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New Data Recovery Solution for WD SMR Hard Drives

Dolphin Data Lab has upgraded DFL-DDP data recovery software again and added one new data recovery solution for WD SMR hard drives-Read by Tech. Mode.

Remember, the most important thing for WD SMR hard drive data recovery is to backup the module 190 securely, Dolphin engineers have mentioned this tip many times for users in forum and manuals, users can find the WD SMR hdd data recovery case studies here to get more tips.

For WD SMR hard drives, there’re four data image modes:

Image by LBA(Standard mode and this is fast)
Image by PBA or CHS, not used often,usually for cases with all 0000 and the module 190 is damaged and cannot be repaired, success rate is low and can recover some small-sized files;
Image by Tech. Mode(new)：this mode is specially for WD unstable faulty SMR hard drives with bad sectors, weak heads or head swap. This mode is to image according to the WD HDD factory/tech. commands and the data area will be imaged more smoothly.

Here is one video to show the WD SMR hard drive data recovery tips including the latest data recovery solution:

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WD SMR HDD Data Recovery Tips and Case Studies

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This article lists all WD SMR HDD firmware repair and data recovery case studies and tips and users can learn a lot on how to recover lost data from WD SMR HDDs.

What tools are used to repair and recover lost data from WD SMR HDDs?

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WD SMR PALMER CHARGER HDD ALL SECTORS ZERO RECOVERED EASILY BY DFL-URE OR UREP

HOW TO FIX WESTERN DIGITAL SMR HDD SLOW ISSUE

WD SMR HDD ALL SECTORS 0 SECTOR MARK

WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE MODULE 190 MANAGER FOR YOUR BEST RECOVERY SUCCESS RATE

WDC WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 WD SMR HDD FORMAT DATA RECOVERY CASE STUDY

WDC WD40EDAZ-11SLVB0 WD SMR HDD FORMAT DATA RECOVERY

WD SMR HARD DRIVE T2 AUTOLOADING FOR HIGH RECOVERY SUCCESS RATE

WD SMR HDD SECOND-LEVEL TRANSLATOR MODULE 190 BACKUP METHODS

WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK AND BACKUP

WD SMR 2060-810035 SPYGLASS II HDD REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY STEPS

WD SMR HDD WD20EZAZ 810011 DATA RECOVERY CASE BY DFL USER IN SRI LANKA

WD SMR 800077 CARMEL HDD REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY STEPS

WD SMR 800065 800067 810003 CHARGER HDD REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY SOLUTIONS

WD 800069 800066 SMR PALMER HDD REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY SOLUTIONS

WD SMR SPYGLASS SPYGLASS2 800041 HDD REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY STEPS

WD SMR HDD 2060-810035 FIRMWARE UNLOCK WITHOUT FIRMWARE UNLOCK PCB

WESTERN DIGITAL SMR HDD SYSTEM FORMAT DATA RECOVERY

HOW TO UNLOCK WD SMR HDDS FIRMWARE AREA WITHOUT FIRMWARE UNLOCK PCB

WESTERN DIGITAL SMR HDDS SED V2 DATA RECOVERY SOLUTIONS

WD 2060-810011 1C VERSION VS 3C VERSION HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK PCB

WD SMR HDD SECTOR 000000 190 FAILURE DATA RECOVERY SOLUTION

WD SMR HDD 2060-800077 810011 UNLOCK PCB CORRECT ROM CHIP LOCATION

WD HDD SED LOCK FIRMWARE LOCK DATA LOCK MCU LOCK

HOW TO SET UP HEAD MAP FOR WESTERN DIGITAL SMR 8X00XX HARD DRIVES

WD 8X00XX HDD SED DATA ENCRYPTION DATA RECOVERY STEPS

DFL UNIQUE DATA RECOVERY TIPS FOR WD 2060-810011 CARMEL HDDS

WD SMR HDD USB to SATA Connectors

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WD SMR HDD All Sectors 0 Sector Mark

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Within the new DFL-DDP data recovery software, users can set sector mark easily for ‘all sectors 0’ areas. This feature is very helpful to get lost data from WD SMR hard drives.

