This is one patient Western Digital hard drive data recovery case study from one DFL user in Brazil.
Patient HDD ID:
Model number: WD10JPCX-24UE4T0
SN: WD-WX91E661V92V
Microcode: 00160094
Family: FBLITE
PCB number: 1960
Patient HDD failures:
Undetected;
Capacity...
February 26, 2021 3:02 PM / no comments
When the patient hard drive WD40NMZW-11GX6S1 was received, the drive was not detected and running very slowly and it was told that the patient drive had smartware password protected and the user did accidental format over the hdd. Both data...
January 13, 2021 10:02 AM / no comments
This is one dead Seagate ST1000LM014 HDD data recovery case study for one DFL user in Peru.
Please note the patient SSHD in this case study was dead and not spinning at all and the family ID is Kahuna.
Mostly this is caused by the SSD failure...
August 20, 2020 1:35 PM / no comments
This is one successful data recovery case study from one DFL user from Indonesia and the user has recovered the lost data fully.
When the user received this patient ST500LM000 HDD, the hdd didn’t spin up at all when power on.
The spin up failure...
August 20, 2020 1:10 PM / no comments
This article is shared by HDD Head Tools factory and they are offering some interesting photos on how to swap heads successfully for one western digital hard drive-WD3200AAKS.
Model number: WD3200AAKS-75L9A0
Platter number: 1
Head number: 2
Please...
July 3, 2020 10:21 AM / no comments
USB and SATA
701605 – 701499 701615 – 701499 701635 – 701672 701650 – 701499 701675 – 701672, 701609, or 771672 771737 – 701692 or 771692 771754 – 701692 or...
August 14, 2019 9:31 AM / no comments
How to recover lost data from WD20EZAZ-00GGJB0 with firmware failure? this PCB is for you.
This is one unlocked and special data recovery PCB with PCB number-2060-800077-003 REV P1.
Some new 2TB WD hard drives have PCB number of 2060-800077-003...
February 25, 2019 3:55 AM / no comments
This patient drive was received with clicking noises. This patient drive was one WD 2TB MyPassport USB3.0 hard drive.
The engineer confirmed the hdd had physical head damage and therefore found one donor drive with same model and head number...
January 31, 2019 3:02 AM / no comments
When users connected the patient drive to pc, it’s lucky that the drive was spinning smoothly and had no clicking noises, this one was very important to confirm because users couldn’t treat the physically damaged drives to firmware damaged...
January 31, 2019 2:56 AM / no comments
This is one typical undetected hard drive recovery case study.
When this patient hard drive was received, the drive was very unstable, no ID information, no capacity was detected and the program displayed capacity 0.
Patient HDD ID:
WD30PURX-64P6ZY0Capacity:...
January 21, 2019 4:02 AM / no comments