PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Unlocking the Rosewood Drives.

Posted on 07/19/2017 by ACELab team

Hello, Friends! Today we are proud to present you the long-awaited solution to the very disturbing issue of recovering data from locked Seagate F3 Rosewood HDDs. The latest PC-3000 v.6.3.12 update brings you the ability to repair damaged Rosewood hard drives and extract data from them. In this article, we will show you how to access the Service and User Areas of your locked patient device in a few clicks.

Attention! Special Restrictions! Due to the fact that the FW has particular features, we strongly recommend that you do not apply Recount translator commands (both, ATA or terminal), Clear G-list, Reset S.M.A.R.T and spare heads in ROM commands. This will clear Media Cache and you might lose user data forever.

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. A practical example for FileVault decryption

Posted on 06/26/2017 by ACELab team

In this article, we will demonstrate using Data Extractor to identify encryption key location in the Macintosh system encrypted with FileVault. We will also share some tips and techniques for using Data Extractor for maximum effectiveness. For a basic introduction to the FileVault option, please refer to the Introducing.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Western Digital. Module 31 (translator) restoration if SA is full of BADs.

Posted on 06/15/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! All of us facing the problem during the work with Western Digital drives, when some of the important modules are damaged, and system heads can write, but the Service Area is full of bad sectors and it’s impossible to change the location of bad module because of that.

In this short article we will see how to fix module 31 using the Dir Editor in PC-3000 Marvell utility even if we can’t move the translator to another place in SA.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Hitachi ELSIL HCC drives unlocking

Posted on 05/31/2017 by ACELab team

Hello friends,

Many of you have encountered Hitachi HCCxxxx locked drives which were previously used in DVR. Those HDDs have different label with Elsil logo which is pasted above original Hitachi. If you connect such drive to PC it won’t be recognised via standart device manager…

Now we want to consider one of such examples and explain how to return it to normal conditions.

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3 arch. Manually Translator recovery procedure

Posted on 05/29/2017 by ACELab team

A lot of times PC-3000 owners asked us about sharing step-by-step guide.

One of the often problems on Seagate F3 architecture drives is a Translator problem.
Usually we try to regenerate Translator automatically (by Translator regeneration and Recovery translator procedures).
Basically case can be solved successfully and get an access to whole user area, but sometimes utility can’t hide a defects in to NRG-list properly as result we have a particualar access to the user area (from LBA0 till someone in the middle).

In this article we would like to describe how to hide defects manually, regenerate a translator and get an access to whole user area.

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PC-3000 Flash Spider Board adapter. How to use it?

Posted on 05/29/2017 by ACELab team

During the Prague monolith meetup in March 2017 ACE Lab announced a new Spider Board adapter for convenient monolith reading. In this article we are going to describe the main features of this adapter and show example of MicroSD reading.

PC-3000 Flash Spider Board Adapter is a universal solution for safe monolith recovery without tedious soldering! Using it you don’t need specific adapters to each monolith you deal with.

It is designed for connection to internal contacts of NAND-based Flash drives manufactured as single-package chips (monoliths). The adapter consists of 25 universal contacts that support software configuration of their association with NAND interface signals in a corresponding task.  Please note, that the adapter is supported by PC-3000 Flash Reader 4.0 only.

Watch the video below to have a complete overview of Spider Board adapter and example of MicroSD reading process:

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Rebuilding NFTS partition with lost boot

Posted on 05/19/2017 by ACELab team

Hello friends,

You know that we are living in the world where PCs can be infected with malware. The best-known example is WannaCry which infected many computers in different countries of the world. However, there are many other malware worms which execute on a system and target computer running.

Usually, malware exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows operation system where the NTFS file system is used in most cases. So we would like to give couple examples how Data Extractor can recover NTFS partition which was a target of malware attack.

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PC-3000 for HDD. How to handle “VSC ERR INV FUNC CODE REQ” error in 2,5″ WD drives.

Posted on 05/18/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! We all know that new Western Digital 2,5″ drives have some differences in their FW, so the common solutions don’t work for these drives.  In this article we will learn how to bypass the error when the drive can’t read it’s own Service Area due to a special SED issue.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate drive of classical architecture and common issue

Posted on 04/24/2017 by ACELab team

Seagate is now the largest manufacturer of hard disk drives. So there are many families associated with Seagate.

Some users select falimy randomly and get following output in the terminal:

We will explain how to overcome this problem using PC-3000.

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PC-3000 DE. Overview of PC-3000 Data Extractor reports

Posted on 04/18/2017 by ACELab team

Sometimes data recovery engineer need to prepare a report for customer. We are going to overview what kind of reports can be provided by PC-3000.

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