Data Extractor

F.A.Q. about Burn resources

Posted on 07/28/2016 by ACELab team

What is the Burn resources ? Burn resources – the set of test microprograms and modules necessary to pass the Burn test as well as the Main Code portion of a drive’s firmware Burn (also know as Burn-In) test is intended … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. Solution for LaCie Big 4 Quadra Raid 5 case

Posted on 07/20/2016 by ACELab team

The LaCie Big 4 Quadra is the most complete 4-bay RAID solution for professionals who demand exceptional performance from a storage device. There are adtantages of the LaCie 4big Quadra Speed and security for audio, video, and photo professionals; Huge … Continue reading →

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Changes in blog.acelaboratory.com authorization!

Posted on 07/06/2016 by ACELab team

Dear PC-3000 Owners! We launched our ACE Lab Blog  over a year ago, and now we have a huge number of articles with helpful data recovery tips and detailed description of different issues that a data recovery engineer may face. Many of you agree that the ACE Lab Blog contains … Continue reading →

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How to find original NV-RAM image at SA of Hitachi-IBM drive if there is no NVRC module

Posted on 07/06/2016 by ACELab team

As you may know, if you lost original PCB or NV-RAM data you can recover SA access by running NV-RAM adjustement feature. This feature trying different SA Top (top SA cylinder number) values within specified range and find correct value. But as … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Simple logical recovery cases.

Posted on 06/24/2016 by ACELab team

People who apply for data recovery services, are often asked to return the data from the partition that “suddenly disappeared”. Reasons of data loss can be very different: power and microcode failures of drive, failed experiments with drive reallocation, viruses … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. Case study. Data recovery from a typical Linux RAID

Posted on 06/24/2016 by ACELab team

Initial data from the customer: 10 drives

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to define RAID array from ‘boxes’ (WD Book Live Duo)

Posted on 05/13/2016 by ACELab team

Sometimes we look weird cases where we can’t define RAID configuration via autodetection based on metadata and user data. More we can find nothing in RAW recovery (file carving).

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Unlocking Self-Encrypting Drive.

Posted on 04/27/2016 by ACELab team

  In latest 6.1x release we added new breakthrough feature – Unlocking Self-Encrypting drives. People who visited our last conference in Prague already met with this feature in live. For others who didn’t attend the conference below are the description how this feature works.

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Interesting facts about actual maximum reading speed of HDDs

Posted on 04/25/2016 by ACELab team

Hard drive manufacturers and manufacturers of data recovery tools love to boast data transfer speeds. Unfortunately, many customers fall for this trick. Today we will tell you about the maximum speed of hardware in theory and in practice.

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PC-3000 and Digital Forensics

Posted on 04/22/2016 by ACELab team

The PC-3000 Systems are considered to be the most cutting-edge solutions for diagnosis, repair and data recovery from damaged storage devices. The PC-3000 products have a lot of powerful functions that can be successfully used in the digital forensics field. The PC-3000 tools … Continue reading →

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