partial-Sector-Repair-and-Recovery.7z
Seagate-SMR-Hard-Drive-Format-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-ST500LT012-Capacity-0-Head-0-Damaged-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-ST500LX025-SSHD-Firmware-Unlock-and-ROM-Backup-At-High-Speed.7z
Seagate-ST1000LM035-1RK172-LED-Undetected-HDD-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-ST1000LM035-Rosewood-AF-Capacity-0-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
Seagate-ST1500LM012-1R817G-HDD-Recovery Steps.7z
Seagate-ST2000LM007-HDD-Head-Damage-Diagnosis-Recovery.7z
Seagate-ST2000VX000-Error-HDD-Firmware-Backup.7z
ST1000LM035-1RK172-EB01-Capacity-0-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps-Case-Study-from-Indonesia-Data-Recovery-Engineer.7z
ST1000LM035-1RK172-FW-LVM1-Capacity 0-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST1000LM035-All-Sectors-0-HDD-Repair-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST1000LM035-Partial-Sector-Access-Auto-Repair.7z
ST1000LM048-2E7172-LED-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST1000VX005-2EZ102-HDD-Firmware-Repair-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST1500LM012-1R817G-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-Busy-Inaccess-Data-Area-HDD-Repair-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-Full-Disk-Red-Blocks-HDD-Repair-Data-Recovery.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-Janus-AF-Family-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-Seagate-Rosewood-Portable-HDD-Partial-Sector-Access-Data-Recovery.7z
ST2000LM007-1R8174-WDZCVF7K-Partial-Sector-Access-HDD-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST2000LM007-SP-Regen-FAIL-Update-Mask-Data-Recovery-Steps_.7z
ST5000DM000-1FK178-HDD-Firmware-Repair-and-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST5000LM000-2AN170-Hard-Drive-Firmware-Access-and-Repair.7z
ST8000DM004-2CX188-Busy-Undetected-HDD-Data-Recovery-Steps.7z
ST8000NM0105-Unlock-Video.7z
More data recovery videos are coming…
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Dolphin Labor Day Holiday Notice 2023

Dolphin Data Lab will be closed for International Labor Day Holiday from tomorrow, April 29th, 2023 until May 3rd, 2023. We will resume normal business hours on May 4th, 2023.

During the holiday period, we will continue to check and answer emails but orders delivery will be made after the holiday period. Remote technical support service will not be available during this time.

Dolphin Data Lab wishes all our customers a safe, happy, relax and unwind Labor Day holiday!

For more information about Dolphin Data Lab’s products and services, please visit our website at www.dolphindatalab.com.

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