PC-3000
Portable PRO
PC-3000 Portable PRO is the next generation of the only tool in the world to recover most data from almost any type of storage devices: SATA/PATA/USB HDD, SAS HDD/SSD, SATA (M.2 SATA/mSATA) SSD, M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI (Apple Macbook, Apple Macbook PRO A1706/1708, Intel Optane, U.2/U.3, PCIe x16, CFexpress) SSD, RAID and logically damaged NAND Flash devices, SD/mSD cards.

The most multifunctional tool
for any data recovery challenge

4 diagnostic ports to recover data

Use 3 universal PCIe/SATA ports and 1 USB HOST port at the same time

More powerful 120W PSU is inside the delivery kit!

Connect your storage media directly via the PC-3000 Portable PRO ports: USB, SATA, PATA, PCIe (NVMe/AHCI, PCIe x16, Apple Macbook, U.2/U.3, Intel Optane, CFexpress).
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The world’s first and only solution to deal with damaged PCIe SSDs. Stay ahead of your competitors: diagnose the condition of PCIe SSDs (NVMe/AHCI, Apple Macbook, MacBookPro A1706/A1708, PCIe x16, U.2/U.3, Intel Optane, CFexpress digital cards) and recover data from such damaged devices thanks to the special adapters: M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI SSD & M.2 SATA SSD adapter, PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD, MacBookPro A1706/A1708 adapter, PCIe x16 SSD Adapter, SSD PCIe U.2 Adapter, SSD PCIe NVMe/AHCI + Intel Optane Adapter and СFexpress adapter.
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Breakthrough: now you can work with 3 pcie nvme at once!

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Superb
for both on-site
and in-lab
data recovery

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Make your own
workstation
out of one device

Use the PC-3000 Portable PRO to quickly and easily diagnose practically any type of storage media devices, find the reason of damage, make images and recover as much data as possible. Two active licenses for a desktop computer/ laptop along with a Standalone Mode to work without a host computer allow you to arrange your workstation wherever you need it!

PC-3000 portable pro operating modes

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Standalone Mode
for quick diagnostics and data copying
Сreate data images from USB Flash, SATA/PATA/USB HDD, PCIe/SATA/USB SSD without a host computer. Drive diagnostics, creation of the sector-by-sector copies, erasing (cleaning) of the drives are available. More features are going to be added with the software updates.
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Enhanced Easy Mode
to solve simple cases quickly
Get rid of many routine steps by automating the process of data recovery from logically damaged drives: check the drive's condition, save the report about it, read the drive ID and S.M.A.R.T. parameters, remove passwords from the security-locked drives, view/copy data, and much more!
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High-end
Full-Featured Mode
to recover as many cases
of different complexity
as ever possible
Get maximum data from damaged storage devices no matter how difficult your case is! The mode includes top features that you already know from the other PC-3000 flagship solutions: PC-3000 Express and PC-3000 UDMA. No other tool can recover data like PC-3000 does!

Standalone mode for onsite recovery

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Hash-sum calculations
when copying and reading data

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Drive settings SMART view

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Oscilloscope function

For advanced diagnosis of faulty drives.
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Sector view

In Standalone mode, in the "Diagnostics" section, the "Sector View" mode is added in hexadecimal and symbolic form. Now you can view the availability of data on the drive, MBR, GPT tables, bootable partition sectors, partition sectors, see if the data on the drive is encrypted, and much more!

What’s new in pro version?

