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PC-3000. How to Access Mapped Network Drives from the PC-3000 with the elevated privilegies.

One of the significant improvements of Windows OSs (since Vista) is User Account Control (UAC) feature. User Account Control prompts the user for approval each time when the app tries to make any changes to the system settings. One of the … Continue reading

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to define RAID array from ‘boxes’ (WD Book Live Duo)

Sometimes we look weird cases where we can’t define RAID configuration via autodetection based on metadata and user data. More we can find nothing in RAW recovery (file carving).

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PC-3000 HDD. Hitachi ARM drives. Translator/Drive ID issue

Sometimes Hitachi ARM drives have problem with translation. If you open Sector editor you can see the only part of users area. For example drive have 1 953 525 168 LBAs, but you can see data only before 20 millions … Continue reading

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PC-3000 DE. Operations with maps in Data Extractor and bad sectors in MFT map

Data Extractor supports following operations with map: – Merge (two) maps; – Intersection (two) maps; – Merge (two) maps without crossing; – Cut (another) map (from current); – Compress map; – Inversion map.

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PC-3000 HDD. Toshiba drives specific diagnostics

In the Basic HDD diagnostics procedure post we looked at the common steps of diagnostics for any HDD. Now we will look at the specific steps of diagnostics of Toshiba drives. In this article we will discuss the typical situations … Continue reading

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PC-3000 Flash. How to work with the problem memory chips.

There are a lot of different memory chips with reading problems such as not corrected ECC errors, dump filled by “FF” or other pattern etc. In this article we would like to talk about different problematic memory chips and solutions … Continue reading

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PC-3000 Flash. Grinding MicroSD with the help of Fibreglass Pen Brush

When we are speaking about monolith drive preparing for soldering, we should remember about one of the most important steps – grinding. Grinding – is a special process of compound erasing from the bottom side of monolith device. During this … Continue reading

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3. SMP flags issue

A lot of Seagate F3 drives have a problem with LED errors, RWerror problems or just stay in BSY state. In this article we would like to consider the popular solution for such cases. Here is Seagate Grenada drive with … Continue reading

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3 architecture drives specific diagnostics

In the Basic HDD diagnostics procedure post we looked at the common steps of diagnostics for any HDD. Now we will look at the specific steps of diagnostics of Seagate F3 architecture drives. In this article we will discuss the most … Continue reading

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PC-3000 for HDD. WD Marvell drives specific diagnostics.

In the Basic HDD diagnostics procedure post we looked at the common steps of diagnistics for any HDD. Now we will look at the specific steps of diagnostics of WD Marvell drives. In this article we will discuss the most … Continue reading

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