Tag Archives: Data Recovery

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

Posted on 04/12/2016 by ACELab team

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 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. Grinding – is a special process of compound erasing from the bottom side of monolith device. During this … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Compact Flash recovery. SM2234H

Posted on 11/04/2015 by ACELab team

Compact Flash cards – are the most fastest memory cards in the market. The main secret of CF – is a very powerful controller, which has direct access to several physical memory chips, which are placed on the CF PCB. The architecture of … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. How to recover data from a monolith (microSD card)

Posted on 10/12/2015 by ACELab team

Nowadays a lot of modern NAND flash devices use a new type of architecture, where the interface, the controller and memory chips are integrated into one common ceramic layer. We call it Monolithic structure. Until recently, all memory cards like SD, … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Building ROM image from SA data on WD Marvell drives with internal ROM using version 5.X

Posted on 09/24/2015 by ACELab team

The method can be used to recover original ROM image and then write it into donor PCB when original PCB was damaged, lost, or original ROM was lost. The “Building ROM image from SA data” tool was fully revised in … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Block rotation in Phison PS2251-03

Posted on 08/24/2015 by ACELab team

Block rotation – it’s a special operation which is typical for some of Phison, noname, Phison-clone and Sandisk controllers. Basically – it’s some kind of operations where inside block, one group of pages are always rotated. Controller of Flash drive … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Heads stack adaptive parameters(Microjogs) transfer on WD drives

Posted on 08/12/2015 by ACELab team

Sometimes after heads stack replacement the new heads stack works not stable. That occurs because every heads stack has its unique adaptive parameters. Those parameters are stored in module 47 of ROM. The adaptive parameters are more different from one … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. RAM Head map editing on WD drives (non-system head case)

Posted on 07/31/2015 by ACELab team

In some cases a drive with one or more malfunctioning heads can finish the initialization process without any visible errors. But when we try to read user area it results in error and no user data can be read. For … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. First steps. (Part 3)

Posted on 07/08/2015 by ACELab team

This part is a continuation of part 2. We proceed to work with RAID array and focus on assembling RAID configuration in interactive mode. A quick introduction: Sometimes RAID array metadata are damaged or RAID has a non-standard configuration. Data Extractor … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. First steps. (Part 2)

Posted on 07/08/2015 by ACELab team

This part is a continuation of part 1. We continue working with a RAID array and focus on the auto-detection functionality in Data Extractor RAID Edition. RAID array parameters definition for user is tedious work that doesn’t need much creativity. For … Continue reading →

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