‘All sectors 0’ failure has two situations:

The 0 sectors have data and the 0 sectors don’t have data. It’s normal many sectors are 0, empty and no data at all;
For WD SMR hard drives, many 0 sectors may contain real data which is controlled by the dynamic translator module 190.

In real cases, it’s not possible to tell which 0 sectors have data or not and therefore, users need to mark these sectors and put them aside.

Next the engineer ticked the WD SMR all sectors 0 mark, went to set up head map, image good heads, image good sectors first or load 190 automatically to image; After the first round of image, users can edit the disk image settings, for example change the read block size to smaller, disable pre-read, change to lower-rated data transfer mode, etc. After these settings, users can image all the 0 sectors again.

By above method, users can definitely get more data back from the WD SMR hard drives.

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WDC WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 WD SMR HDD Format Data Recovery Case Study

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One more WD SMR HDD WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0 was recovered by DFL-WD hdd repair tool and DFL-DDP data recovery equipment.

Before repairing the second-translator module 190, the hdd had only 0.2GB data remained, the engineer got the following report:

2022/11/02 09:12:43 —T2 analysis—
2022/11/02 09:12:43 —————————-
2022/11/02 09:12:43 Check SIT:
2022/11/02 09:12:43 SIT Check…OK!
2022/11/02 09:12:43 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0
2022/11/02 09:12:43 Traversal completes
2022/11/02 09:12:43 ***Tree root node no. error(Tree=7507,File=7942)
2022/11/02 09:12:43 —Param—
2022/11/02 09:12:43 T2 Format:LBA64V2
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Capacity 512:7814037168
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Capacity 4K:976754646
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Root:7942
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Entry pre node:29
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Max entry sects:65535
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Node size:256
2022/11/02 09:12:44 —Summary—
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Node count:198850
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Used count:13005
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Free count:185845
2022/11/02 09:12:44 —T2 modules—
2022/11/02 09:12:44 T2 size:50905696
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Data pos:13C6800
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Block size:4096
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Free Node ID:24183
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Entry Count:14967
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Used Entry:46
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Total node count = 198850 Used:13005
2022/11/02 09:12:50 Sort LBA
2022/11/02 09:12:51 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0
2022/11/02 09:12:51 Valid data = 0.20(GB) Unallocated = 3725.83(GB)
2022/11/02 09:12:51 Vacant Nodes:>=0

After repairing the module 190, the report change to repaired status as below:

2022/11/02 09:12:43 —T2 analysis—
2022/11/02 09:12:43 —————————-
2022/11/02 09:12:43 Check SIT:
2022/11/02 09:12:43 SIT Check…OK!
2022/11/02 09:12:43 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0
2022/11/02 09:12:43 Traversal completes
2022/11/02 09:12:43 ***Tree root node no. error(Tree=7507,File=7942)
2022/11/02 09:12:43 —Param—
2022/11/02 09:12:43 T2 Format:LBA64V2
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Capacity 512:7814037168
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Capacity 4K:976754646
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Root:7942
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Entry pre node:29
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Max entry sects:65535
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Node size:256
2022/11/02 09:12:44 —Summary—
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Node count:198850
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Used count:13005
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Free count:185845
2022/11/02 09:12:44 —T2 modules—
2022/11/02 09:12:44 T2 size:50905696
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Data pos:13C6800
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Block size:4096
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Free Node ID:24183
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Entry Count:14967
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Used Entry:46
2022/11/02 09:12:44 Total node count = 198850 Used:13005
2022/11/02 09:12:50 Sort LBA
2022/11/02 09:12:51 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0
2022/11/02 09:12:51 Valid data = 0.20(GB) Unallocated = 3725.83(GB)
2022/11/02 09:12:51 Vacant Nodes:>=0
2022/11/02 09:13:20 —T2 analysis—
2022/11/02 09:13:20 —————————-
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Check SIT:
2022/11/02 09:13:20 SIT Check…OK!
2022/11/02 09:13:20 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Traversal completes
2022/11/02 09:13:20 —Param—
2022/11/02 09:13:20 T2 Format:LBA64V2
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Capacity 512:7814037168
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Capacity 4K:976754646
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Root:8192
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Entry pre node:29
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Max entry sects:65535
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Node size:256
2022/11/02 09:13:20 —Summary—
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Node count:198850
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Used count:22503
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Free count:176347
2022/11/02 09:13:20 —T2 modules—
2022/11/02 09:13:20 T2 size:50905696
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Data pos:13C6800
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Block size:4096
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Free Node ID:22504
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Entry Count:476879
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Used Entry:475696
2022/11/02 09:13:20 Total node count = 198850 Used:22503
2022/11/02 09:13:22 Sort LBA
2022/11/02 09:13:22 **********Vacant node count = 0 Overlapped node count = 0
2022/11/02 09:13:22 Valid data = 3708.95(GB) Unallocated = 17.07(GB)
2022/11/02 09:13:22 Vacant Nodes:>=0

