Articles

PC-3000 SAS. How to Solve the Medium Format Corrupted Issue on Hitachi SAS Drives

Posted on 01/13/2022 by ACELab team

Nowadays, more and more SAS drives are used for storing data and therefore become damaged due to continuous use. Some of them require spare parts, but some of them can be fixed by software methods. In this article, you can … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, PC-3000 HDD | Tagged | Leave a comment

PC-3000 Portable III/Express/UDMA. How to Fix a Rosewood SSHD with a Damaged NAND Chip

Posted on 07/26/2021 by ACELab team

Hello guys! The issue with a damaged NAND chip is very popular for the ST1000LX015 and ST2000LX001 models. At the ACE Lab Online Technical Conference 2021 we showed a case on this topic. Following up, this blog article with step-by-step instructions explains … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, PC-3000 HDD, Video | 7 Comments

PC-3000 Flash. The Main Data Correction Methods to Recover Data from NAND Flash Devices with the Maximum Success Rate

Posted on 02/26/2021 by ACELab team

Hello everybody! Last week we have discussed how to make the first steps in NAND Flash data recovery with the PC-3000 Flash during the ACE Lab Free Webinar. Following up, we have prepared for you this article about the vital … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, PC-3000 Flash | Leave a comment

PC-3000 Flash. 6 Steps to Recover Data from Devices Based on the FC1178/FC1179 Controllers

Posted on 12/18/2020 by ACELab team

Hello friends! FirstChip Technology started its expansion on the Flash market a few years ago. Today, some of the modern USB Flash drives are based on the FC1178/FC1179 controllers. Data recovery from most of these devices can be intricate because … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, PC-3000 Flash | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

PC-3000 Portable III. Apple Macbook SSDs: the Supported Interface Types and Issues

Posted on 09/30/2020 by ACELab team

Hello friends! Over the past years the PCIe interface has become very common in Solid State drives. However, until 2020 it was not possible to recover data from such damaged SSD devices. The PCIe lines inside the PC-3000 Portable III … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, PC-3000 SSD | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

PC-3000 Portable III. Recovering Data from Logically Damaged Plextor PX-512M8SeY with a New PCIe x16 SSD Adapter

Posted on 09/16/2020 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! As you know, the PC-3000 Portable III supports the PCIe SSDs along with the SATA-based devices. Also, thanks to the new adapters and software updates, we constantly add new drives to the supported list. In September 2020, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Data Extractor, PC-3000 SSD | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

PC-3000 Flash. How to Recover Data from the NAND Flash Drives with the COB (Chip on Board) Memory Chips

Posted on 08/28/2020 by ACELab team

Hello friends! The COB (Chip On Board) memory chips present a challenge to data recovery engineers trying to recover data from them. The main obstacles lie in their internal structure: under the coating of black plastic, there is just a … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, PC-3000 Flash | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

PC-3000 Portable III. The Standalone Mode to Diagnose Drives, Create Sector-by-sector copies, and Erase Data Without a Host Computer

Posted on 08/12/2020 by ACELab team

Hello, guys! As you well know, our new PC-3000 Portable III tool has a built-in screen and it’s own Operating System, which allows communicating with connected drives without a host PC! In this article, we are going to find out … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, PC-3000 HDD, PC-3000 SSD, Video | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

PC-3000 Data Extractor. How to Merge a Sequence of Bin Files into One Image File

Posted on 07/22/2020 by ACELab team

Hello friends! Let’s imagine the following situation: After you have finished recovering data, you get only a sequence of binary files which contains recovered raw data that were deleted or corrupted (e.g. task.prm, map.bin, and other files related to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Data Extractor | 4 Comments

PC-3000 SAS. How to Change Sector size and Edit Power-on Hours.

Posted on 07/08/2020 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Some SAS drives have a limitation in their FW: they work for some time (Power-on Hours value written inside of FW), but when the time is over, the drive stops working no matter its condition. Also, some NAS … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, PC-3000 HDD | Leave a comment