PC-3000 Flash. Image building with Block Number

Posted on 12/23/2016 by ACELab team

Nowadays exist a lot of different controllers which are using different types of markes in SA for sorting all blocks together. As everybody knows, sometimes we can use information about marker and build image with full folder structure if we will sort all blocks together, using information about order of blocks.

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A look back on RAID Recovery training sessions in the new ACE Lab training class

Posted on 12/21/2016 by ACELab team

The data recovery training class has been occupied since the first day ACE Lab opened the doors of the new office in Prague. Ten training sessions have been held so far, and more to come. As it is the biggest vendor-provided data recovery training venue, 12 people can learn cutting-edge technologies at the same time. The facility is a perfect venue for all types of data recovery training, covering HDD, RAID, SSD, NAND Flash, Monolith, Mobile, Chip-off training sessions, etc.

Over 25 people took part in the RAID Data Recovery Advanced Training sessions during one week between Nov 16-23, which were held right after the Grand Opening. Here’s a sneak peek at how it all looked and the impressions some of the trainees shared:

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to fix Init SMART Fail error

Posted on 12/19/2016 by ACELab team

Hi Friends!

How are you today?

As you know SMART is very useful thing. It provides detailed infomation about Hard Drive. However SMART is broken too.

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Do you see this error?

Init SMART Fail
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If yes then welcome under the cut 🙂

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PC-3000 Flash. Card Adapter and How to Work with It

Posted on 12/19/2016 by ACELab team

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Some users already have this adapter, others just think about purchasing.

In this article we would like to present PC-3000 Flash Card adapter and describe a working process with it. Please note that you need to have PC-3000 Flash software ver. 7.0.5 to use this adapter and others from the Monolith Set.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Western Digital. Module 30 access blocking in a case of locked FBLite drive.

Posted on 12/15/2016 by ACELab team

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Hello Friends! There are a few useful features were added in PC-3000 v6.2, and one of them is module 30 blocking in ROM. What is it and how does it work, we will discuss in this article.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Removing password for Samsung drives

Posted on 11/23/2016 by ACELab team

Hey all,

We have this problem when customers try to ‘crack’ Samsung drive and get access to data without user password. Pay attention that this procedure works for cases where the drive is protected by USER password. If any drive is protected by MASTER password and you don’t know it then you can format data not recover it.

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Windows Bitlocker, Apple FileVault, TrueCrypt

Posted on 11/09/2016 by ACELab team

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As you know there are different software that allow to encrypt users area.

Our developers proceed to research a ways for decrypt drives encrypted by software methods.

PC-3000 version 6.2.x allow to work with such encrypted drives and decrypt by special option in Data Extractor tool.

How to do it? – Welcome to this article!

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Module 03 restoration on WD DragFly4 as an example.

Posted on 11/03/2016 by ACELab team

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Hello Friends! Sometimes we meet the drives with damaged module 03. If we look at this module in modules table, we can see the description:
0003 Format Select Data Module, and it’s priority is As: unique for each HDD and critical for data access.

From Marvell manual we know:

 This module is present in some drives only. It was introduced in the Zeus drive family.
Before that the zone allocation table was built in the firmware and remained permanent
for each specific firmware version. Now that the recording density depends upon the quality of magnetic heads installed in each individual drive, practically every HDD has its own zone allocation table.
   If the original table and the table recorded in service area do not match, a drive will either freeze during start or it will be unable to read the user data. If the module gets lost, restoring it or picking from another drive does not seem possible.

So what to do if module 03 is damaged by all SA copies?
As you know, we added the automatic restoration of module 03 in PC-3000 v6.2.
Let’s see the possibility of restoration using DragFly4 drive as an example.

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. RAID Edition. How to extract data from RAID 10 in Data Extractor

Posted on 10/25/2016 by ACELab team

Hi,

I would like today give you some brief description of real case where we recovered data from RAID 10 with LVM. I will provide corner stone of this process and pay attention to small tricks with RAID Edition.

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How to hide BAD sectors at Seagate F3 drives

Posted on 10/17/2016 by ACELab team

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Below is the step-by-step guide how to hide BAD sectors at Seagate F3 drives – most typical task when repair BAD hard drives.

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