Tag Archives: Seagate F3

PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to determine the Heads Preamp version

Posted on 01/26/2018 by ACELab team

During Seagate F3 drives data recovery process, engineers are often in need of donor heads. So how to find out the one compatible the most? There are different parameters that help to choose the correct donor head for a Head … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Manual Translator recovery procedure. Track Defects.

Posted on 11/16/2017 by ACELab team

As you may know, Seagate F3 drives use different Defect-lists to hide defected sectors. These are single defect records and track-defect records. On how to hide single defects you can read in this article. In the current article, we will … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. The easier way to fix Init SMART Fail error

Posted on 09/21/2017 by ACELab team

Hello dear PC-3000 users! SMART has proven to be the powerful method for monitoring the state of the drive in need of repair. This system detects and reports on various indicators.is system detects and reports on various indicators. However, SMART is … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. The password removing procedure for Seagate F3 drives

Posted on 08/04/2017 by ACELab team

Dear Friends, In this article, we would like to describe the procedure of password removing for Seagate F3 drive. We have tested this method for the Sapta15 family of Seagate F3 Architecture. However, this approach works for other families of Seagate … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 HDD. Seagate F3 arch. Manually Translator recovery procedure

Posted on 05/29/2017 by ACELab team

A lot of times PC-3000 owners asked us about sharing step-by-step guide. One of the often problems on Seagate F3 architecture drives is a Translator problem. Usually we try to regenerate Translator automatically (by Translator regeneration and Recovery translator procedures). Basically … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. Practical cases. How to get the Service Area access if one of non-system heads is damaged.

Posted on 01/18/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Sometimes we get the Seagate F3 drives which are clicking and don’t read the Service Area at all initially. It can be because of bad head(s), damaged/not original  PCB and ROM, and bad Service Area modules. In this … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Seagate F3. How to fix Init SMART Fail error

Posted on 12/19/2016 by ACELab team

Hi Friends! How are you today? As you know SMART is very useful thing. It provides detailed infomation about Hard Drive. However SMART is broken too. Do you see this error? Init SMART Fail LED:000000CC FAddr:xxxxxxxx If yes then welcome … Continue reading →

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