PC-3000 Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to Recover Data from Apple Fusion Drive

Posted on 09/04/2018 by ACELab team

Hello friends!

Apple Fusion drive is a logical (virtual) disk with a file system. In this article we will show you the process of data recovery from Apple Fusion Drive which is based on the building of these logical disk and file system.

Outlined below is a procedure of recovering data from Fusion Drive:

  1. Append both drives to the task;
  2. Run the Autodetection on metadata in RAID configuration mode;
  3. ‘SPECIAL — Apple CS Pool‘ should be detected, you have to create this array;
  4. Scan metadata on the created array, there the ‘Virtual Drive – MAP’ will be found;
  5. The Virtual Drive should have the HFS+ file system, and user data is stored in this file system.

Let’s take a closer look at these steps.

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PC-3000 SSD. Silicon Motion (SM) Utility

Posted on 08/08/2018 by ACELab team

In this article we will speak about data recovery from SSD drives based on Silicon Motion SM controllers. This types of CPU are very popular and usually they are using in a wide number of different value and low-level solid state drives.

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PC-3000 SSD. Phison Utility

Posted on 08/08/2018 by ACELab team

Starting from PC-3000 6.3x and PC-3000 SSD 2.4.4, it’s become possible to work with Phison-based drives.

Right now the list of supported models includes the following cpu modifications:

  • Phison PS3105 (all modifications and all models);
  • Phison PS3108-S8 (all modifications and all models);
  • Phison PS3109-S9 (all modifications and all models);
  • Phison PS3110-S10 (all modifications and all models);
  • Toshiba TC58NC1000 (OCZ modifications);
  • Phison PS3111-S11 (all modifications and all models);
  • Toshiba TC58NC1010 (all modifications and all models);
  • Kingston CP33238B (all modifications and all models);

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Apple FileVault Drive Encryption: Issues and Solutions

Posted on 07/11/2018 by ACELab team

FileVault is a high-end disk encryption program used in Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Most of the Apple’s products that came out after 2003 use FileVault to provide users with a reliable tool to decrypt home folders and personal data. And FileVault does the job well by preventing unauthorized access to encrypted hard drives content. No data recovery specialist without the right tools and special knowledge will be able to access the data on an Apple computer.

Cases, when the encrypted hard drive is damaged to boot may present a serious challenge even to a skilled professional. In this article, we will describe an algorithm of bypassing FileVault protection and give some tips on recovering data from damaged encrypted Apple hard drives.

Below is a schematic diagram of the FileVault encryption method:

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3. How to Change the Model Name and S/N

Posted on 07/04/2018 by ACELab team

Hello friends!

Did you ever face the situation when you need to change the Model name and/or Serial number of Seagate F3 drives?

It’s useful when different DVR systems, game consoles, etc.  do not accept the non-native drives because of the verification procedure – e.g. the S/N of the drive doesn’t match the internal one (which is stored in the Firmware of the device).

In today’s article, we will describe how to change these values on the Seagate F3 arch. drives.

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PС-3000 Flash. AU6989 and AU6998: XORed inserts

Posted on 06/01/2018 by ACELab team

Hello, friends!

This article continues the topic of building a good folder structure for AU6989 and AU6998 in PC-3000 Flash.

As you probably know, there are a lot of cases when we can’t determine the ECC because of the insertions. Usually, even the ordinary insertions caused a lot of problems. So, what to do if they are XORed?

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3. How to Deal With SenseCode = 87270000 Error.

Posted on 05/18/2018 by ACELab team

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Seagate drives are very popular, but they also have a lot of issues in their FW. In this article we will show you how to resolve one such issue: a strange SenseCode = 87270000 error, and get a full data access.

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. Where is my data on VMFS? (Practical case)

Posted on 05/11/2018 by ACELab team

We all love Virtual machines. They allow us to find the balance between scale and consolidated environment and help us to decrease the resources required for a proper functionality.

VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System is a high-performance cluster file system that provides storage virtualization that is optimized for virtual machines.

This picture (from https://www.vmware.com) shows how multiple Servers with several virtual machines running on them can use VMFS to share a common clustered pool of storage.

Looks like Virtual Machine File System is an excellent file system. Except for one case: a failure without a backup.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Western Digital. How to Block the Service Area Access Without Jumpers or Isolation to Get the Data Access.

Posted on 05/04/2018 by ACELab team

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What do you normally do when your Western Digital Marvell drive falls into a Busy state as soon as you start Marvell utility and try to read HDD ID? Most likely you isolate head contacts for a 2.5″ drive, set the jumpers in Kernel mode for 3.5″, or short some special points on PCB. The above procedures are well known: they require working on a drive with a screwdriver or jumpers.

But, what to do if we have no possibility to unscrew the PCB or short the read channel, and the case must be resolved as fast as possible without engineer presenting in working place? In today’s article, we will show you how to get the ROM access and block the SA access to get the SA and data access without any of that.

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PC-3000 Shared Database

Posted on 04/27/2018 by ACELab team

We are often asked: how to use only one database for multiple computers?

Today we present you our how-to on configuring a shared database.

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