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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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Very often we get a question about “Using donor stored resources” feature for Hitachi IBM-ARM drives. How it can be used?
Let’s take a look one real case with real issue which we’ve faced several times for the recent past.
First off all we have Toshiba DT01ACA050 drive in this case. Not all our customers know that in fact DT01ACA model (and some other Toshiba drives too) are related to Hitachi! And it can be easily determined:
On the label we see HDS721050DLE630 (Also original model you can find in IDNT module). Therefore we should choose 7210DLE6 family to operate with this drive properly. Continue reading
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Before we will start, a small description:
This article was planned as a short guide for monolith pinout research. The main idea of this article is not to study step-by-step how to search pinout in all possible cases, but to understand the main principle and main idea of this process which is rather complicated and required a lot of experience. In other words – this article is posted “as it is”. We don’t want to say that current example is the best one, and all tools and hints that we are describing would be the best choiсe in the world. Exist a lot of methodics, and we are going to share only one of them.
PC-3000 products are produced for data recovery, but monolith pinout research is additional branch (rather large by the way) which is not contact with our technology directly. It’s the additional market, with it’s own “underwater rocks”, problems and profits. That’s why we provide only overview information, for better understanding and realizing “Do I really want to spend my life for dealing with this pinout research or not?”
