Data Extractor

PC-3000 for HDD. SSHD drives. What it is and how does it work.

Posted on 10/17/2017 by ACELab team

Technology does not stand still. More and more new drives of all types with new features appear every year. And they all do break just as well. Let’s talk about SSHD – the most popular device in data recovery branch. … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. The easier way to fix Init SMART Fail error

Posted on 09/21/2017 by ACELab team

Hello dear PC-3000 users! SMART has proven to be the powerful method for monitoring the state of the drive in need of repair. This system detects and reports on various indicators.is system detects and reports on various indicators. However, SMART is … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. How to shift the SA on Hitachi IBM drives

Posted on 07/21/2017 by ACELab team

Hi there, In this article, we are going to address the very common and troublesome issue of the damaged Service Area (SA) on Hitachi drives. We will show you a method of Hitachi IBM repair (for NOT ARMED drives). ATTENTION! … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. A practical example for FileVault decryption

Posted on 06/26/2017 by ACELab team

In this article, we will demonstrate using Data Extractor to identify encryption key location in the Macintosh system encrypted with FileVault. We will also share some tips and techniques for using Data Extractor for maximum effectiveness. For a basic introduction to … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3 arch. Manually Translator recovery procedure

Posted on 05/29/2017 by ACELab team

A lot of times PC-3000 owners asked us about sharing step-by-step guide. One of the often problems on Seagate F3 architecture drives is a Translator problem. Usually we try to regenerate Translator automatically (by Translator regeneration and Recovery translator procedures). Basically … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash Spider Board adapter. How to use it?

Posted on 05/29/2017 by ACELab team

During the Prague monolith meetup in March 2017 ACE Lab announced a new Spider Board adapter for convenient monolith reading. In this article we are going to describe the main features of this adapter and show example of MicroSD reading. PC-3000 … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Rebuilding NFTS partition with lost boot

Posted on 05/19/2017 by ACELab team

Hello friends, You know that we are living in the world where PCs can be infected with malware. The best-known example is WannaCry which infected many computers in different countries of the world. However, there are many other malware worms … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate drive of classical architecture and common issue

Posted on 04/24/2017 by ACELab team

Seagate is now the largest manufacturer of hard disk drives. So there are many families associated with Seagate. Some users select falimy randomly and get following output in the terminal: We will explain how to overcome this problem using PC-3000.

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PC-3000 DE. Overview of PC-3000 Data Extractor reports

Posted on 04/18/2017 by ACELab team

Sometimes data recovery engineer need to prepare a report for customer. We are going to overview what kind of reports can be provided by PC-3000.

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. NTFS partition manually expanding

Posted on 03/31/2017 by ACELab team

There are a lot of cases which alow to read a user data but it’s to slow or drive has a damaged surface at the start of users area, as result impossible to expand a user partition or it takes a … Continue reading →

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