After repairing module 190, the user wrote the new module 190 to patient HDD and then users get 3708.95(GB) data back by DFL-DDP data recovery equipment.

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WDC WD40EDAZ-11SLVB0 WD SMR HDD Format Data Recovery

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This is one WD SMR HDD WDC WD40EDAZ-11SLVB0 data recovery case by one client who was using other data recovery tools but failed and finally bought Dolphin data recovery tools to fix the SMR HDD format case and get most data back.

The engineer helped the user to backup the second level translator-module 190 by DFL WD HDD repair tool and then go to DFL DDP data recovery equipment, repair 190.

Before repairing 190, all the data nodes records remained in module 190 indicates the valid data is only 15.01GB after format and the user couldn’t get lost data back at all，the user tried all methods and tools he had.

After repairing the 190 by DFL-DDP data recovery equipment, the engineer got the following result:

2022/10/25 09:41:14 —T2 analysis—
2022/10/25 09:41:14 —————————-
2022/10/25 09:41:14 Checking SIT:
2022/10/25 09:41:14 SIT Checking…OK!
2022/10/25 09:41:15 **********Vacant nodes count = 0 Overlapped nodes count = 0
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Traversal completes
2022/10/25 09:41:15 —Param—
2022/10/25 09:41:15 T2 Format:LBA64V2
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Capacity 512:7814037168
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Capacity 4K:976754646
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Root:8192
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Entry pre node:29
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Max entry sects:65535
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Node size:256
2022/10/25 09:41:15 —Summary—
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Node count:198850
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Uesd count:38690
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Free count:160160
2022/10/25 09:41:15 —T2 modules—
2022/10/25 09:41:15 T2 size in sectors:455808
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Data pos:13C6800
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Block size:4096
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Free Node ID:38691
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Entry Count:781243
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Used Entry:620135
2022/10/25 09:41:15 Total node count = 198850 Used:38690
2022/10/25 09:41:48 Sort LBA
2022/10/25 09:41:51 **********Vacant nodes = 0 Overlapped nodes = 0
2022/10/25 09:41:51 Valid data = 3544.93(GB) Unallocated = 181.09(GB)
2022/10/25 09:41:51 Vacant nodes count:>=0

Finally about 3.5T data was recovered from the WD SMR hard drives.

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WD SMR Hard Drive T2 AutoLoading for High Recovery Success Rate

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T2Data auto loading to RAM is one featured data recovery solution within DFL-DDP data recovery equipment for WD SMR hard drives. Users can find this data recovery solution within the common WD hdd repair column or disk image settings.

Dolphin DFL users can backup T2data by DFL-WD hdd repair tool or users can extract the T2data from the module 190 within DFL-DDP data recovery equipment.

When the WD SMR hard drives are all sectors 0000 or data area is not accessed, users can try to load the T2data auto to RAM for access to the data.

