Tag Archives: recovery

PC-3000 SSD. How to choose the correct loader for SM2258XT/SM2259XT/XT2

Posted on 10/13/2023 by ACELab team

Hello everyone! ACE Lab Technical Support department gets a lot of requests from your side about modern Solid State Drives based on such popular SMI controllers as SM2258XT, SM2259XT, SM2259XT2. All these controllers are fully supported in PC-3000 UDMA, Express … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. How to Recover Data from the NAND Flash Drives with the COB (Chip on Board) Memory Chips

Posted on 08/28/2020 by ACELab team

Hello friends! The COB (Chip On Board) memory chips present a challenge to data recovery engineers trying to recover data from them. The main obstacles lie in their internal structure: under the coating of black plastic, there is just a … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. 7 Steps to Recover Data from Kingston DataTravel G4 64GB with the CBM2199a Controller

Posted on 06/15/2020 by ACELab team

Hello everyone! In 2019 and 2020 the manufacturers of the NAND Flash controllers actively renewed their old lines with new generations. Silicon Motion released the SM3281L controller, Alcor Micro – AU89102. Now the Chipsbank company presented a new CBM2199a controller … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. The Translator Algorithm for SanDisk 4K (8sec) Flash Drives

Posted on 10/08/2019 by ACELab team

Hello friends, Recently, ACE Lab has announced a new translator building algorithm for SanDisk Flash drives. The new feature is now available for all authorized technical support users. To use this function, please download the PC-3000 Flash software Ver. 7.3.7. … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. Rebuilding NFTS partition with lost boot

Posted on 05/19/2017 by ACELab team

Hello friends, You know that we are living in the world where PCs can be infected with malware. The best-known example is WannaCry which infected many computers in different countries of the world. However, there are many other malware worms … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to Stop Worrying and Set Max LBA

Posted on 02/27/2017 by ACELab team

This article provides a simple method for disk original size making and the analysis of hidden sectors, those LBAs undetected or improperly detected by PC-3000 or another software. The difference between “models” sectors (shown in Drive ID) and “the real … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 DE. Data Extractor RAID Edition. How to recover data from RAID 5 on 3 drives where one drive has outdated data (we don’t know which one)

Posted on 01/13/2017 by ACELab team

Hello friends, Data recovery can be simple when we know RAID configuration (level, block size, start of striping, delay) and all RAID members have valid data (user data without any modifications). Unfortunately, we often find ourselves in less than perfect circumstances, … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Image building with Block Number

Posted on 12/23/2016 by ACELab team

Nowadays exist a lot of different controllers which are using different types of markes in SA for sorting all blocks together. As everybody knows, sometimes we can use information about marker and build image with full folder structure if we … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 09/23/2016 by ACELab team

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

Posted on 08/26/2016 by ACELab team

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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