Slow problem is very common firmware failure in western Digital hard drives, it is also the same situation for WD SMR hard drives. But please note: Slow issue can also be caused by physical weak head or weak platter surface. It’s not possible...
August 2, 2025 3:35 AM / no comments
This is one very successful Western Digital HGST helium hdd firmware repair and data recovery case study from one Dolphin user in Turkey. The user has tried other software and solutions but failed to get the lost data back.
Patient HDD ID:
WD141KRYZ-01C66B0
14TB
Patient...
July 9, 2025 7:12 AM / no comments
There are many new hard drives using new mini bios chips on the PCB containing the rom modules and hex data. Some PCBs have one mini bios chip and some PCBs have two mini bios chips: rom chip 0 and rom chip 1.
Mini rom chip size: 4mm x 3mm and...
August 31, 2024 8:12 AM / no comments
This is one very successful Western Digital SMR hard drive firmware repair and data recovery case study for one Dolphin user in India. Best Data Recovery Solution of WD SMR HDDs.
WD SMR Patient hdd id:
Model number-WD40EZAZ-00SF3B0
PCB number:...
July 3, 2024 12:08 PM / no comments
Seagate hard drive translator regeneration is one very important firmware repair function within all Seagate firmware repair tool.
There’re two modes for Seagate hdd translator regeneration:
01: Translator regeneration in ATA mode;
02:...
April 1, 2024 4:40 AM / no comments
There’re many Western Digital patient hard drives suffering bad sectors in the service area and users cannot operate on the firmware modules properly. At this time, if the firmware modules are corrupted, the patient drives become undetected,...
February 29, 2024 3:54 AM / no comments
Data recovery labs receive more and more data recovery cases to get lost data back from Western Digital Hitachi Helium hard drives. Among all of these Helium hdd data recovery cases, UNC firmware failure repair and recovery is very common case.
It’s...
December 30, 2023 10:43 AM / no comments
Case study name: WD20JDRW-11C7VS0 810082 USB undetected hdd firmware repair and data recovery steps
Patient HDD ID:
Model number-WD20JDRW-11C7VS0
Capacity: 2TB
PCB: 2060-810082
Failure symptoms:
Undetected, spin up and down, data area was...
December 24, 2023 4:07 AM / no comments
This is one Seagate ST500LX005 Dead SSHD Firmware Repair and Data Recovery case study for one DFL user in USA.
Get lost data back from one Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD – 500GB Hybrid Hard Drive – ST500LX005!
ST500LX005-Family: Kahuna_5400
SSHD
Failure:...
December 24, 2023 4:00 AM / no comments
MQ02ABF050H MQ02ABD100H Toshiba SSHD data recovery cases are common in many data recovery labs worldwide.
When users receive the MQ02ABF050H MQ02ABD100H Toshiba SSHDs or similar ones, users try to access the data area but failed. If running...
December 24, 2023 3:48 AM / no comments