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Warning to Recover Data from New Seagate C6 C8 Drives

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To recover lost data from new Seagate C6 C8 hard drives becomes more and more challenging, specially when the patient drives have PCB or ROM failure.

These C6 C8 drives have double rom chips and the main chip is locked and closely connected to the firmware security and the main chip and rom chip may work together to affect the hdd recognition and even physical heads’ r/w capabilities.

For the Seagate C6 C8 drives, users just need to read one of the two ROM chips, generate unlock ROM and then write unlock ROM. One rom chip contains valid hex data, the other rom chip contains encrypted hex data and is not used.

For the Seagate C6 C8 drives, if the PCB is damaged, it’s very difficult to fix it by simple PCB swap. Many users have tried to swap PCB to fix cases, but most users failed and wasted many donor PCBs and even destroyed the heads.

For the Seagate C6 C8 drives, users can read rom by the following two methods:

01: Read/write rom by programmer, users may need to solder the rom chips off and read and write;
02: Read/write rom by rom chip adapter without soldering rom chips off;

Chip-on HDD Flash Programmer Smart

All-in-one ROM Chip Adapter Smart
HDD Mini ROM Chip Reader Pro. Suite

Seagate PCB100871827 Mini ROM Chips Adapter Smart

Common Models of C6 C8 Drives

ST4000NM000B
ST4000NM024B
ST8000NM017B
ST12000NM001J
ST16000NM000J
ST20000NM001J

 

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ST5000DM000-1FK178 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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This is one successful Seagate ST5000DM000-1FK178 HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery case study from one user in Mexico.

Patient HDD symptoms:

01: Very unstable and keep reporting LBA read error;
02: Full disk bad sectors;

Patient HDD ID:

Model number-ST5000DM000-1FK178
FW: CC49

HDD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery Steps:

01: Backup patient HDD rom;
02: Generate unlock rom;
03: Write unlock rom, power off and on, send unlock key;
04: Backup important SYS35(NGlist);
05: Clear glist, view NGlist entries;
06: Regenerate translator;
07: Fix media cache and vacant actitive;
08: Power off and on and enter DFL-DDP data recovery software;
09: All lost partitions and folders are listed for immediate data recovery.

HDD Repair Tools and Data Recovery Tools Used:

DFL-Seagate hdd repair tool;
DFL-DDP data recovery tool

More powerful data recovery tools here.

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Purchase 1 set of Dolphin hdd repair and recovery tool

“hi sales team

I would like to purchase 1 set;

Dolphin Hard Drive Repair & Recovery Tool

DFL PCIe for firmware repair or DFL SRP USB3.0 for firmware repair
DFL PCIe WD Auto Repair Tool
Offline SF Strip
Can you please let me know how to make payment and delivery. is there a wechat i can reach out to complete the transaction. Please reply to this email with your WeChat QRcode.

Thank you”

>To refurbish hard drives, the combination of above tools is a good choice.

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DFL-SRP USB3.0 All-in-one Data Recovery Equipment Users Worldwide

Here’s a growing list of DFL-SRP USB3.0 All-in-one Data Recovery Equipment users worldwide and users with this tool are able to offer the following data recovery services:

* Formatted/deleted file recovery;
* Slow hdd/usb flash drive data recovery;
* Bad sector hdd/usb flash drive data recovery;
* Slow/Formatted/deleted SATA and NVME SSD data recovery;
* HDD password removal;
* Weak-head hdd data recovery;
* Firmware corrupted undetected/wrongly detected hdd data recovery;
* PCB/ROM repair;
* Smart reset

If pc or portable drive users have the similar cases above, users can send the cases to Dolphin users worldwide to get the lost data back. Besides DFL-SRP USB3.0 All-in-one Data Recovery Equipment, most Dolphin users have other Dolphin data recovery tools such as hdd head and platter swap tools, CCTV/DVR data recovery tools, advanced data recovery training courses, etc. This means most Dolphin users are able to offer complete and professional data recovery services.

 

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Save Big October on Dolphin Data Recovery Tools

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October is one special month due to the National day holiday here, after the 8 days’ holiday, Dolphin team continues the best data recovery solutions, technique support and services to data recovery engineers worldwide.

Thanks to the new and old customers’ support and love, Dolphin team have prepared the following big promotion for all:

01: Buy hdd head and platter swap tools, get hdd head donor requirement e-book for free;
02: Buy G2 HDD Head Comb Suite.Advanced, get hdd head donor requirement e-book for free;
03: Buy WD PCB 8X00XX USB-SATA Adapter Smart Package Pro. with direct discount;
04: Buy HDD ROM Programming Clip Adapters with direct discount;
05: Buy WD USB-SATA and Firmware Unlock PCB Package with direct discount;
06: Buy HDD SAS to SATA data recovery adapter with big promotion.

Users can also order Dolphin major data recovery tools below to start a data recovery business or set up a new data recovery lab:

01: DFL-SRP USB3.0 all-in-one Data Recovery Equipment or DFL PCIe Data Recovery Hardware Tool;
02: DFL-URE Plus Data Recovery Equipment;
03: DFL USB3.0 all in one data recovery adapter;
04: Surface Pro data drive data recovery adapter;
05: Apple SSD data recovery adapter;
06: Dolphin DVR recovery software.

