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This is one very helpful user manual for all data recovery engineers, specially Dolphin data recovery tools users who wish to enhance their Seagate hard drive firmware repair and data recovery success rate.

Users can learn not only the Seagate hdd firmware modules and working principles, hdd firmware ftheailure types, causes, the most important, users get the latest firmware repair and data recovery solutions and steps to fix those failures.

Seagate Firmware Repair Manual Index

01: DFL Seagate Hardware & Software P1-2
02: Seagate HDD Types and Working Modes P5-6

03: Look Into Seagate T> Drives(Old Drives) P6-24

3.0 Seagate T>Drive Families P6-7
3.1 Firmware Modules of Seagate T> Drives P7-8
3.2 Identify Corrupted Module P8-10
3.3 How to Fix Corrupted Modules of T> Drives P10
3.4 SMART and G-list P11
3.5 T drives Common Commands and Tips P11-18
3.6 Common Failures and Solutions for T> Drives P18-22
3.7 How to judge if it’s head damage P22-24

04: Look Into Seagate F3 T> Drives (New Drives) P24-64

4.1 F3 Families P24
4.2 How to Identify F3 drives P24-25
4.3 Important Firmware Modules of F3 T> Drives P25
4.4 Important SYS files of F3 T>Drives P25
4.5 General Steps to use DFL Seagate hdd firmware repair software P25-26

4.6 Power on Patient HDD, hdd is not spinning, what to do? P26-27
4.7 How to Repair Weak-Head HDDs by adjusting adaptive temperature P27-28
4.8 How to Edit Head Map in ROM P28-30
4.9 How to Obtain Preamp Type; P30-31
4.10 How to Edit Head Map in RAM P31-32
4.11 Swap Heads Directly if FAIL Servo Op=0100 Resp=0003 Keeps Coming P32

4.12 How to Fix ‘SimError-remaining in BootFW’, ‘Perform a double download without a power cycle’ P32-33

4.13 Patient Drive is Busy or LED and Cannot Enter F3 T>, What to Do? P33-42
>Short connect PCB to enter F3 T> for old F3 drives; P33-34
>Virtual boot by writing adaptive rom and load SYS20D to enter F3 T>; P34-35
>Generate and write adaptive CC49 ROM for 7200.12 3F family and load CC49 loader with the same head number; P35-36
>Load Backup and Write; P36-39
>Disable Subsystem; P39-41
>Grasp the best time to enter F3 T> before the HDD enters LED status; P41
>How swap to access F3 T>; P41-42

4.14 ROM Backup and Write; P42-47
4.15 How to unlock firmware area if locked; P44-47
4.16 Seagate Lombard(70) and Megalodon(63) Firmware Unlock; P47-48
4.17 How to backup SYS files/firmware modules? P48-53
>The sys file table is empty and the sys files aren’t listed, how to backup sys files? P51
>How to Read SYS by Menu-Edit SYS Files P51-53
4.18 How to write SYS file(SYS 35-NGlist) P53-54
4.19 How to fix the partial sector access firmware failure without SYS35 backup(partial sector access auto repair) P54-55
4.20 How to Edit HDD ID; P55-56

4.21 How to fix the data ‘encryption’ issue of Seagate F3 HDD? P56-59
>01: Remove Password or Remove Password 2; P56
>02: Seagate SMR Format Recovery; P56-57
>03: B2 Data Offset Fix; P57-58
>04: Unlock the firmware area permanently; P58-59

4.22 How to Test SYS Files; P59-61
4.23 How to Fix Seagate Slow Issue and Lots of Starting LBA of RW Request Errors P61-62
4.24 Common Seagate HDD Firmware Failure Fix-Quick Firmware Repair Solutions P62-63
4.25 Seagate SSHD(Kahuna_5400) Doesn’t Spin Up, How to Fix? P63
4.26 Functions or Operations Which Can Destroy Data P63-64

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