Here is the video on how to load T2data auto to RAM for WD SMR HDD data recovery

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WD SMR HDD Second-level Translator Module 190 Backup Methods

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Most WD SMR HDD data recovery cases are concerned with the second-level dynamic translator-module 190.

For example, the WD SMR HDDs are formatted, all sectors 0000, wrongly detected, no data access, etc. Users can try to backup the module 190, repair 190, load module 190 to ram to fix the issue.

For all Dolphin DFL users, it is much easier and more successful to recover WD SMR HDDs. In the video below, users can learn how to use DFL-WD firmware repair tool to backup the module 190 in different ways.

01: Double click module 190, select all hex data and then save as 190.rpm;
02: FW Operations>Read Modules>Read Module 190 by ID mode;
03: FW Operations>Read Modules>Read Module 190 by ABA mode, read copy 0 or copy 1, sometimes copy 0 fails, then try to read copy 1, sometimes if both copies fail, try read valid data only;
04: Read SA regions and users can try to extract module 190 from the SA region.

Users can find detailed steps and instructions on how to backup WD SMR HDD second level translator module 190 here.

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WD SMR HDD Firmware Unlock and Backup

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For data recovery from all WD SMR HDDs, it’s necessary to learn how to read the original rom, how to generate unlock rom, how to write unlock rom and unlock firmware area, how to backup firmware resources.

Tools used for WD SMR HDD Firmware Unlock and Backup:
DFL-WD HDD firmware repair tool
HDD ROM chip pin reader

Users can learn from the video here on how to do all above

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WD SMR 2060-810035 Spyglass II HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps

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WD SMR 2060-810035 Spyglass II HDDs have both MCU lock and SED lock. To repair firmware corruption and recover lost data, users need to fix the MCU lock first: swap with special 2060-810035 firmware unlock PCB or writing unlock rom to bypass the MCU lock by DFL-WD hdd repair tool.

Please note: not all 810035 PCBs support MCU lock bypass by unlock ROM.

Most common HDD failures for WD SMR 2060-810035 Spyglass II HDDs:

The data area is not accessed;
The data area is full of 0000;
The drive is undetected due to 190 corruption;
Physical head damage.

Most common functions and solutions used in repairing and recovering WD SMR hard drives:

Read/write ROM by HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader;
Generate unlock ROM by DFL WD hdd repair tool;
Sort nodes within module 190 by LBA/tree;
Scan missing nodes;
Delete overlapped nodes/wrong nodes;
Repair wrong nodes, etc.

Users can save all the modification to one new module 190 and then users can write the new module 190 or load the module 190 or T2data to RAM by DFL-DDP data recovery equipment for immediate data recovery.

WD SMR 2060-810035 Spyglass II HDD Common PCB number and Models:

PCB number: 2060-810035-000 REV P0

WD40NDZW-11BCSS0 USB 3.0
WD40NDZW-11A8JS0
WD40NDZW-11A8JS1
WD40NMZW-59A8NS1
WD40NMZW-59BCBS1
WD50NDZW-11A8JS1
WD50NMZW-59BCBS0
WD50NMZW-11BCBS0
WD50NMZW-59A8NS1
WD50NDZW-11BCSS0

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Western Digital SMR HDD System Format Data Recovery

It’s possible to recover lost data from Western Digital SMR HDD suffering system accidental format by DFL-WD hdd repair tool and DFL-DDP data recovery hardware tool.

For WD SMR HDD system format, it’s more complicated to get lost data back for data recovery engineers than traditional hdd format.

For system format of WD SMR HDD, except the new system data, all other data area become 0000 if users check the hdd by Hex tool. This is because WD SMR HDD system format will cause data-related firmware module change and in some cases, the data is permanently lost.

For data recovery engineers with DFL data recovery tools, they can fix some of these WD SMR HDD format cases with the following new firmware module solution:


Many DFL users have reported to us that they have fixed many WD SMR HDD cases from their competitors who failed to recover lost data with other data recovery tools.

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