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WD HDD Auto Repair is one very famous hdd repair tool from Dolphin Data Lab but most people use it for hdd refurbishing purpose to remove bad sectors and clear smart. This article will introduce how to use this tool for data recovery purpose. Read more

Dolphin Data Lab has recently worked out one unique data recovery technology for new western digital hard drives such as the WD PCB1698 series, 17XX, 18XX and 19XX series, that’s the 5c loading technology. With 5c loading, users can fix these new western digital hard drives with much higher efficiency and success rate.

We have explained the traditional data recovery methods in one previous article: How To Fix WD PCB1698 and newer HDDs For Data Recovery Purpose With DFL-WD II HDD Repair Tool, within that article, we explained three methods to recover lost data from western digital hard drives: Read more

At the current stage and with the latest program of DFL-FRP WD, users must learn on how to fix the undetected hard drives or busy hard drives of new 1698 series such as the SADLE G6 family-WD20EARS hard drives.

To fix such kind of new hard drives, users need to load loaders of 11 and 13, if 13 doesn’t exist, then use hot swap method to access the SA and fix the firmware failures. Read more

With the latest version of  DFL-WDII or DFL-FRP WD module, users can easily unlock the new WD password protected hard drives. The new hard drives are a little different from the old WD ROYL and L series and the algorithm changes and therefore we have upgraded our algorithm to remove the password automatically by simple clicks. Read more

WD20EARS full of !!!! by MHDD
Scan the hdd by MHDD and it’s full of !!! and it seems there’re bad sectors in the SA, how to recover the data? Any ideas are welcome and appreciated.

This is usually caused by a single head damage, you can consider use head map editing in RAM or perform hot swap to extract all the possible data, if you need all data, you may need to swap the heads.

If the hard drive is detected, you can use selective head image of DFL-DE or DFL-DDP;
if the hdd is not detected, you can manage to read the tracks and write the tracks to one donor hdd and then do hot swap;
if the tracks couldn’t be read, the last option is to swap the heads. Read more

The following firmware damaged WD hdd belongs to the PCB 1640 series. DFL-WD II hdd repair tool is used properly to repair and restore the damaged HDD. Read more

DFL-WD II hdd repair tool helps more and more PC repair companies  and data recovery engineers to restore their damaged WD drives and get the lost data back. The following is one hdd repair case study-Head Depopping-Cutting Head 0-PCB 1640 Series.

HDD basic info:
1 platter, 2 heads, PCB1640 Read more

Dear Clients of Dolphin Data Lab, we are proud to announce the new version of DFL-WDII HDD firmware repair tool.

Version No.: 2.3.5
Release Date: July 4, 2012
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What is ARCO?

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ARCO-Advanced Read Communication Optimization. ARCO is usually used when the FW modules have a total replacement, otherwise, you don’t need to run ARCO at all or you may run the ’46 Optimize’only.

Steps to Run ARCO

Run ‘Initialization’ under ‘Online ARCO’ so that all the adaptive parameters, zone parameters, etc can be set to default and all logs will be cleared automatically;

Generation orders to run ARCO is to run ‘6f Optimize’,’6a Optimize’, ‘6b Optimize’,’69 Optimize’,’46 Optimize’. For some drives, you may run ‘6a Optimize’before ‘6f Optimize’if you fail to run ‘6f Optimize’in the beginning.

“One Button ARCO” is a combination of 6B TPI(Density) Correction, 69 Capacity Settings and 46 Optimize. Below ‘One Button ARCO’ in the DFL-WDII hdd repair program, you can find five separated Selftest processes and they are ‘6F Optimize’-TouchDn Correction, ‘6A Optimize’-GAP R/W Correction, ’46 Optimize’-Complete Channel Optimization, ’69 Optimize’-Capacity Settings, ‘6B Optimize’-TPI Correction.

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ARCO Notes

Among them, 6F and 6A are for head optimization to enhance the head R/W capabilities. Read more

ROM regeneration is one very important and powerful WD hdd repair feature of DFL-WDII hdd firmware repair tool.

The following hdd repair tips are especially for WD ROYL HDD.

When do we use ROM Regeneration?

When we are going to use ROM regeneration, you may find the following WD HDD damage symptoms. Read more