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PC-3000 HDD. Nontypical HDD recovery. Playstation 3 Slim

Posted on 02/22/2017 by ACELab team

Sony Playstation 3 was a revolutionary console system, which became one of the first playing systems perfect not only for games, but also for storing and viewing digital media content. Lucky for powerful CPU IBM CELL and BlueRay drive, PS3 became … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 SAS. HGST. How to find the problem of a bad head

Posted on 02/13/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends. Recently we have faced the issue with one HGST SAS drive, which started with almost full ID, but no capacity in ID and no LBA access. In this short article we briefly review how to find what is … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 on Macbook. A “small” guide how to make your own Apple-based portable workstation

Posted on 01/18/2017 by ACELab team

A lot of ACE Lab customers from Europe and North America region ask us about possibility to install PC-3000 Flash or PC-3000 Portable on their MAC computers. These laptops provide good performance, they are quite light-weight, and finally – they … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Practical cases. How to get the Service Area access if one of non-system heads is damaged.

Posted on 01/18/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Sometimes we get the Seagate F3 drives which are clicking and don’t read the Service Area at all initially. It can be because of bad head(s), damaged/not original  PCB and ROM, and bad Service Area modules. In this … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to recover data from RAID 5 on 3 drives where one drive has outdated data (we don’t know which one)

Posted on 01/13/2017 by ACELab team

Hello friends, Data recovery can be simple when we know RAID configuration (level, block size, start of striping, delay) and all RAID members have valid data (user data without any modifications). Unfortunately, we often find ourselves in less than perfect circumstances, … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 HDD. Nontypical HDD recovery. iPod Video

Posted on 01/10/2017 by ACELab team

There are lot of nontypical devices like media stations, different recorders, cameras, audio players, etc which are based on nontypical drives. Here is a real case of hard drive (!!!) from iPod Video 30 Gb. Such players (5th generation) was … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Monolith pinout determination guide. Variant 2

Posted on 12/29/2016 by ACELab team

This familiarization article doesn’t contain nuances of technical procedure and can’t cover ends and outs of pinout determination. So if you don’t have practice in monolith soldering then we advise to play for safety and don’t start it. This process … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Image building with Block Number

Posted on 12/23/2016 by ACELab team

Nowadays exist a lot of different controllers which are using different types of markes in SA for sorting all blocks together. As everybody knows, sometimes we can use information about marker and build image with full folder structure if we … Continue reading →

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A look back on RAID Recovery training sessions in the new ACE Lab training class

Posted on 12/21/2016 by ACELab team

The data recovery training class has been occupied since the first day ACE Lab opened the doors of the new office in Prague. Ten training sessions have been held so far, and more to come. As it is the biggest … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to fix Init SMART Fail error

Posted on 12/19/2016 by ACELab team

Hi Friends! How are you today? As you know SMART is very useful thing. It provides detailed infomation about Hard Drive. However SMART is broken too. Do you see this error? Init SMART Fail LED:000000CC FAddr:xxxxxxxx If yes then welcome … Continue reading →

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