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PC-3000 Data Extractor. How to identify EndPoint encrytion using Data Extractor

The use of strong encryption is becoming more commonplace by the day. Most enterprises know full disk and file-level encryption is a necessity if you have something worth protecting. One of the strengths of PC-3000 Data Extractor is the ability to identify encryption … Continue reading

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3. How to fix translator issue caused by useless defects in Non-Resident G-list

Dear Users, you are often facing with a problem when on Seagate F3 drives you can read sectors in the beginning of the drive but from certain LBA the drive is filled with UNC error and in Data Extractor sectors … Continue reading

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to mount virtual machine of Linux iSCSI server in Data Extractor RAID Edition

In modern data center or enterprise environment, an iSCSI target often resides in a large storage array. These arrays can be in the form of commodity hardware with free-software-based iSCSI implementations, or as commercial products such as in StorTrends, Pure … Continue reading

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PC-3000 Flash / PC-3000 for HDD. Canon Video recovery

Canon cameras are very popular nowadays. A lot of people are buying them for making pictures and recording videos. As we know, usually a lot of wedding photographers and videographers are using them as main tool for shooting. We know … Continue reading

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

For some complex RAID cases ata Extractor RAID Edition has feature which allows to determine RAID configuration based on user files. Theory and methodology. Let’s look into .zip files. They contain two types of data: – zip metadata (structures which … Continue reading

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

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

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 … Continue reading

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PC-3000. Short notice about PC-3000 scripting

Sometimes advanced users ask us about how to write own code which interacts with PC-3000 and for what it could be useful. Answering.

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PC-3000 DE. How to extract GREP regular expression for new type of files

In this article we will describe how to add new type of file in Data Extractor search engine reference. Let’s consider an example – client asks us to recover *.qbw files.

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