| December 10, 2020 |
The new versions of PC-3000 Portable/Express/UDMA Ver. 6.8.8, Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition Ver. 5.11.5, PC-3000 SSD / PC-3000 SSD Extended Ver. 2.9.5 are available! |
We continually enhance the PC-3000 tools by adding new modes, algorithms, and functions. Today we are glad to announce that the following English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese software updates are released:
- PC-3000 Portable-II/Portable-III/Express/UDMA-e version 6.8.8
- PC-3000 SAS-I/SAS-II version 6.8.8
- Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition version 5.11.5
- PC-3000 SSD/PC-3000 SSD Extended version 2.9.5
All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.
Please contact us to learn more on how to become an authorized technical support user and receive all of the recent PC-3000 Software Updates:
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A SHORT LIST OF THE MAIN ENHANCEMENTS
PC-3000 Portable, Express, UDMA
WD Marvell
| ADDED | support for SPI NOR FLASH, which comply with JEDEC JESD216 (SFDP) standard in the Boot ROM mode:
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| ADDED | a new mode for reading and analyzing the second level translator for SpyGlass, Palmer, and Charger families |
PC-3000 Kernel
| ADDED | disk wiping to the Utility tools, optional verification of wiping by reading, and wiping based on DoD 5220.22-M Data Wipe standard |
PC-3000 Portable III
Standalone Mode
| ADDED | ability to copy a source drive (Port-0 or USB) to destination drive (Port-1/2) as files. The copy is created in a partition with the ExFAT file system. If the partition cannot be found or it hasn’t enough space, you will be suggested to format the disk. The "PC3000_Copy" folder created in the ExFAT partition contains a subfolder with the "YYYY_MM_DD hh_mm_ss" name (YYYY – year, MM – month, DD – date, hh – hour, mm – minutes, ss – seconds). This folder consists of .raw and .txt files with the information about the device, copying date, software version, user, and checksum if it was selected during copying. |
Data Extractor
RAW recovery
| ENHANCED | the speed of the mode (up to 1.5-2 times) |
| ENHANCED | checking algorithm for RAW-photos |
APFS file system
| ADDED | a searching method for encryption parameters based on *wipekey sectors map |
PC-3000 SSD / PC-3000 SSD Extended
Silicon Motion Controllers
| ADDED | support for SM2258XT controller (Silicon Power Slim S55, KingDian S200, WD Green, Apacer AS350 Panther, Patriot P200, Smartbuy Jolt, RevuAhn 885, Crucial BX500 and other) |
PC-3000 SSD Extended
Phison controllers
| ADDED | support for the PS5008 controller (Smartbuy M8, LiteOn MU X, Apacer AS2280P2, Gigabyte GSM2NE8, Kingston A1000, Patriot Scorch M2) |
Plextor SSD with Marvell controllers (NVMe)
| ADDED | support for Plextor M9PeGN (88SS1093) in the PC-3000 Portable III:
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DETAILED LIST OF ENHANCEMENTS:
PC-3000 Portable, Express, UDMA
WD Marvell
| ADDED | support for SPI NOR FLASH, which comply with JEDEC JESD216 (SFDP) standard in the Boot ROM mode:
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| ADDED | a reading based on the placement of used areas and bypassing unused ones (in any reading mode) for module 190 |
| ADDED | a new mode for reading and analyzing the second level translator for SpyGlass, Palmer, and Charger families |
| ADDED | blocking the launch of the script that may lead to interruption of the scan in the Self-Scan monitoring mode |
| ADDED | control and optional checksum correction in the "View and edit HDD resources" mode during the sector-by-sector modules writing |
Seagate F3
| ADDED | the ability to re-sort the list of extents to restore the Prev / Next, PrevPhys / NextPhys indexes in the MCMT. Edit plugin, which allows to correct one of the reasons for the appearance of LED 9E23 |
| ADDED | a test to check whether there is header data in the middle of the module body in the MCMT parser (by signature at the beginning of the sector and MTP at the selected position) |
| ADDED | information from IAP about passport template, PUS, ActiveConfig, NAND ROM cache flag (Kahuna / Rosewood like) to the ROM report |
| ADDED | analysis of extent integrity by PhysPrev / PhysNext to the MCMT parser. The analysis of the correspondence of information header fields in the module body is also extended |
| ADDED | the "Send YModem.NAK" command to the list of commands on the right button of the workspace |
