Hello Friends!
From time to time we get the questions from our customers, especially from the beginners: how to fix the bad modules in Service Area?
Some modules can be fixed using the PC-3000 commands like translator regeneration, for example. But what to do if the drive has the bad sectors in SA, and some important module can not read good? Let’s discuss it in this article.
There are a lot of cases which alow to read a user data but it’s to slow or drive has a damaged surface at the start of users area, as result impossible to expand a user partition or it takes a lot of time.
But how to deal with such cases if customer needs his data right here right now or we have a time restriction by drive operation because it proceed to damage the heads/surface…
In this article we will talk about this problem and possible solutions for it.
Hello Friends,
Some family of Seagate F3 drives has specific issue which you wil not see on other families. One of these issues we would like to show today.
Some customers are asking us is it possible to run PC-3000 under Linux. We decided to make some testing and answer on this question.
For the lazy and busy: yes, it’s possible. But performance will be 4-5 times less. If you’d like to know why – you are welcome to read further.
Hello Friends! Recently we’ve got a case where we saw the next message in utility terminal tab after drive’s power on:
MCMTFileHandler: EXCEPTION: Failed MCMT read request
We see such cases pretty often here in support, so let’s see what can be done to bypass this error and get the full drive’s ID and user data access.
This article is not about a cooperative platformer, even not about popular racing video game. It’s about shifted data and method for fixing it in PC-3000 Data Extractor utility.
This article provides a simple method for disk original size making and the analysis of hidden sectors, those LBAs undetected or improperly detected by PC-3000 or another software.
The difference between “models” sectors (shown in Drive ID) and “the real world” sectors (from ones you can get data) lies largery in hidden part of user area.
This hidden areas can be used by drive or reserved for defect lists. But this sectors can be created by decreasing of Max LBA.
This article proposes a quick approach to detect and uncover those sectors.
Sony Playstation 3 was a revolutionary console system, which became one of the first playing systems perfect not only for games, but also for storing and viewing digital media content. Lucky for powerful CPU IBM CELL and BlueRay drive, PS3 became one of the most popular gaming systems.
A huge number of owners use Playstation 3 as a universal media system – GeForce-based video chip inside PS3 allows to make a render of FullHD video and pictures. As we know, FullHD resolution is the most popular nowadays, so Playstation 3 is very up-to-date even nowadays!
But when we speak about Playstation 3 content which is stored on internal HDD, we shouldn’t forget about full hardware encryption. So, if something happens to PS3 Hard Drive, data recovery from it might be pretty complicated.
In this article we will show how to recover data from internal PC3 HDD, and how to bypass encryption on it.
Hello Friends. Recently we have faced the issue with one HGST SAS drive, which started with almost full ID, but no capacity in ID and no LBA access. In this short article we briefly review how to find what is the problem in this current case.
There are Flash cases with a controller chip hidden by compound or erased text on it or the case is based on internal controller chip.
Such cases with Noname or hidden controller might be: USB Flash drives, SD and microSD digital cards.
So, there are a tricks for working with such cases.
What to do? – let’s discuss in this article.