Comparison of the new PC-3000 Portable PRO and PC-3000 Portable lll
Comparative characteristics PC-3000 Portable III PC-3000 Portable PRO
ROM 4 MB 16 MB
RAM 1 GB 2 GB
Displayed diagonal screen area 72 mm 100 mm
Touch screen no yes
Graphical user interface no yes
Oscilloscope function no yes
Power Supply Unit 90W 120W
Main communication interface with the control computer USB 3.0 USB 3.1
Number of simultaneously operating ports 3 4
Number of simultaneously operating NVMe/PCIe drives 1 3
Diagnostic Port 0 PCIe/SATA
5V-3А, 12V-2,5А
PCIe/SATA
5V-3А, 12V-2,5А
Diagnostic Port 1 SATA
5V-2А, 12V-2,5А
PCIe/SATA
5V-3А, 12V-2,5А
Diagnostic Port 2 SATA
5V-2А, 12V-2,5А
PCIe/SATA
5V-3А, 12V-2,5А
Diagnostic Port USB (HOST) USB 3.0, 5V-2А USB 3.1, 5V-3А
Support of Intel Optane SSD interface no yes
Improved anti-interference ability of PCB no yes
Ability to turn off and turn on the device from the touch screen button no yes
Technical features
Form factor: External device (154х86х46 mm)
Interface type: USB 3.1
Diagnostic ports: USB 3.1 (Host), Port 0 (PCIe / SATA), Port 1 (PCIe / SATA), Port 2 (PCIe / SATA)
Power adapter: 4-channel independent power adapter with protection from overvoltage and current overloading, with current and voltage measurements
Operating temperature range: 0-40°C thanks to the Climate Control System
Power Supply: 120W External AC / DC 19 V
Number of active licenses: 2 (to install the software on both a desktop computer and a laptop)
Other: Touch screen, non-volatile Memory to keep log files with date, time (GMT), username and settings which can be used in the reports later on.
The built-in lithium power supply ensures uninterrupted operation of the century-old calendar and world clock (UTC).
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Recommended system requirements:

CPU: Intel Core i5 (4 cores, 4 threats) or AMD Ryzen 5;
RAM: 16 GB;
Available disk space: 1TB HDD/SSD (for installation of software and HDD/SSD resources);
Operating system: Windows 10, 11*, x86, x64;
Display: Widescreen Full HD 1920x1080 display.
Ports: USB 3.1 Type-A port for connection of PC-3000 Portable PRO (an Intel xHCI HOST controller is recommended);
USB 3.1 Type-A or USB 2.0 port for PC-USB-TERMINAL connection.

* with switched off Secure Boot State in BIOS/UEFI and disabled Windows Core Isolation
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Supported devices and file systems:

SATA / PATA
HDD
(3.5", 2.5",1.8")
Supported interfaces:

SATA (Serial ATA) and USB devices compliant with the Mass Storage Device specification, i.e. external USB 2.0/3.0 HDD.

SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive).

PATA (PATA HDDs at least 250 GB) - via a special PC SATA-PATA adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally.

Supported vendors: Seagate, Western Digital, TOSHIBA, HITACHI / IBM (HGST), Samsung, Maxtor
Supported capacities: From 40 GB and more (without upper limit)
SAS HDD / SSD
(3.5", 2.5")*
Supported interfaces:

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)

Supported vendors: Seagate, Western Digital, HITACHI / IBM (HGST), Fujitsu
Supported capacities: From 80 GB and more
SSD** Supported interfaces:

SATA II/III

Micro SATA, PATA, LIF, ZIF, Apple proprietary interface

mSATA - via a special SATA-mSATA RAID adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

M.2 SATA - via a special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI SSD & M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the delivery kit

M.2 PCIe NVMe and M.2 (NGFF) - via a special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI SSD & M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the delivery kit

The Apple MacBook SSD M.2 NGFF PCI-e NVMe Macbook SSD 2013-2019 (12+16 pin) - via the PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

PCIe NVMe x4 SSD installed into MacBookPro 13 laptops manufactured in 2016-2017 via a special MacBookPro A1706/A1708 adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

PCIe x1-x16 - via the PCIe x16 SSD Adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

CFexpress - via a special CFexpress Adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

U.2/U.3 (SFF-8639) - via a special SSD PCIe U.2 Adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

Intel Optane H10/H20 - via a special SSD PCIe NVMe/AHCI + Intel Optane Adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

Supported vendors: A-DATA, AMD, Apacer, Corsair, Crucial, DEXP, Foxline, G.Skill, Gigabyte, GoodRam, HP, Intel, KingDian, Kingspec, Kingston, Kioxia, Lenovo, Lexar, Lite-On, Micron, OCZ, Patriot, Plextor, PNY, QUMO, RevuAhn, RunCore, Samsung, SanDisk, Seagate, Silicon Power, Smartbuy, TeamGroup, Toshiba, Transcend, WesternDigital etc. More manufacturers are added with the updates
Supported capacities: From 32 GB and more (without upper limit)
USB Flash*** Supported interfaces:

USB devices that comply with the Mass Storage Device specification, i.e., external USB 2.0 / 3.0 Flash.

