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PC-3000 for HDD. RAM Head map editing on WD drives (non-system head case)

Posted on 07/31/2015 by ACELab team

In some cases a drive with one or more malfunctioning heads can finish the initialization process without any visible errors. But when we try to read user area it results in error and no user data can be read. For … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. How to unsolder TSOP-48\56 memory chips

Posted on 07/22/2015 by ACELab team

In this article we will try to describe the optimal way for NAND memory chip unsoldering in TSOP-48 or TSOP-56 package. Before you will start the whole procedure of unsoldering, you must be sure that you have all required tools, … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. The HOT SWAP procedure for Western Digital Marvell drives

Posted on 07/14/2015 by ACELab team

The “HOT SWAP” procedure can be used to restore logical access (i.e. an opportunity to read data using Data Extractor) in cases when system heads are inoperable (calibration procedure cannot be successfully completed because a drive is knocking and fails … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Page tranformation

Posted on 07/09/2015 by ACELab team

All the data stored in a flash microchip is divided into several categories: 1. Page (a group of sectors, 4-8-16 or more (varies from chip to chip)) 2. Block (a group of pages, 64-128-256-258 or more) 3. Bank (a group … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. First steps. (Part 3)

Posted on 07/08/2015 by ACELab team

This part is a continuation of part 2. We proceed to work with RAID array and focus on assembling RAID configuration in interactive mode. A quick introduction: Sometimes RAID array metadata are damaged or RAID has a non-standard configuration. Data Extractor … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. First steps. (Part 2)

Posted on 07/08/2015 by ACELab team

This part is a continuation of part 1. We continue working with a RAID array and focus on the auto-detection functionality in Data Extractor RAID Edition. RAID array parameters definition for user is tedious work that doesn’t need much creativity. For … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. First steps. (Part 1)

Posted on 07/08/2015 by ACELab team

Data Extractor RAID Edition and RAID data recovery. It’s time to start! The goal of this guide is to give you enough technical knoledge to learn how to work in Data Extractor RAID Edition. This is not intended to be … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 SSD. OCZ (Barefoot 3) family

Posted on 06/19/2015 by ACELab team

In this article, you will find a detailed description of data recovery from OCZ VECTOR drives based on Barefoot 3  IDX500Mxx controller. Supported drives: OCZ ARC  100 OCZ Vector OCZ Vector 150 OCZ Vector 180 OCZ Vertex 450 OCZ Vertex 460 OCZ Vertex 460A OCZ … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3 utility. Translator recovering on Seagate F3 drives

Posted on 06/11/2015 by ACELab team

The most popular problem of Seagate F3 drives it’s problem with Translator. Bassicaly such drives get access just to first part of users area, but the other part is unavailable for reading. Such behavior could be if Translation table have wrong defect … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 SSD. Samsung family

Posted on 06/11/2015 by ACELab team

In this video you will find detail description how to recover data from Samsung SSD drives based on different types and generation of  controllers. Also, this video contain information about functionality, options and different features whuich are presented in this Active Utility. … Continue reading →

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