| CHANGED | display of the progress of data transfer via the YModem protocol (writing system files via the terminal, transfer ROM data during the writing procedure for some families) |
| CHANGED | the location of the following utility settings (you can find them in the global settings now):
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PC-3000 Universal Utility
| ENHANCED | the speed of writing when using "Combination with block number" (always applied to the data integrity test) for the following writing tests: "Write", "Complex test", "Integrity test", "Logical scanning" (for all utilities). The speed is now higher and independent of computer performance. |
PC-3000 USB Universal Utility
| ADDED | support for IDE/SATA standard tool kit for USB drives supporting SAT (ID, SMART, Set features) |
PC-3000 tools
| ENHANCED | "Sector edit" mode. You can now read the first sector after the form is displayed and can abort the procedure with a button |
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
PC-3000 Kernel
| ADDED | power control in the dialog of port selection for the PC-3000 Portable III |
| ADDED | automatic detection of the PCIe type (NVMe or AHCI) for Easy and Full-Featured modes of the PC-3000 Portable III |
| ADDED | ability to create tasks with data copy in the Easy Mode of the PC-3000 Portable III. You can choose this option after the quick analysis is done |
| ADDED | setting of the UDMA mode for sector edit mode when using the UDMA writing/reading commands |
| ADDED | support of the PCIe x16 adapter foк the PC-3000 Portable III. You can also see the 12V indicator in the NVMe mode |
| ADDED | indication of the controller temperature and warning in case of thermal excursion (90℃ and 100℃) for the PC-3000 Portable III |
| ADDED | disk wiping to the Utility tools, optional verification of wiping by reading, and wiping based on DoD 5220.22-M Data Wipe standard |
| ENHANCED | power control to handle faulty drives |
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
PC-3000 Portable III
Standalone Mode
| ADDED | ability to copy a source drive (Port-0 or USB) to destination drive (Port-1/2) as files. The copy is created in a partition with the ExFAT file system. If the partition cannot be found or it hasn’t enough space, you will be suggested to format the disk. The "PC3000_Copy" folder created in the ExFAT partition contains a subfolder with the "YYYY_MM_DD hh_mm_ss" name (YYYY – year, MM – month, DD – date, hh – hour, mm – minutes, ss – seconds). This folder consists of .raw and .txt files with the information about the device, copying date, software version, user, and checksum if it was selected during copying. |
| ENHANCED | interface:
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Easy Mode
| ADDED | ability to customize the report (insert the logo of your organization and additional info about the case) |
PC-3000 SAS
| ENHANCED | the joint work of the PC-3000 SAS and PC-3000 Express controllers in the PC-3000 Hybrid System to recover data from RAID |
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
Data Extractor
| ADDED | a drop-down list with options to edit the number of the bytes in a row in the Sector editor |
| ENHANCED | and accelerated the decryption process based on sectors map for encrypted WD drives |
| ENHANCED | the decryption speed for Bitlocker, FileVault, and TrueCrypt |
| ENHANCED | export to E01 format to correctly view the export results in EnCase and X-Ways Forensics tools |
| ENHANCED | parsing speed of the *.deff format thanks to the optimization of hashing and compressing algorithms |
RAW recovery
| ADDED | ReFS file structure |
| ENHANCED | the speed of the mode (up to 1.5-2 times) |
| ENHANCED | сhecking algorithm for *.CDR files based on zip format |
| ENHANCED | checking algorithm for RAW-photos |
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
ReFS file system
| ADDED | options to insert ReFS partitions from the RAW scan mode for ReFS Boot, SuperblockV3, CheckpointV3 structures |
| ADDED | ReFS partitions searching method to the Quick Disk analysis |
| ADDED | Boot searching option to the RAW scan mode (v1) |
| ADDED | to the v3:
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APFS file system
| ADDED | a searching method for encryption parameters based on *wipekey sectors map |
| ADDED | a method to build maps of recently selected and deselected sectors |
| ENHANCED | an option to scan used and unused sectors map. It takes into account all container versions now |
| ENHANCED | scan options. From now on, you can launch them in the background or add them to the queue |
