Category Archives: News & Tips

Sep

FAIL Servo Op=00DF Resp=0007 and Seagate hDD Head Failure

News & Tips HeadMaster

FAIL Servo Op=00DF Resp=0007 is very common terminal error message for Seagate physical damaged hard drives. If this error keeps coming like below and never enter F3 T>, it is definitely head damage. Boot 0x80MFAIL Servo Op=0100 Resp=0003 0100 0000 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .

Sep

Seagate HDD Com Error PreampFaultStatus Fix

News & Tips HeadMaster

PreampFaultStatus is one very com terminal error for Seagate hard drives. PreampFaultStatus:ROM not original, read ROM and check SN, Model and compare with labelPreamp chip damage, not commonChange ROM modules to fix and see

Sep

How to treat Clicking hard drives carefully

News & Tips HeadMaster

Clicking hard drive data recovery case is one of the most common data recovery cases in our clean room and our clean room engineers are able to handle these cases properly. For all these clicking hard drives, users must have proper clean room environment and clean room head and .

Aug

WD HDD 2060-810011 Unlock PCB Purchasing Tips

News & Tips HeadMaster

If users want to buy one special WD unlock PCB of 2060-810011 to unlock the original HDD for firmware repair and data recovery, users need to pay attention to the quality of the unlock PCB because from the layout, it looks like the same but some users may get .

Aug

WD 2060-800077 HDD Unlock PCB Purchasing Tips

News & Tips HeadMaster

There’re some new western digital hard drives whose PCB number is 2060-800077-003 REV P1 and for these hard drives, the PCB has MCU lock and the ROM and firmware cannot be accessed. If these patient hard drives have firmware corruption, the patient HDDs may be not detected, wrongly detected .

Aug

WD Charger HDD Unlock PCB 800065 800067 810003 Purchasing Tips

News & Tips HeadMaster

WD Charger family HDD is another type of MCU locked HDD and if users want to repair the firmware corruptions of these HDDs, users need to get special unlock PCBs. 2060-800067 USB3.0 PCB>2060-800065 Unlock SATA PCBType C PCB 2060-810003>2060-800065 SATA Unlock PCB The size of 800065 unlock PCB is .

Aug

WD HDD Palmer 800066 800069 Unlock PCB Data Recovery Tips

News & Tips HeadMaster

HDD Head Tools factory has recently helped two users to process the WD HDD Palmer 800066 unlock PCB issues. The two users don’t have good soldering skills and during the ROM chip soldering, the unlock PCB was damaged and the luck thing was that the ROM chip is still .

Aug

WD HDD DCM Recognition for Head Swap

News & Tips, WD HDD Donor Tips HeadMaster

For DCM number, users can easily find it from the WD label and the 5th, 6th and 7th digits are connected with the physical head parameters. DCM = Drive Configuration Matrix Example for old models: DCM: HSEHYV2AH 1- Motor (H) 2- Base (S) 3- Latch (E) 4- Bottom VCM .

Aug

WD HDDs with 1.5-1.67TB Each Platter

News & Tips, WD HDD Heads & Platters HeadMaster

WD6003FRYZ-xxF0DBx 6TB 4 platters 8 headsWD8004FRYZ-xxVAEBx 8TB 5 platters 10 headsWD102KRYZ-xxA5ABx 10TB 6 platters 12 headsWD6003FZBX-xxK5WBx 6TB 4 platters 8 headsWD6003FFBX-xxMU3Nx 6TB 4 platters 8 headsWD80EFAX-xxKNBNx 8TB 5 platters 10 headsWD8003FFBX-xxB9ANx 8TB 5 platters 10 headsWD80EMAZ-xxM9AAx 8TB 5 platters 10 headsWD101EFAX-xxLDBNx 10TB 6 platters 12 heads