SD/MicroSD Memory Cards via the special 2-in-1 Card Reader Adapter included in the delivery kit

Supported vendors: A-DATA, Apacer, Corsair, Goodram, Kingston, Lexar, Samsung, Sandisk, Silicon Power, Smartbuy, Toshiba, Transcend, Verbatim and others
Supported capacities:

From 256 MB and more (without upper limit)

Up to 1 TB for SD/MicroSD Memory Cards

RAID**** Supported virtual RAID levels:
  • 0 (Stripe), 1 (Mirror), 1E Offset and Adjacent, JB0D, 4, 5, 5E, 5EE, 6 and 6-Adaptec
  • Various combined levels: 10, 50, 51, 60 and others (due to the possibility to use virtual RAID array as a member)
  • Software-based RAID and multi-disk storage systems: LDM and mdadm structure analysis, WSS (Windows Storage Spaces), ZFS RAID-Z, BtrFS RAID, Apple Fusion Drive (HFS+, APFS), Intel Optane (NV Cache)
  • Custom configurations that are set by the user with the tabular (matrix) presentation
Files Systems FAT, exFAT, NTFS, ReFS, HFS+, APFS, EXT2/3/4, XFS, F2FS, ReiserFS, BtrFS, VMFS, UFS1/2, ZFS, DHF4.1, WFS0.x (for video recorders) and virtual machine images

* for dealing with SAS HDD/SSD using your PC-3000 Portable PRO, you need to get the SAS adapter with Special Utilities additionally

** to work with Solid-State drives you need the PC-3000 solution which supports SSD: PC-3000 Portable SSD, Ultimate System or All-In-One System

*** the PC-3000 Portable PRO is able to recover data only from logically damaged (partition corruption, deleted files, damaged File System, etc.) Flash drives. To recover data from physically damaged Flash, you need PC-3000 Flash

**** to work with RAID you need the PC-3000 solution which supports RAID arrays: PC-3000 Portable RAID, Ultimate System or All-In-One System

How to use
Want to know more about the PC-3000 Portable PRO and how to use it?
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Updates
August 19, 2024 The New Software Update: PC-3000 Ver. 7.5.x, Data Extractor Ver. 6.5.x, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.5.x has been released
The new PC-3000 Express/UDMA/SAS/Portable software version 7.5.x has been released.
  • PC-3000 Ver. 7.5.x
  • Data Extractor Ver. 6.5.x
  • PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.5.x

The latest update brings a lot of new useful features, like full support of 4K displays into the PC-3000 interface, new families for WD Marvell and Seagate F3, the new HDD ROM wizard for Seagate drives as well as the new implementation of T2 translator recovery with WDC Marvell utilities and the new Silicon Motion controllers.

Check out the full article and watch our new overview video!

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February 09, 2024 Supermassive Software Update: PC-3000 Ver. 7.4.x, Data Extractor Ver. 6.4.x, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.4.x
  • PC-3000 Ver. 7.4.11
  • Data Extractor Ver. 6.4.11
  • PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.4.10

It’s one of the biggest PC-3000 updates ever, and it brings so many changes and improvements.
The ACE Lab team is sure that it will significantly help PC-3000 users to increase their modern drives’ recovery rate!

See the list of the main enhancements in the full article

ACE Lab technical engineers have made a short overview video of the new features available in the latest update. We highly recommend you to watch it from beginning to end for better understanding how the new modes and features work.
Feel free to send your questions in our TS ticket system: https://ts.acelab.eu.com and enjoy our new PC-3000 7.4.x update!

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June 8, 2023 New PC-3000 Ver. 7.3.6, Data Extractor Ver. 6.3.6 / PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.3.3 has been released

The latest PC-3000 Software is available!
The new update has brought a lot of cool features for Western Digital and Seagate HDDs, including new drive families and expanded recovery options for SMR drives, new SSD loaders, a new CPU Utility for MAXIO controllers and much more.

All this is available in the freshly-released versions of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:


  • PC-3000 Ver. 7.3.6
  • Data Extractor Ver. 6.3.6
  • PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.3.3

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software version.

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December 8, 2022 The new PC-3000 Software Ver. 7.2.12, Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition Ver. 6.2.11, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.2.9 has been released

The latest PC-3000 Software is available! Thanks to the new SDK we have recently switched to, it's already been the 3rd major software update released this year.

