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

Posted on 04/22/2016 by ACELab team

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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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PC-3000 and Digital Forensics

Posted on 04/22/2016 by ACELab team

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The PC-3000 Systems are considered to be the most cutting-edge solutions for diagnosis, repair and data recovery from damaged storage devices.

The PC-3000 products have a lot of powerful functions that can be successfully used in the digital forensics field. The PC-3000 tools are often indispensable for cybercrime investigation. Even if a storage device is physically damaged, the investigative or/and judicial practice becomes possible due to the PC-3000 solutions.

When digital evidence is required, it’s sometimes impossible to get access to the data from damaged or password-locked drives. PC-3000 Systems help to make the data accessible for the operation system to proceed with crime investigation. It is true fact that the PC-3000 solutions possess a powerful potential for helping forensic experts in their every-day work with damaged storage devices.

Below are some features that can be helpful for evidence collection.

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to find RAID configuration based on user files in Data Extractor RAID Edition

Posted on 04/13/2016 by ACELab team

For some complex RAID cases ata Extractor RAID Edition has feature which allows to determine RAID configuration based on user files.Zip

Theory and methodology.
Let’s look into .zip files. They contain two types of data:
– zip metadata (structures which describe archive content, file names, size etc.)
– compressed files stored in archive.

Zip metadata are attractive to define RAID configuration:
– we can find them based on specific signature (0x504B0304)
– structures have simple periodical pattern.

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PC-3000 DE. Operations with maps in Data Extractor and bad sectors in MFT map

Posted on 04/12/2016 by ACELab team

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Data Extractor supports following operations with map:
– Merge (two) maps;
– Intersection (two) maps;
– Merge (two) maps without crossing;
– Cut (another) map (from current);
– Compress map;
– Inversion map.

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PC-3000 HDD. Toshiba drives specific diagnostics

Posted on 03/31/2016 by ACELab team

In the Basic HDD diagnostics procedure post we looked at the common steps of diagnostics for any HDD.

Now we will look at the specific steps of diagnostics of Toshiba drives.

In this article we will discuss the typical situations on Toshiba drives.
There are a different Toshiba drives form-factor:
3.5″, 2.5″, 1.8″

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PC-3000 for HDD. Boot ROM mode (COM port) in WD utility for 3.5″ and 2.5″ drives.

Posted on 03/31/2016 by ACELab team

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Sometimes we need to write or read the ROM image, but PCB or SATA adapter are damaged.

There is a way to work with ROM using a special mode – Boot ROM.

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PC-3000 Flash. How to work with the problem memory chips.

Posted on 03/21/2016 by ACELab team

There are a lot of different memory chips with reading problems such as not corrected ECC errors, dump filled by “FF” or other pattern etc.

In this article we would like to talk about different problematic memory chips and solutions for them.

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PC-3000 Flash. Grinding MicroSD with the help of Fibreglass Pen Brush

Posted on 03/21/2016 by ACELab team

When we are speaking about monolith drive preparing for soldering, we should remember about one of the most important steps – grinding.

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Grinding – is a special process of compound erasing from the bottom side of monolith device. During this process, engineer have to be very careful, because he can damage the cupper layer and make further monolith recovery absolutely impossible.

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3. SMP flags issue

Posted on 03/01/2016 by ACELab team

A lot of Seagate F3 drives have a problem with LED errors, RWerror problems or just stay in BSY state.
In this article we would like to consider the popular solution for such cases.
Here is Seagate Grenada drive with BSY state and LED:BD error in terminal report.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3 architecture drives specific diagnostics

Posted on 02/12/2016 by ACELab team

In the Basic HDD diagnostics procedure post we looked at the common steps of diagnostics for any HDD.

Now we will look at the specific steps of diagnostics of Seagate F3 architecture drives.

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In this article we will discuss the most typical situations and scenarios of Seagate F3 drives diagnostics. We will not dive deep into the solutions since it can make this article endless. We just point out the way to understand the specific issue. Continue reading →

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