F.A.Q. about Burn resources

Posted on 07/28/2016 by ACELab team

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What is the Burn resources ?

Burn resources – the set of test microprograms and modules necessary to pass the Burn test as well as the Main Code portion of a drive’s firmware

Burn (also know as Burn-In) test is intended to build the service area, configure adaptive settings, scan the surface and reassign defects. Burn test is the factory procedure specifically used for the greater part of drive fine-tuning and diagnostics.

Important note: you can’t get such resources from the drive like a loader at WD drives, it’s a special compiled firmware.

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. Solution for LaCie Big 4 Quadra Raid 5 case

Posted on 07/20/2016 by ACELab team

The LaCie Big 4 Quadra is the most complete 4-bay RAID solution for professionals who demand exceptional performance from a storage device.

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There are adtantages of the LaCie 4big Quadra

  • Speed and security for audio, video, and photo professionals;
  • Huge capacity for backing up all of your data;
  • Quadruple interface for universal connectivity;
  • Four hot-swappable, lockable disks for non-stop data access;
  • Ultra-quiet cooling system for greater reliability.

However it’s really difficult to get back the data when RAID array is failed.

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NV-RAM head map editing in Hitachi drives

Posted on 07/06/2016 by ACELab team

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Hello friends! Sometimes we have an issue in Hitachi drives, when drive can’t start with ID and Service Area access, and of course without an access to user data. The reason can be in damaged Service Area modules, bad PCB, heads, platter surfaces or in bad/not original NV-RAM.

In this article we will briefly review how to modify the NV-RAM in order to make the drive start from one head and read the data by this one head only.

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Changes in blog.acelaboratory.com authorization!

Posted on 07/06/2016 by ACELab team

Dear PC-3000 Owners!

We launched our ACE Lab Blog  over a year ago, and now we have a huge number of articles with helpful data recovery tips and detailed description of different issues that a data recovery engineer may face.

Many of you agree that the ACE Lab Blog contains exceptionally valuable information for the PC-3000 users.

Supporting the PC-3000 Owners in mastering the best data recovery techniques, we make our Blog open only for the official PC-3000 Owners.

Starting from the 6th of July, 2016, only the official PC-3000 Owners can get access to all the information in our Blog. The Blog becomes partially closed for non-registered users.2

Some of the articles will still remain open for everyone. (Marked with green color in the List of Articles)

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How to find original NV-RAM image at SA of Hitachi-IBM drive if there is no NVRC module

Posted on 07/06/2016 by ACELab team

As you may know, if you lost original PCB or NV-RAM data you can recover SA access by running NV-RAM adjustement feature.

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This feature trying different SA Top (top SA cylinder number) values within specified range and find correct value.

But as you may know, despite SA Top there is SRVM Cyl Base value. It affects to translator so without correct SRVM Cyl base you wouldn’t get access to user data.

At some drives you can also brute force SRVM Cyl base via NV-RAM adjustement feature. But at some drives it’s impossible at all. What to do in this case?

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SSD manufacturers, SSD controllers, and a couple of words about the future trends

Posted on 07/05/2016 by ACELab team

When we go to an electronic mall to buy a new SSD, we usually think: which model and brand should I choose? We may feel confused because there are a lot of well-known brands, like Intel and Samsung, and at the same time there are such “noname” brands as SmartBuy, ADATA, Silicon Power, and others. What’s the difference between brands and models? In speed? Stability?

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PC-3000 for HDD. How to convert USB drive to IDE interface

Posted on 06/28/2016 by ACELab team

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In this article we would like to talk about old 1.8″ Samsung drive HS25YJZ model name.

This is real case of old Samsung drive which was solved by presented method.

Probably you say: “Why I need convert it to IDE if I can to do it to SATA?”

So, let’s begin 🙂

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Simple logical recovery cases.

Posted on 06/24/2016 by ACELab team

People who apply for data recovery services, are often asked to return the data from the partition that “suddenly disappeared”.

Reasons of data loss can be very different: power and microcode failures of drive, failed experiments with drive reallocation, viruses and so on. In this article we will try to understand why we can’t see the data and how it can be restored via DataExtractor features.

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. Case study. Data recovery from a typical Linux RAID

Posted on 06/24/2016 by ACELab team

Initial data from the customer: 10 drives

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PC-3000 for HDD. How to fix NVRAM issue on Hitachi IBM drives

Posted on 06/13/2016 by ACELab team

Often Hitachi HDDs have a problem with the damaged NVRAM.
In this article we would like to show the method of fixing such issue.

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