The new update has brought the enhanced T2 Reading and Analysis Mode, the support of PS5012, PS3112, and of new SAS SSDs, as well as many more other useful features to improve your work with data recovery cases! All this is available in the freshly-released versions of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:


  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 7.2.12
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 7.2.12
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 6.2.11
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 3.2.9

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

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June 2, 2022 A new software version of the PC-3000 Ver. 7.1.6, Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition Ver. 6.1.6, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.0.4 has been released

Great news for the data recovery community: with the new PC-3000 Software Update, you can unlock the Techno Mode for WD SED drives of all SMR 2.5" and 3.5” families without any custom PCB. It’s the easiest and most convenient way how to do this!

This release has also brought the support of LVM2 thin pools and PS5016 PCIe 4.0 NVME drives as well as loaders for PS3111 and SM2259XT controllers. These features and many more are already available in the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:

  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 7.1.6
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 7.1.6
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 6.1.6
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 3.0.4

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

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February 16, 2022 The New PC-3000 Software Version is Available!

At the ACE Lab Webinar on the Modern Challenges in Data Recovery & Digital Forensics, our technical engineers showed the features available with the PC-3000 Version 7.0.x., for example, TLER (time-limited error recovery) for WD HDD, the Data Extractor error-processing scenario, and the support of new NVMe drives based on Marvell 88SS1093 controller. These features and more are now available in the latest version of the PC-3000 Software:


  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 7.0.25
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 7.0.25
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 6.0.12
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 3.0.3
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May 26, 2021 A new software version of the PC-3000 Ver. 6.9.9, Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition Ver. 5.12.5, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 2.10.2 has been released

Since now, it's possible to work with Phison PS3111-based drives, which have YMTC NAND memory on board. The new update brings an opportunity to decrypt the external USB drive Transcend ESD230C with SM2258XT controller, and also it brings extended loaders support for SM2259XT drives, improvements in software stability and speed.

Hurry up to download the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean software:


  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 6.9.9
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 6.9.9
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 5.12.5
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 2.10.2

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

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April 30, 2021 The Most Recent Software Versions of the PC-3000 Portable/Express/UDMA/SAS, Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition, PC-3000 SSD/PC-3000 SSD Extended are Released!

The ACE Lab Online TechCon on Data Recovery & Digital Forensics 2021 revealed a huge number of the most up-to-date features for your PC-3000 tools: support of the new drives families and controllers, T2 Recovery visual mode for SMR drives, a new class of additional maps, and many others functions that make your data recovery job easier and faster.

Hurry up to download the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean software:


  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 6.9.7
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 6.9.7
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 5.12.3
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 2.10.1

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

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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.

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October 16, 2020 The PC-3000 Portable III Now Supports the Silicon Motion SM2258XT SSDs!

ACE lab developers have done a great job by researching Silicon Motion SM2258XT SSDs and optimizing the algorithms to make the most efficient and stable Utility for this type of the drives. As such, you can now raise your data recovery success rate by dealing with Silicon Power Slim S55, KingDian S200, WD Green, Apacer AS350 Panther, Patriot P200, Smartbuy Jolt, RevuAhn 885, Crucial BX500, and other SM2258XT SSDs.

The support appears with the beta version of the PC-3000 SSD Extended software ver. 2.9.3 available for the PC-3000 Portable III users. To get the beta version of the software, please contact our Technical Support Department.

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September 30, 2020 The New Software Add-On: PC-3000 SSD Extended!

The ACE Lab developers constantly research drives which results in a rapid expansion of the support list for the most modern storage media devices. Today, we have released PC-3000 SSD Extended – the new software add-on that supports the widest range of SSD types: SATA, mSATA, M.2 SATA, M.2 PCIe NVMe/АHCI, PCIe x16, Apple Macbook, LIF, ZIF, PATA.

The additional features of the PC-3000 SSD Extended add-on for PCIe SSD (NVMe/AHCI) appear with the beta version of software available for the PC-3000 Portable III users only. To get the beta version of the software, please contact our Technical Support Department.

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April 30, 2020 The new versions of PC-3000 Express/UDMA-E/Portable Ver. 6.7.12, Data Extractor Ver. 5.10.7, Data Extractor RAID Edition Ver. 5.10.7, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 2.8.2 are available!

Last week, you saw a lot of new PC-3000 functions at the ACE Lab Online Technology Conference on Data Recovery & Digital Forensics 2020. Today all these features are waiting for you in your update boxes! The following English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean software updates are released:

  • PC-3000 Express/UDMA-e/Portable-II/Portable-III) version 6.7.12
  • Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition version 5.10.7
  • PC-3000 SSD version 2.8.2

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

More details are available in the link below.

