During Seagate F3 drives data recovery process, engineers are often in need of donor heads. So how to find out the one compatible the most? There are different parameters that help to choose the correct donor head for a Head swap procedure. One of them is the Preamplifier version which is not always easy to determine. In today’s article, we are going to talk about 2 methods of doing that.
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In the past, we have already talked about solving SED problem on WD 2,5″ drives. All of you know that this solution should be applied only if at least one of system heads is able to write, otherwise module 02 may get broken and you might get another trouble on your hands.
Also, you’ve already learned Slow responding solution in RAM where we mentioned the possibility to ‘remove SED checkbox in RAM as well’. But in most cases, the HDD won’t give you a chance to start WD Utility at all due to the standard SED error message. Continue reading
In previous articles we have already discussed:
Today we publish the final article on the most cost-effective way to equip your lab for recovering data from USB Flash drives, SD, microSD, Memory Sticks (MS), xD, MMC, CF, Voice Reсorders, etc.
Here you will find the recommendations on the optimal solutions that can be useful for data recovery beginners. The final choice depends on your budget – there are a lot of cheap and expensive alternatives to the equipment listed below.
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Everybody knows, that Seagate F3 Rosewood drives are in many ways different from previous families.
First and foremost these drives come with a Physical Security ID, which guarantees that:
PC-3000 users are able to overcome the PSID by applying the solution for SED Seagate F3 drives.
Hello, friends! One of the most common issues in any HDD is a damage to one of the heads. Due to this reason the drive can not initialize and is unable to provide an access to Service and User Areas. In this article we show you what to do if one of heads is bad in Samsung drive and how to overcome this issue to get the data.
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In previous articles we have already discussed:
Now let’s talk about specific tools for HDD Data Recovery.
As you may know, Seagate F3 drives use different Defect-lists to hide defected sectors. These are single defect records and track-defect records.
On how to hide single defects you can read in this article. In the current article, we will talk about Track defects.
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As you may well know a new version of PC-3000 Flash 7.1.1 is available in personal update boxes for all customers with active Technical Support service.
In this article, we would like to tell you more about a new Intelligent ReRead Mode which has made its appearance in the recent update.
Attention! This feature works only with the PC-3000 Flash 4.0 and the PC-3000 Flash 3.0 (external power control adapter is required for the PC-3000 Flash 3.0)
Before you proceed to work with a flash case, you have to make 3 basic steps:
These steps are necessary because a high rate of bit errors may have a bad influence on user data and make data recovery impossible. The detailed procedure is described in our articles “PC-3000 Flash. Methods of data correction”. You can find them here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
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Hello, friends! At ACE Lab support we get a lot of questions concerning the decryption of Western Digital drives. A typical ticket looks like this: USB WD drive, changed the connection type to SATA as per this article, can’t see see any data in the Data Extractor…
In this article we will show how to decrypt the data in the Marvell utility, how to create a new task and how to access a data in the Data Extractor. Though, for experienced users this article is not obligatory.
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In today’s article we talk about BtrFS file system functionality of the Data Extractor RAID Edition.
