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From time to time we have to work with formatted drives. Most file systems have special rules for data recovery from formatted drives. Sometimes, we work with formatted RAID arrays. For RAID cases, there are different rules for data recovery, but the main principles are still the same.
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In 2018 our we received a lot of new NAND chips that were unreadable by the PC-3000 Flash reader of versions 1.0, 2.0 and even 3.0 without extended power supply adapter. Why that is the case, we will explain in today’s article!
As you all know, ONFI NAND chips usually require 3.3V. It’s a standard voltage value, which was used by default on almost all NAND Flash for the last 15 years. Continue reading
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Today we will talk about Silicon Motion SM2236G — one of the most popular Compact Flash card controller.
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Have you ever faced the situation when something happens during the drive’s reading proccess and you have to create a new task? In such a case, you will lose everything you’ve read before in Task 1. So, is there any chance to save it?
In this article, we will show you how to transfer the read data from one task to another.
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It’s often easy to get deceived by the manufacturer’s labels on HDDs and choose a wrong utility. In this article we show you some cases and help you to choose the correct utility for Hard Disk Drives.
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Today we would like to share a case study on how to deal with RAID5 if one of the drives is lost, and another one has serious scratches on the surface, so we cannot recover any data from it. Besides, we will show you how to deal with an array if 1 or 2 drives are missed, and there is the LVM2 structure on the array.
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We all know how to handle drives with bad modules or system files in the Service Area: fix them by writing good modules in place of bad ones. In the case of Western Digital drives, if the original modules contain physical bad sectors on their bodies, we move SA modules to a new area.
But what can you do to a Seagate F3 drive with a bad important system file Is it possible to move the file to another location? Let’s review that issue in this article.
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Data Extractor utility is a very powerful and flexible tool for data recovery. It has a lot of cool settings that make the imaging process easy and customizable.
In this article, we would like to talk about every option in the Settings window.
If you don’t own the Data Extractor and want to get one, please contact us here.
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Starting from the PC-3000 Flash 7.2.9 version, you’re able to use the automatic BadBytes cutting feature (Inserts, Addings, Bad Columns).
This new mode can help to significantly decrease the time of the manual BadBytes research and cutting. Please follow the link below to learn more on how to use this method in practice.
More about Bad Bytes are in our previous articles:
PC-3000 Flash. How to detect and eliminate addings (Inserts, Bad Columns) in dump
Very often when we work with different drives (especially with the AU controller and Sandisk) with a huge capacity (64gb and above), we are faced with a situation when the complete ECC correction and the readout process might take several hours.
PLEASE NOTE: We do not recommend you to use this method in all your further cases! Sometimes for getting a good result all blocks (even not filled at 100% with data) must be fixed! Otherwise, there might be a huge problem in the image building stage! We recommend using Reread Map Generator only for the most urgent cases when you don’t have enough time for good and complete ECC correction!