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April 14, 2020 The PC-3000 Portable III Now Supports the NVMe SSDs Based on Phison PS5007 Controller!

The PC-3000 Portable III is the first and the only solution for recovering data from PCIe NVMe SSDs using the Techno Mode. At the initial release, it supported only Silicon Motion SSDs based on SM2260 and SM2263 controllers. But it was just the beginning!

Now we have significantly expanded the list of supported drives by adding the NVMe SSDs based on the Phison PS5007 controller. And since all the PS5007-based SSDs are technically the same, you can recover data from any model based on this controller, even if it’s not listed in the Utility.

More details are available in the link below.

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March 23, 2020 The PC-3000 Portable III Is Even Faster and More Powerful Now!

ACE Lab developers continue enhancing the software of the PC-3000 Portable III System with new features for the user community. As a result, the most universal and powerful tool became even faster – now the speed of internal copying is up to 490 MB/s. We also added the support of HDDs and SSDs with a logical sector size other than 512 bytes that had not previously been possible. Besides, it’s no longer required to disable the Secure Boot option in UEFI (BIOS) before the PC-3000 Portable III installation.

More details are available in the link below.

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March 10, 2020 The PC-3000 Portable III: New Features and Supported Devices

The well-designed and flexible architecture of the PC-3000 Portable III allows the ACE Lab developers to continue enhancing this incredibly powerful product on the software and internal firmware levels. As such, you get a hardware-software tool that is constantly evolving by obtaining a lot of new features and supporting new models of storage media devices, along with new standards and interfaces.

There are so many features that have been added to the PC-3000 Portable III just within one month! Take a glance at them by clicking the link below.

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January 20, 2020 The new version of the PC-3000 software ver. 6.7.x and Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition ver.5.10.x for the PC-3000 Portable III Systems

The PC-3000 Portable III Systems come with a new version of the PC-3000 software ver. 6.7.x and Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition ver.5.10.x. More details are below:

WD Marvell

  • Added Charger family support;
  • For SMR HDD (Spyglass, Palmer, Charger):
    • Added map building based on second-level translator data, disabling Read Defrag;
    • the restriction on the volume (65535 sectors) read by the module ID has been removed;
    • Added technological reading by PBA (reading is possible if a second-level translator is lost).
  • For the PC-3000 Portable-III complex, a logical scan has been added for the USB / COM utility (for the USB Host port).

Seagate F3

  • Added support for the following families:
    • 7A Makara, 8B Lamarr, 91 MakaraPlus, 95 Hepburn Oasis, 9B V11, A1 M11, A6 Nemo, AF Rosewood AF / Janus;
  • UnlockTech code rewritten to ensure minimum size in ROM;
  • A mechanism for expanding the BOOTFW segment in ROM for UnlockTech has been made for the AF Rosewood AF / Janus family;
  • For the families GrenadaBP2, Bacall, PharaohOasis, HepburnOasis, the loader loading permission code has been improved:
    • from BFW (integrated into UnlockTech);
    • from DFW (available from: ROM Wizard or Auto Initialization Wizard, function "Switch off extended LOD checking(RAM)".
  • For reading modules, the selection of a working copy has been added (auto, 1, 2). If "auto" is selected, the disk reads and selects the copy by itself;
  • - When recording modules and Sys Files, you can separately select which copy to save;
  • - When recording modules and Sys Files, the last selected folder is now remembered;
  • - When writing ROM, the last selected terminal speed is now saved;
  • - The ability to save the selected region of RAM via ATA has been added to the procedure of HDD resources backup;
  • - Added head test for reading / writing SA modules: DST_WRTESTx, where x = 0..7 - head numbers (i.e. modules 22..29);
  • - The option to work via terminal has been added to maps of logical and physical heads to edit the block of SAP parameters (Servo Adaptives Parameters) in RAM - MaxHead;
  • Added active utility actions for Data Extractor:
    • "Download the write lock to RAM HDD (ATA)";
    • "No HOST BSY -> RDY" - receiving the state of readiness for some damage to SA leading to BUSY;
    • "Switch off extended LOD checking(RAM)”;
    • "Clear device fault state (RAM)";
    • "Download translator to RAM HDD";
    • "Download MCMT to RAM HDD.
  • Plugins and add-ons to them:
    • Plugin "MCMT extent edit" - extent editor in MediaCache;
    • "MCMT \ Edit" - added the ability to cut TRIM extents;
    • In the parser "MCMT \ Parser" you can now filter TRIM records and save them into a separate map file.
  • New feature for direct work with DiskFW has been added in "Work with Flash ROM image file" menu: through reading/writing Sys File (Terminal/ATA Direct/ATA Indirect - Utility status settings);
    • New patches/actions have been added in the "Work with Flash ROM image file" menu:
    • The "Block native DFW boot" patch from SA (to bypass SA SysDef reading) and patch removal;
    • The "Show Device Fault reason at start" patch (impact on DiskFW);
    • The patch clearing DAP / CELog (Critical Event Log) in ROM;
    • The "Kahuna/GrenadaSSHD CFW/DFW patch 2" patch - to get Terminal access in case of NAND damage;
    • The "Desaru LED67 FAddr: 0038xxxx" patch and patch removal;
    • The "No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags, BSY -> RDY (HDD RAM)" action.
  • New patches/actions has been added in the "HDD Autoinitialization":
    • The "Block native DFW boot" patch from SA (to bypass SA SysDef reading);
    • The "Show Device Fault reason at start" patch (impact on DiskFW);
    • The "Desaru LED67 FAddr: 0038xxxx" patch;
    • The "No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags, BSY -> RDY (HDD RAM)" post-action;
    • The "Load translator to HDD" post-action;
    • The "Load MCMT" post-action.
  • Control and warning message about adaptives corruption has been included into all ROM reading/writing options;
  • Control and warning message about adaptives corruption has been included into all ROM reading/writing options;
  • Defect hiding procedure and translator regeneration via ATA have been improved - for Rosewood and similar families;
  • In case of Alternative initialization through terminal (ROM/DiskFW) sys files are saved in profile folder;
  • BootFW and BootCode switches have been added to the "User commands" menu.
  • New tokens have been added for user commands:
    • REPEAT_CHAR, using: char, ^char, 0xHEX (ex: REPEAT_CHAR A, REPEAT_CHAR ^R, REPEAT_CHAR 0x1B);
    • INIT_BC, force switching in BootCode.