| ENHANCED | the APFS metadata scan process |
| ENHANCED | used and unused sectors map building process when selected all versions of the container (maps building 'compressed' without duplicates in different sector chains) |
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
WFS0.4 file system
| ENHANCED | video files grouping based on cameras process |
| ENHANCED | date/time format for files sorting process |
HFS+ file system
| ADDED | Database index statistics recalc step in scan modes (that increases the speed of the searching process in the result of analysis) |
Ext3 file system
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
NTFS file system
| ENHANCED | assembling algorithm for lost Extends for "MFT Scan" and "Data Analysis" |
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
VMFS file system
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
ExFAT file system
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
Structure tab
| ADDED | ability to jump back a random number of steps |
| ADDED | structure loading indicator |
| ADDED | ability to re-read the current sector from the disk |
| ADDED | ability to disable automatic structures parsing when navigating through the explorer catalogs |
| ADDED | panel for viewing the current content in various encodings in the HEX-editor |
| ADDED | ability to set a default structure that will be displayed when for the current data appropriate template which wasn’t found or committed by a user |
| ADDED | context menu with the functions of copying the field header as text in the structure fields |
| ADDED | structure parsing interruption when the threshold number of errors is reached (for FAT, exFAT, and linear Ext (2,3,4) directories) |
| ADDED | ability to assign a random type to a field (in the field editing window) |
| ENHANCED | the determination of the NTFS structures |
| ENHANCED | parsing of the NTFS attributes |
| ENHANCED | the field with a regular expression in the header to search for a file continuation for a partially parsed Zip file |
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
| CHANGED | the algorithm of abortion upon using the stop button during the command execution |
Data Extractor for PC-3000 Portable III
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
Data Extractor RAID Edition
| ADDED | "RAID Members Report" mode to the new RAID creation form. It makes easier the determination of basic RAID parameters: block size, the start of stripe, array type, and number of participants |
| ENHANCED | the mechanism for determining the possible start of blocks in the "RAID member statistics" mode |
| ENHANCED | and significantly accelerated the construction of submaps taking into account redundancy |
PC-3000 SSD / PC-3000 SSD Extended
AS2258 controller
| ADDED | double loading of the SBFM71xx loader for AS2258 controller to ensure switching of the operating mode of some memory chips types |
PS3111 controller
| ADDED | new loaders for the PS3111 controller |
| ENHANCED | and adapted the algorithm to build a translator for drives based on the following microprograms: SBFMB1xx, SBFME1xx, SBFMJ1xx, SBFMK1xx (PS3111 controller) |
Silicon Motion Controllers
| ADDED | support for SM2258XT controller (Silicon Power Slim S55, KingDian S200, WD Green, Apacer AS350 Panther, Patriot P200, Smartbuy Jolt, RevuAhn 885, Crucial BX500 and other) |
| ENHANCED | algorithms for the utility's reaction to reading errors when reading through DE |
SM2258XT controller
| ENHANCED | the algorithm for building the translator |
| ENHANCED | the loader selection machine |
SM2246XT controller
SSD Kingston based on the JMicron controllers
| ENHANCED | the algorithm for determining the number of regions when building a translator |
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
PC-3000 SSD Extended
Phison controllers
| ADDED | support for the PS5008 controller (Smartbuy M8, LiteOn MU X, Apacer AS2280P2, Gigabyte GSM2NE8, Kingston A1000, Patriot Scorch M2) |
| ENHANCED | algorithms for the utility's reaction to reading errors when reading through DE |
| ENHANCED | the output of read errors to the log in the "Saving dumps" test (disabled because it's not informative) |
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
Plextor SSD with Marvell controllers (NVMe)
| ADDED | support for Plextor M9PeGN (88SS1093) in the PC-3000 Portable III:
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Universal utility of PC-3000 SSD Extended (NVMe)
| ENHANCED | other features and added minor optimizations |
