PC-3000 HDD

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. Seagate F3. How to fix Init SMART Fail error

Posted on 12/19/2016 by ACELab team

Hi Friends! How are you today? As you know SMART is very useful thing. It provides detailed infomation about Hard Drive. However SMART is broken too. Do you see this error? Init SMART Fail LED:000000CC FAddr:xxxxxxxx If yes then welcome … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Western Digital. Module 30 access blocking in a case of locked FBLite drive.

Posted on 12/15/2016 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! There are a few useful features were added in PC-3000 v6.2, and one of them is module 30 blocking in ROM. What is it and how does it work, we will discuss in this article.

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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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Module 03 restoration on WD DragFly4 as an example.

Posted on 11/03/2016 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Sometimes we meet the drives with damaged module 03. If we look at this module in modules table, we can see the description: 0003 Format Select Data Module, and it’s priority is As: unique for each HDD and … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Samsung HDD. How to work with BURN

Posted on 10/10/2016 by ACELab team

In the previous article regarding BURN resources we are talked about general things and what a types of BURN resources we can upload to Samsung HDDs. In this article we will talk about a real Samsung case which is require … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Samsung. Full Hot-Swap for data access.

Posted on 10/03/2016 by ACELab team

In previous article we have seen the method of Simple Hot-Swap for Service Area access in a case when we need to get an access to modules. Let’s see now how to get an access to data using the modules we … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 HDD. Samsung. Simple Hot-Swap for Service Area access.

Posted on 10/03/2016 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Sometimes during the work with Samsung drives we may need an access to Service Area to check if all modules are good, and make a backup, for Full Hot-Swap, for example. One of ways of Service Area reaching … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Western Digital. The decryption of encrypted image.

Posted on 09/21/2016 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! All of us can face the situation when we forgot to select the “Decrypt” checkbox in Data Extractor settings: and read the part of data or the whole image encripted via the SATA interface. How to decrypt the … Continue reading →

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