The Alternative Way of Recovering Data from a Burnt SSD

Posted on 09/16/2021 by ACELab team

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Sometimes, when the proven solutions can’t be applied to your problem, you need to change the approach and experiment a little. Let’s discuss the alternative method of data recovery from a burnt SSD.

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PC-3000 Portable III/Express/UDMA. How to Fix a Rosewood SSHD with a Damaged NAND Chip

Posted on 07/26/2021 by ACELab team

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The issue with a damaged NAND chip is very popular for the ST1000LX015 and ST2000LX001 models. At the ACE Lab Online Technical Conference 2021 we showed a case on this topic. Following up, this blog article with step-by-step instructions explains the provided solution.


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PC-3000 Flash. The Tesla Car Case

Posted on 07/20/2021 by ACELab team

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Worn-out NAND Flash chips are a common issue when we are speaking about data recovery from USB Flash devices. Nowadays chips may have low quality even from the factory. Your pendrive may die less than in a month because of that. Unfortunately, such a tendency can also be seen when we are talking about other devices in which NAND chips can be used, for example, SSDs, mobile phones, and even modern cars!

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PC-3000 Flash Spider Board Adapter. Automatic Pin Sequence Detection for the Monolith Bus Line

Posted on 04/21/2021 by ACELab team

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If you have ever dealt with monolithic data recovery, you have definitely faced the necessity to find out the order of the bus line pins. Previously, if you had not known the order of the bus line pins and if you had no pinout map with all the information – such a case could not have been solved. But now things are easier with the new feature we showed at the ACE Lab Online Technology Conference 2021. From here on, with the Spider Board adapter and the latest PC-3000 Flash software update 7.5.11 you will be able to find out the order of the bus line pins!

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PC-3000 Flash. The Alternative Way of Image Assembling for FAT32-based cases

Posted on 04/21/2021 by ACELab team

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Have you ever been in a situation when you were unable to finish the case with a complete file structure just because there was no Translator or Block number option for your particular case? It was a common issue for cases with such controllers as AU, SSS, FC (and some other ones, not that popular). But not anymore! With the latest PC-3000 Flash update Ver. 7.5.14, you can use a new assembling method for such cases, which carries out all the boring manual tasks automatically.

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PC-3000 Flash. The Main Data Correction Methods to Recover Data from NAND Flash Devices with the Maximum Success Rate

Posted on 02/26/2021 by ACELab team

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Last week we have discussed how to make the first steps in NAND Flash data recovery with the PC-3000 Flash during the ACE Lab Free Webinar. Following up, we have prepared for you this article about the vital procedures for recovering Flash cases. This topic will be especially interesting for beginners in NAND Flash data recovery who want to learn how to deal with NAND Flash in the most efficient and the smartest way. For already experienced data recovery specialists, this article can serve as a handy checklist on the main data correction methods while dealing with Flash cases.

Firstly, we are going to discuss ECC Correction and Rereading of invalid sectors.

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PC-3000 Flash. 6 Steps to Recover Data from Devices Based on the FC1178/FC1179 Controllers

Posted on 12/18/2020 by ACELab team

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FirstChip Technology started its expansion on the Flash market a few years ago. Today, some of the modern USB Flash drives are based on the FC1178/FC1179 controllers. Data recovery from most of these devices can be intricate because you may face 1-bit size bad columns, adaptive XORs, and very complex internal translations while working with them.

The good news is our developers have done a tremendous job in extracting XOR to add some of the FC1178/FC1179 controllers to the Support List. Now, you can recover data from even more NAND Flash devices! And, in this article, you will find the steps on how to do it.

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PC-3000 for HDD. Password Reset Procedure on Self-Encrypted Seagate F3 Drives

Posted on 11/11/2020 by ACELab team

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Sometimes you may come along a Self-Encrypted Seagate drive that has a user password set by its owner. A common ‘Reset password‘ option doesn’t work because the option requires Power OFF/ON step, and the drive is SED locked.

How to deal with this case? Find the step by step procedure right in the article below.

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PC-3000 Portable III. Apple Macbook SSDs: the Supported Interface Types and Issues

Posted on 09/30/2020 by ACELab team

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Over the past years the PCIe interface has become very common in Solid State drives. However, until 2020 it was not possible to recover data from such damaged SSD devices. The PCIe lines inside the PC-3000 Portable III tool give you the ability to recover data and evidence from the PCIe SSDs along with the ATA-based devices. But it doesn’t stop here!

Our developers constantly add more drives to the SSD Support List. During the ACE Lab Online Technology Conference 2020 we have announced the Apple NVMe drives support. Now you can recover data from modern Apple-based SSDs with our new PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD.

However, a number of Apple Macs, released between 2013 and 2016, were left unreached because they are based on the proprietary NON-NVMe architecture – the Apple AHCI PCIe protocol. So, this September we have released the beta version 6.8x of the PC-3000 Portable III. The update allows you to deal with all types of PCIe SSD drives, including the Apple AHCI ones that were hugely popular in the Macbooks, Mac Pro, and iMacs from 2013 and onwards.

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PC-3000 Portable III. Recovering Data from Logically Damaged Plextor PX-512M8SeY with a New PCIe x16 SSD Adapter

Posted on 09/16/2020 by ACELab team

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As you know, the PC-3000 Portable III supports the PCIe SSDs along with the SATA-based devices. Also, thanks to the new adapters and software updates, we constantly add new drives to the supported list. In September 2020, we have released the new PCIe x16 SSD Adapter for custom and native NVMe SSDs with PCIe x1-x16 interface.

It is extremely useful for drives that have a full-size PCIe bus as the only option of plugging in an SSD (e.g. Intel DC P4618 or Samsung PM1733). You may come upon such drives in server platforms and data centers because they are very stable and powerful. However, bad sectors can still appear due to prolonged use. In this case, the new PCIe x16 SSD Adapter paired with the PC-3000 Portable III System helps to bypass bad sectors and get the data from SSDs.

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