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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3. How to fix translator issue caused by useless defects in Non-Resident G-list

Dear Users, you are often facing with a problem when on Seagate F3 drives you can read sectors in the beginning of the drive but from certain LBA the drive is filled with UNC error and in Data Extractor sectors … Continue reading

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PC-3000 Flash / PC-3000 for HDD. Canon Video recovery

Canon cameras are very popular nowadays. A lot of people are buying them for making pictures and recording videos. As we know, usually a lot of wedding photographers and videographers are using them as main tool for shooting. We know … Continue reading

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NV-RAM head map editing in Hitachi drives

Hello friends! Sometimes we have an issue in Hitachi drives, when drive can’t start with ID and Service Area access, and of course without an access to user data. The reason can be in damaged Service Area modules, bad PCB, … Continue reading

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Changes in blog.acelaboratory.com authorization!

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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PC-3000 for HDD. How to convert USB drive to IDE interface

In this article we would like to talk about old 1.8″ Samsung drive HS25YJZ model name. This is real case of old Samsung drive which was solved by presented method. Probably you say: “Why I need convert it to IDE if … Continue reading

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PC-3000 for HDD. How to fix NVRAM issue on Hitachi IBM drives

Often Hitachi HDDs have a problem with the damaged NVRAM. In this article we would like to show the method of fixing such issue.

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Simple Hot-Swap method for Service Area access in Western Digital drives

Usually the problem with drive initialization can be related to bad heads, damaged Service Area or media damage. How to bypass the initialization errors if RAM head map editing does not help, and get an access to patient Service Area with the original … Continue reading

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PC-3000 HDD. Alternative method of password removing procedure on Hitachi ARM drives

Sometime users set a password on the drive then forgot it and can’t to get a data access. What we can to do with such drives? In this article we would like to show you alternative method for users data … Continue reading

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Step-by-step examination checklist

In addition to note about basic Seagate F3 diagnostics below is step-by-step checklist for Seagate F3 drives examination:

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PC-3000 HDD. Hitachi ARM drives. Translator/Drive ID issue

Sometimes Hitachi ARM drives have problem with translation. If you open Sector editor you can see the only part of users area. For example drive have 1 953 525 168 LBAs, but you can see data only before 20 millions … Continue reading

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