Tag Archives: WD

PC-3000 for HDD. How to unlock SED on WD SMR drives without a special board

Posted on 07/28/2022 by ACELab team

Hello dear friends, In June 2022, we released a new PC-3000 software version 7.1.x,  and one of the main features in this update is the SED unlocking option for new WD SMR families. It means that now you don’t need to … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Western Digital. How to solve the SED problem in RAM

Posted on 01/18/2018 by ACELab team

Hello dear friends, In the past, we have already talked about solving SED problem on WD 2,5″ drives. All of you know that this solution should be applied only if at least one of system heads is able to write, … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Western Digital. How to solve the Slow Responding issue if heads can not write.

Posted on 09/20/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! As you may know, when heads cannot pass the test during the initialization process, Western Digital Marvell drive does not allow an access to the service and user areas. If one of the system heads is in good … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. How to handle “VSC ERR INV FUNC CODE REQ” error in 2,5″ WD drives.

Posted on 05/18/2017 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! We all know that new Western Digital 2,5″ drives have some differences in their FW, so the common solutions don’t work for these drives.  In this article we will learn how to bypass the error when the drive … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 HDD. Nontypical HDD recovery. Playstation 3 Slim

Posted on 02/22/2017 by ACELab team

Sony Playstation 3 was a revolutionary console system, which became one of the first playing systems perfect not only for games, but also for storing and viewing digital media content. Lucky for powerful CPU IBM CELL and BlueRay drive, PS3 became … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Western Digital. Module 30 access blocking in a case of locked FBLite drive.

Posted on 12/15/2016 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! There are a few useful features were added in PC-3000 v6.2, and one of them is module 30 blocking in ROM. What is it and how does it work, we will discuss in this article.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Western Digital. The decryption of encrypted image.

Posted on 09/21/2016 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! All of us can face the situation when we forgot to select the “Decrypt” checkbox in Data Extractor settings: and read the part of data or the whole image encripted via the SATA interface. How to decrypt the … Continue reading →

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P-List and translator regeneration in WD Marvell drives

Posted on 08/01/2016 by ACELab team

Hello friends! We are all know how to get the data if translator (31h module) is damaged: follow Work with Service Area->Translator regeneration menu. The utility fix the translator automatically using the P-List (33h module), and we’re able to read … Continue reading →

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Simple Hot-Swap method for Service Area access in Western Digital drives

Posted on 06/02/2016 by ACELab team

Usually the problem with drive initialization can be related to bad heads, damaged Service Area or media damage. How to bypass the initialization errors if RAM head map editing does not help, and get an access to patient Service Area with the original … Continue reading →

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WD drives: how to change the module position using “Move\Resize module” feature.

Posted on 04/22/2016 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! In this small article we would like to show the update of Dir Editor – “MoveResize module” feature.

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