Seagate ST10

  • 7200.10 NHawk has been added to the Family list (same block with Galaxy).

HITACHI-IBM-ARM

  • Autofilter has been added for different object types in Work with SA objects menu;
  • Warning messages have been added for ROM writing option:
    • Warning before ROM writing - "If it fails, it needs a programmer for ROM rewrite";
    • Warning before ROM writing - "For ROM write it needs to be code overlays loaded in HDD RAM";
    • Warning before ROM writing - "ROM write may take some minutes to perform".

Samsung HDD

  • The "Send "LE"" ("LE" package) has been added in the "Utility Actions";
  • In defect's editor fixed error when it was impossible to enter a cylinder number greater than 0xFFFF when adding a defect;
  • In "Reading modules" test fixed error when the module was first read, and then the "Skip Existing Modules" checkbox was checked;
  • In "Disabling zone and heads" test fixed error when it was impossible to interrupt the running process;
  • Added header check when editing the SNTBL module;
  • Added possibility to reserve modules not only by composing reading but with chosen heads;
  • For Samsung "USB Utility" (USB host Portable3 version) added the test "Logical Scan";
  • Added the "Reconnect COM port" menu;
  • Added possibility to clear module directly in ROM dump to the "Clearing FIPS module";
  • Added autopower switching after reading ROM from the drive to the "Initializing HDD with editing the head map in RAM" test. In some cases the drive may freeze after reading ROM;
  • Added S.M.A.R.T. enabling in module B2 PROFILE to the "S.M.A.R.T. Clearing" (by utility method). For M8E drives that pass the burn-test;
  • Added possibility to choose values from the list of standard capacities to the "Passport data editor" test and the menu "Set max LBA" from the "Disabling zones and Heads" test;
  • Added menu for selecting zones according to the CHS list and the A-LIST table to the "Disabling zones and heads";
  • In order to unify it with other utilities, the “Formatting” test has been moved to a separate quick access menu;
  • For F1_3D, F2_EG, N2B, N3 families loaders are replaced. New loaders have the ability to write a ROM dump to the drive completely, including a head map;
  • Added the "Change the head map in ROM" test for drives F1_3D, F2_EG, F3, M7S2, N2B, F3_4D, M7E, F4_3D, F4, M8E, MT2, N3, MP4, M9T;
  • Samsung USB utility adapted to work with USB-Host port PC-3000 Portable 3.

Toshiba

  • Added a logical scan for the PC-3000 Portable-III complex and for the USB Utility (for the USB Host port).

