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Seagate SLIM HDD Head Replacement Tools

Seagate laptop SLIM hard drives with 1 platter 2 heads and 2 platters 4 heads and these heads park on one external ramp.

Seagate Slim HDD Head Comb Suite.Advanced contains four head combs:

ST Slim 2H, 2 pieces, used for slim HDDs with 2 heads;
ST Slim 4H, 2 pieces, used for slim HDDs with 4 heads.

Both names are clearly and properly put on the head comb itself, when users get the head combs, it is super easy to learn which head comb is for 2 heads’ Slim HDDs and which head comb is for 4 heads’ slim HDDs.

Supported models for example:

st500lm030 st1000lm035 st1000m037 st1000lm038 st1000lm048
st2000lm007 st2000lm009 st2000lm010 st2000lm015
more models with similar physical hdd structure…

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How to Select Correct HDD Head Replacement Tools

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Dolphin Data Lab offers the most cost-effective hard drive head replacement tools to data recovery engineers worldwide for successful physical hdd data recovery.

In many patient drives, the actual platter and head number are different from the designed physical platter and head number. Some of the heads can be cut physically and are not used at all. For example, the patient HDD was designed to have 4 platters and 8 heads but actually the patient HDD has only 3 platters and 6 heads.

The following is one example HDD-MQ03ABB200M:

Users can check the parking ramp carefully and can find the parking ramp has 4 separators(4 platters) and therefore users need to select one head comb with 4 separators.

Watch the video demo here for this patient HDD

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ST2000LM005 Head Replacement Tool is Available within Hard Drive Ramp Toolkit

New head replacement tool is added for Seagate Samsung HDD-ST2000LM005, this drive has 3 platters and 6 heads, users can use this new head replacement tool to separate the heads properly and securely.

This new head replacement tool is available within the hard drive ramp toolkit and there’re many more new hard drives head replacement tools are also added to this product.

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Helium Hard Drive Head Replacement Tools 8T 10T 12T 14T 16T

The following are the latest helium hard drive head replacement tools with very good price.

STH82 for Seagate 12TB helium drives, ST12000NM0007
ST5E for Seagate 8TB helium drives ST8000NM000A
STH81 for Seagate 10TB helium drives, ST10000NM0478, 8 platters, 16 heads
STH9 for Seagate 14TB 16TB helium drives, 9 platters, 18 heads

W3-9: WD helium hdd of 10T-16T, 9 platters;

Users can get more details on the latest helium hdd head replacement tools here.

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Head Replacement Tools for Seagate HDDs Whose Heads Parked on Platters

Recently Dolphin team got some enquiries of Seagate hdd head replacement tools for heads parking on the platters, mainly for Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, 7200.12, etc.

The following are some tools which can do the job:

Seagate 7200.10 11 12 LP SV35.5 Head Unstuck And Replacement Tool Package-P1 Version
Seagate 7200.10 11 12 LP SV35.5 Head Replacement Tool-P2 Version
Seagate Head Replacement Tools For 7200.11 And 7200.12

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New Hard Drive Head Replacement Tools

The following new hard drive head replacement tools are available within the Hard Drive Ramp Toolkit Pro. 

Newly added head replacement tool on March 17, 2024
STH81 for Seagate 10TB helium drives, ST10000NM0478, 4 platters, 8 heads

Newly added head replacement combs Jan.3rd, 2024:
T3-7: Toshiba desktop hdd, 7 platters, MG06ACA800E, 8TB;
W3-9: WD helium hdd of 10T-16T, 9 platters;
ST3-4: Seagate ST8000NM0178, 8TB, 4 platters;
ST3-5: Seagate ST4000NM0035, 4TB, 5 platters;
SST24: Seagate SAS HDD, ST1800MM0129, 1.8T, ST2400MM0129, 2.4T;

Newly added Toshiba hdd head replacement tool on November 1 2023: T21, for laptop toshiba hdds with 1 platter, please note the existing T22 is used for 1-platter toshiba laptop hdds for many cases;

Newly added Western Digital Head Comb for WD 6T 800001 and 4T 810011 on November 1 2023:
W3S, example supported models-WD60PURX-64T0ZY0; WD40EJRX-89AKWY0

Newly added Toshiba Head Combs July 14, 2023
T312: Toshiba 3.5″ HDDs, 1/2 platters
T3-3: Toshiba 3.5″ HDDs, 3 platters
DT01ACA100, DT01ACA200, DT01ACA300, DT01ABA100V, DT01ABA200V, DT01ABA300V, etc

Users can find more hard drive head and platter swap tools here.

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Seagate Rosewood Hard Drive Physical Data Recovery

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Seagate rosewood hard drive data recovery cases enter data recovery labs as external portable hard drives and physical data recovery is very common data recovery case with clicking noises or even scratched surfaces.

When these Seagate rosewood hdds suffer physical head or surface or motor failure, users need to find donor hard drives for head swap, platter cleaning and even platter alignment. Special donor head requirement of Seagate Rosewood hard drives is available here.

Seagate Rosewood HDD Families:

Seagate Rosewood_A5
Seagate Rosewood_8C
Seagate Rosewood_AF

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

1, Edit head map in ROM;
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-Seagate HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP data recovery equipment
Head and Platter Swap and Clean Suite
Seagate LM Slim HDD Head Comb Suite.Advanced

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Data Recovery Solutions for Hitachi HDDs with Head Failure

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Dolphin data recovery hardware tools offer very good solutions to repair and recover lost data from Hitachi hard drives with head failure.

Hard drive symptoms with head failure:

Patient HDD keeps Busy
Patient HDD undetected
Patient HDD works very slowly and has many or regular bad sectors

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

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

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

Head test-Menu path-DFL Hitachi firmware repair software>Hitachi ARM/IBM>Firmware Operations>Head Test;

Edit head map within NVRAM, this function is very helpful in many cases to fix hitachi drives with single head failure or when the patient drive is undetected but ready;

Set up head map to image good heads first and then weak head, for many Hitachi head swap cases, users need to use the auto virtual translator solutions;

Swap heads by Hitachi head replacement tools within clean room environment to fix the patient drives with total head damage,

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Seagate Hard Drive Weak Heads Repair and Data Recovery

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Seagate hard drive weak heads data recovery is very common data recovery case and if users don’t have DFL Seagate HDD firmware repair tool and want to recover the lost data from patient hard drives with weak heads, users need to set up head map, image patient HDD by heads, image good heads first and then image weak heads, or users need to swap heads for full data recovery. Read more

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