Data Extractor

3 Ways to Find the Lost Partitions

Posted on 12/10/2019 by ACELab team

People who ask for data recovery services often request to recover data from a “lost” partition. The reasons for such loss can vary a lot: drive malfunctions, unsuccessful attempts to disk space allocation, viruses, etc.  Today we will try to … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 SSD. Sandisk Ultra II, SSD Plus and WD Blue (Marvell CPU)

Posted on 10/17/2019 by ACELab team

Hello friends! Marvell-based controllers are amongst the most complex in the data recovery field. The thing is Marvell company produces only controllers with templates of drive PCB design, basic (default factory) firmware and recommendations on how the SSD should work. … Continue reading →

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Making Complex Issues Simple: A Unique Method to Extract Data from RAID with Lost Configuration

Posted on 08/01/2019 by ACELab team

Hello everyone! Today we would like to talk about RAID arrays with lost configuration and how to extract data from them. This article will be useful to both digital forensics experts and data recovery engineers. Let’s start with understanding what … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. APFS. Part 1

Posted on 06/04/2019 by ACELab team

Hello friends, As you well know file systems play a crucial role in data recovery. And there were a lot of them developed during the past 30-40 years. Some file systems are specific to a particular operating system. For example, … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor RAID Edition. Case Study: Surprise from the Apple Company

Posted on 04/02/2019 by ACELab team

Hi everyone, How often do you use Data Extractor RAID Edition to recover data from RAID arrays? How often do you use statistics to define the configuration and recover data from this configuration? We won’t dig too much into the … Continue reading →

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How to Correctly Save Data from Time Machine on HFS+ Partition

Posted on 02/22/2019 by ACELab team

Time Machine is the standard backup software application in macOS. Time Machine makes hourly backups of the last 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month. It makes backups until the … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 RAID Edition. Case study: Data Recovery from RAID – As Easy As 1-2-3.

Posted on 01/29/2019 by ACELab team

Hello Friends, From time to time we have to work with formatted drives. Most file systems have special rules for data recovery from formatted drives. Sometimes, we work with formatted RAID arrays. For RAID cases, there are different rules for … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. New Low Voltage NAND Chips and How to Read Them

Posted on 01/18/2019 by ACELab team

Hello guys! In 2018 our we received a lot of new NAND chips that were unreadable by the PC-3000 Flash reader of versions 1.0, 2.0 and even 3.0 without extended power supply adapter. Why that is the case, we will … Continue reading →

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Data Extractor: How to Merge Tasks

Posted on 12/25/2018 by ACELab team

Hello friends! Have you ever faced the situation when something happens during the drive’s reading proccess and you have to create a new task? In such a case, you will lose everything you’ve read before in Task 1. So, is … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor RAID Edition. Case Study: RAID5 with 1 Drive Lost

Posted on 11/26/2018 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Today we would like to share a case study on how to deal with RAID5 if one of the drives is lost, and another one has serious scratches on the surface, so we cannot recover any data from … Continue reading →

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