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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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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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What is the difference between physical and logical sectors and why some sector is read via PC-3000 utility but not read via DE ?

Posted on 02/02/2017 by ACELab team

Some of our users don’t understand what this confirmation screen means when starting a task in Data Extractor or even can make false conclusions. Specially for them we wrote this article 🙂

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How to read ROM via programmer device

Posted on 01/30/2017 by ACELab team

Sometimes you can’t read ROM via PC3000 due to PCB damage. In some situation you need to unsolder the chip and use programmer device to read ROM content. In this tutorial we will show how to do it.

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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 How to recover data from RAID 5 on 3 drives where one drive has outdated data (we don’t know which one)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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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. Removing password for Samsung drives

Posted on 11/23/2016 by ACELab team

Hey all, We have this problem when customers try to ‘crack’ Samsung drive and get access to data without user password. Pay attention that this procedure works for cases where the drive is protected by USER password. If any drive … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Windows Bitlocker, Apple FileVault, TrueCrypt

Posted on 11/09/2016 by ACELab team

As you know there are different software that allow to encrypt users area. Our developers proceed to research a ways for decrypt drives encrypted by software methods. PC-3000 version 6.2.x allow to work with such encrypted drives and decrypt by … Continue reading →

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