WD SMR 800077 CARMEL HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps

How to recover lost data from WD SMR 800077 Carmel patient hard drives?
2060-800077-003 HDD Family: CARMEL

WD CARMEL HDD Failure Types:

SED lock and MCU lock;
Weak heads
Slow issue by firmware corruption;
All sectors 0;
Inaccessible data area;

Common Functions to be used to repair and recover lost data from WD SMR Carmel HDDs

HDD ROM chip pin reader to read/write ROM content;
MCU unlock ROM generation;
Disable 411;
Sector response time modification;
T2Data backup;
SMRzone backup;
190 backup, repair(Scan missing nodes, repair wrong nodes, delete overlapped nodes, etc ), write, ram loading(T2 auto loading);
Head map set up;
etc

WD CARMEL HDD Models:

WD60EDAZ-11BMZB0 2060-800077-003 REV P1
WD60EMAZ-51TKPB0 2060-800077-003 REV P1
WD60EZAZ-00ZGHB0 2060-800077-003 REV P2
WD60EFAX-68SHWN0 2060-800077-003 REV P1

WD20EZAZ-00GGJB0 2060-800077-003 REV P1

To repair and recover lost data from WD SMR Carmel hard drives, users need to have the following hdd repair tool and data recovery equipment:

HDD ROM Chip Pin Reader
DFL-WD HDD Repair Tool
DFL-DDP Data Recovery Equipment

WD SMR Carmel HDD Repair and Data Recovery Steps:
DFL-URE AND HDD ROM CHIP PIN READER HELP WITH EASIER WD SMR HDD FIRMWARE UNLOCK

Helpful links:

WD 2060-800077 WD20EZAZ HDD Firmware Unlock PCB

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