Users can email to sales[at]dolphindatalab.com or add teams ID with the same email to get more details on this special offer.

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WD SMR Drive Selective Head Image Steps

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For many WD SMR patient drives, the weak heads or bad sectors data recovery cases are very common and selective head image is very necessary and used a lot.

To run selective head image for WD SMR drives, users can follow the steps below:

01: Unlock the SA by writing unlock rom or swap the original PCB with firmware unlock PCB;
02: Disable 411 in kernel mode and restart firmware;
03: Backup T2Data and module 190;
04: Set up disk image task, select Head Map and select 190 or T2 data to set up head map;
05: After head map is set up, users can select good heads to image first and then weak heads.

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WD SMR Drive Module 190 Backup Tips

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To recover lost data from Western Digital SMR hard drives, one of the most important steps is to backup the module 190 successfully.

For WD SMR drives’ data recovery cases, it is very common the module 190 backup may fail due to its large size, bad sectors or weak heads, etc. At this situation, users can follow the instructions below to increase the success rate of module 190 backup. Besides, users need to be very careful of the right steps to backup module 190.

WD SMR drives have MCU lock, users need to remove the MCU lock by the following methods:

01: Remove MCU lock by writing unlock ROM;
02: Remove MCU lock by firmware unlock PCB.

WD SMR Drives Module 190 Backup Steps:

01: Remove MCU lock;
02: Enter DFL-WD firmware repair software and disable 411;
03: Re-enter the WD software and backup the module 190 and other important firmware modules; When users are reading the module 190, users have the following modes to read the module 190 successfully:

Mode 1: Read 190 of copy 0 by ABA fully;
Mode 2: Read 190 of copy 1 by ABA fully;
Mode 3: Read 190 valid data only of copy 0 by ABA fully;
Mode 4: Read 190 valid data only of copy 1 by ABA fully;
Mode 5: Read 190 fully by ID;
Mode 6: Read 190 valid data only by ID.

Users can select different modes to read the module 190 successfully according to the hard drive diagnosis. If users have deleted or formatted data data to recover, it’s better to backup the 190 fully. But if there’re read errors during reading 190, users can try valid data only backup.

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WD SMR Formatted HDD 1.5T Data Recovered From 0.03GB Patient HDD by Module 190 Auto Repair

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To recover lost data from WD SMR formatted HDD, the PC users need to stop the power immediately and stop working on it any further, specially stop writing any new data on the formatted hdd. As for data recovery engineers, they need to bypass the firmware read(disable 411) firstly, backup the important firmware modules, specially the module 190.

HDD Firmware Repair Tools and Data Recovery Tools Required To recover lost data from formatted WD SMR HDDs:

DFL-WD HDD Firmware Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment

Steps to recover lost data from WD SMR Formatted HDD:

01: MCU unlock by writing unlock ROM with HDD ROM chip pin reader or swap with firmware unlock PCB;
02: Enter secured firmware operations mode to avoid the dynamic translator corruption;
03: Backup the dynamic translator module 190 and repair 190 automatically to get a good copy of T2Data;
04: Accelerate the firmware loading process;
05: Test firmware modules and repair found corrupted modules;
06: Load T2Data to RAM(Auto mode) to access the data area fully.

The following are some example videos or related videos to recover lost data from WD SMR formatted HDDs:

WD SMR HDD Palmer 800066 800069 Format Data Recovery
WD SMR HDD 1.5T Data Recovered From 0.03GB Patient HDD by Module 190 Auto Repair

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DFL WD HDD Firmware Repair Highlight Functions and Solutions

The following are the DFL WD HDD Firmware Repair Highlight Functions and Solutions for a higher success rate of Western Digital hdd data recovery cases.

01: Support unlock firmware area for many new WD SMR HDDs;
02: Easy firmware module test and repair;
03: Shift modules to new empty tracks, change module location to fix SA bad sector issue;
04: Very easy common slow fix repair for new and old wd drives;
05: Easy head map editing in RAM;
06: Easy smartware unlock;
07: Repair weak heads by adjusting heads’ working temperature;
08: Easy head adaptive parameters swap to get head swap more successful;
09: Easy rom regeneration for old wd drives before smr drives;
10: Easy firmware failure bypassing to repair busy undetected drives;

Read full list of highlight feature by the following video demo:

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DFL Seagate HDD Firmware Repair Highlight Functions and Solutions

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The following are the DFL Seagate HDD Firmware Repair Highlight Functions and Solutions for a higher success rate of Seagate hdd data recovery cases.

01: Easy switch from quick firmware repair solutions(DFL-DDP data recovery equipment) and professional firmware repair solutions(DFL-Seagate firmware repair software);
02: Support unlock rom generation for many new seagate hdd families and models and unlock the firmware area successfully;
03: Read full list of highlight feature by the following video demo:

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