Data Extractor

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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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Practical advices and Settings Menu Dive In

Posted on 10/12/2018 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Data Extractor utility is a very powerful and flexible tool for data recovery. It has a lot of cool settings that make the imaging process easy and customizable. In this article, we would like to talk about every option … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to Recover Data from Apple Fusion Drive

Posted on 09/04/2018 by ACELab team

Hello friends! Apple Fusion drive is a logical (virtual) disk with a file system. In this article we will show you the process of data recovery from Apple Fusion Drive which is based on the building of these logical disk … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Apple FileVault Drive Encryption: Issues and Solutions

Posted on 07/11/2018 by ACELab team

FileVault is a high-end disk encryption program used in Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Most of the Apple’s products that came out after 2003 use FileVault to provide users with a reliable tool to decrypt home folders and personal … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3. How to Change the Model Name and S/N

Posted on 07/04/2018 by ACELab team

Hello friends! Did you ever face the situation when you need to change the Model name and/or Serial number of Seagate F3 drives? It’s useful when different DVR systems, game consoles, etc.  do not accept the non-native drives because of … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. Where is my data on VMFS? (Practical case)

Posted on 05/11/2018 by ACELab team

We all love Virtual machines. They allow us to find the balance between scale and consolidated environment and help us to decrease the resources required for a proper functionality. VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System is a high-performance cluster file … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to build a RAID array using the Ext4 file system metadata

Posted on 04/06/2018 by ACELab team

Ext4 (fourth extended filesystem) is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as a successor to ext3. Ext4 is very scalable: the maximum file system would consume one million 1-terabyte (TB) disks. Ext4 replaces the traditional block mapping scheme used … Continue reading →

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