Data Extractor

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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Running PC-3000 at Linux host via VirtualBox

Posted on 03/17/2017 by ACELab team

  Some customers are asking us is it possible to run PC-3000 under Linux.  We decided to make some testing and answer on this question. For the lazy and busy: yes, it’s possible. But performance will be 4-5 times less. If you’d … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Data shift happens

Posted on 03/01/2017 by ACELab team

This article is not about a cooperative platformer, even not about popular racing video game. It’s about shifted data and method for fixing it in PC-3000 Data Extractor utility.

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