Simple Hot-Swap method for Service Area access in Western Digital drives

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Usually the problem with drive initialization can be related to bad heads, damaged Service Area or media damage. How to bypass the initialization errors if RAM head map editing does not help, and get an access to patient Service Area with the original heads?

In this article we briefly review the method for Service Area access if WD drive can not start by itself, and we need to save the patient modules for Smart Hot-Swap. The procedure is very simple, but useful a lot for data recovery.

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PC-3000 HDD. Alternative method of password removing procedure on Hitachi ARM drives

Sometime users set a password on the drive then forgot it and can’t to get a data access.
What we can to do with such drives?

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In this article we would like to show you alternative method for users data access on password Hitachi ARM drives.

As we can see Techno key can’t be recognized and as result utility is not get an access to the drive.

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PC-3000 Flash. Terminology and numbering of signals

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A lot of customers have problems with reading monolith schemes in solution base. So, how to read them right and solder pins of memory chips to correct places on Circuit board adapter?

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PC-3000. How to Access Mapped Network Drives from the PC-3000 with the elevated privilegies.

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One of the significant improvements of Windows OSs (since Vista) is User Account Control (UAC) feature. User Account Control prompts the user for approval each time when the app tries to make any changes to the system settings. One of the side effects of UAC is the inability to access the mapped (over net use) network drives from the applications running in privileged mode (Run As Administrator). This means that when you run the command prompt or a file manager (like Total Commander) with elevated privileges, they won’t display the disk letters of the mounted network shares.

In this article we’ll show how to grant access to network drives from the PC-3000 run in elevated mode in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, or Windows Vista.

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to define RAID array from ‘boxes’ (WD Book Live Duo)

Sometimes we look weird cases where we can’t define RAID configuration via autodetection based on metadata and user data. More we can find nothing in RAW recovery (file carving).

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Step-by-step examination checklist

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In addition to note about basic Seagate F3 diagnostics below is step-by-step checklist for Seagate F3 drives examination:

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PC-3000 HDD. Hitachi ARM drives. Translator/Drive ID issue

Sometimes Hitachi ARM drives have problem with translation.
If you open Sector editor you can see the only part of users area.
For example drive have 1 953 525 168 LBAs, but you can see data only before 20 millions LBAs.
It’s a Translator issue.

For instance let’s consider the error.

Here we have Hitachi ARM drive with such problem.
We switch on power supply, but drive can’t be recognized in utility:

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Unlocking Self-Encrypting Drive.

 

In latest 6.1x release we added new breakthrough feature – Unlocking Self-Encrypting drives. People who visited our last conference in Prague already met with this feature in live. For others who didn’t attend the conference below are the description how this feature works.

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Interesting facts about actual maximum reading speed of HDDs

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Hard drive manufacturers and manufacturers of data recovery tools love to boast data transfer speeds. Unfortunately, many customers fall for this trick. Today we will tell you about the maximum speed of hardware in theory and in practice.

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WD drives: how to change the module position using “Move\Resize module” feature.

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In this small article we would like to show the update of Dir Editor – “MoveResize module” feature.

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