PC-3000 HDD

PC-3000 for HDD. Hitachi IBM-ARM – capacity issue MB (2)

Posted on 04/18/2017 by ACELab team

Hello dear friends, Very often we get a question about “Using donor stored resources” feature for Hitachi IBM-ARM drives. How it can be used? Let’s take a look one real case with real issue which we’ve faced several times for … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for beginners. How to fix the SA module if we have two damaged copies of it.

Posted on 04/17/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! From time to time we get the questions from our customers, especially from the beginners: how to fix the bad modules in Service Area? Some modules can be fixed using the PC-3000 commands like translator regeneration, for example. … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to fix SIM Error 1009 RW Error 00000080 on Sentosa family

Posted on 03/27/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends, Some family of Seagate F3 drives has specific issue which you wil not see on other families. One of these issues we would like to show today.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. “MCMTFileHandler: EXCEPTION: Failed MCMT read request” error and how to fix it.

Posted on 03/17/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Recently we’ve got a case where we saw the next message in utility terminal tab after drive’s power on: MCMTFileHandler: EXCEPTION: Failed MCMT read request We see such cases pretty often here in support, so let’s see what … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to Stop Worrying and Set Max LBA

Posted on 02/27/2017 by ACELab team

This article provides a simple method for disk original size making and the analysis of hidden sectors, those LBAs undetected or improperly detected by PC-3000 or another software. The difference between “models” sectors (shown in Drive ID) and “the real … Continue reading →

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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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PC-3000 on Macbook. A “small” guide how to make your own Apple-based portable workstation

Posted on 01/18/2017 by ACELab team

A lot of ACE Lab customers from Europe and North America region ask us about possibility to install PC-3000 Flash or PC-3000 Portable on their MAC computers. These laptops provide good performance, they are quite light-weight, and finally – they … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Practical cases. How to get the Service Area access if one of non-system heads is damaged.

Posted on 01/18/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Sometimes we get the Seagate F3 drives which are clicking and don’t read the Service Area at all initially. It can be because of bad head(s), damaged/not original  PCB and ROM, and bad Service Area modules. In this … Continue reading →

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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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