The PC-3000 Core

  • A completely redesigned simplified interface. Added support for NVMe and USB drives. Added report on the results of diagnostics and statistics on a copy creation.
  • Imaging speed increased by increasing priority of threads engaged in "secondary" parsing processes (background analysis, writing and reading maps) and energy saving settings changes (% of process using etc). Due to these improvements imaging speed was increased to minimum reading speed of two devices (source and patient). For example, the PC-3000 SAS II device is able to perform imaging with about 220 MB/sec;
  • Alternative maps
    • real-time coloring possibility for alternative map (during the reading process for example) was added;
    • real-time coloring possibility for alternative map on drives with changed sector size and "connected" map during the reading initial drives was added;
    • "Snapshots based on legend" alternative maps for File systems option was added.
  • During the saving process from the searching window now only saves files that meet the search criteria;

RAW recovery

  • Fixed the Fake APFS structures searching result issue;
  • Some types of files control has been improved to avoid possible fake searching result;
  • *.heic files are parsing now (before determined like *.mp4);
  • AppleCoreStorage structures parsing methods improved;
  • DHF and WFS structures searching has been added, also virtual partitions adding methods has been improved.
  • Virtual Drive - Map Decrypted:
    • Added support of 256 bit keys;
    • Added support of AES-CBC-WithoutDiffusor algorithms.
  • FileVault
    • Metadata parsing has been improved. Loading speed has been improved.
    • EncryptedRoot.plist.wipekey files is no longer required for a lot of tasks;
    • Unicode passwords are supported now.
  • BitLocker
    • Added support of Partitions with few recovery keys;
    • Added support of Unicode passwords.
  • VeraCrypt
    • Added support of VeraCrypt (though without Camellia and Kuznechik algorithms for now).
  • F2FS File system
    • Primary support of FS added.
  • NTFS file system
    • Added parser for NTFS LogFile. LogFile contains NTFS metadata changes (MFT, Index). Option is in the context menu of file system node (menu "Parse LFS", LFS stands for Log File Service). As a result, the virtual disk with so-called layers is created. It's possible to select a layer on the disk. Layer presents a snapshot of metadata at a certain time period. Number of layers correlates with the "age" of the layer. Based on practice, LogFile can contain metadata for a time period from several hours to several months.
    • Implemented basic support for the new type of EFS metadata.
    • Improved start offset detection for partitions with huge amount of non-resident catalogs;
    • Added support for MFT uploading for tasks with several disks.
    • Implemented saving procedure for deduplicated files with resident attribute C0.
  • UFS file system
    • Improves partition analysis with file extensions with more than 8 unicode symbols.
  • ExFAT file system
    • Improved partition analysis. Added parser for objects addressed by FAT table without descriptors in catalogs (LostFatObjects node).
  • FAT file system
    • Improved analysis for cases with more than 10000 catalogs;
    • Added support for the FAT table with more than 200000 sectors.
  • HFS+ file system
    • Improved performance of partition analysis.

Silicon Motion

  • eNew loaders have been added for SM2246EN and SM2246XT controllers;
  • During translator building an output of the total number of defective pages has been added into the log;
  • Tests for translator saving and uploading have been added;
  • Verification of wrong memory ID has been added into log during drive initialization and in "Memory chips test"
  • SM2246EN (SATA) controller:
    • New family Transcend 370s has been added;
  • SM2258XT (SATA) controller:
    • New family Silicon Power S55 has been added;
  • SM2260G (NVMe) controller:
    • New family ADATA XPG SX7000 has been added;
  • SM2263XT (NVMe) controller:
    • The following families have been added: AMD Radeon R5, Transcend MTE110S, Lexar NM600, Neo Forza Zion NFP03, HP EX900.

Phison

  • For PS3108, PS3111 and AS2258 controllers new loaders have been added;
  • Algorithm for correct Loader version autodetection in case if SSD stays in SAFE MODE has been improved;
  • Verification of wrong memory ID has been added into log during drive initialization and in "Memory chips test".
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Delivery kits
For recovering data from SATA/USB HDD, PATA HDD (PATA adapter is required), SAS HDD/SSD (SAS adapter is required) and logically damaged NAND Flash devices & SD/mSD cards.
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For recovering data from SATA/USB HDD, PATA HDD (PATA adapter is required), SAS HDD/SSD (SAS adapter is required), SATA (M.2 SATA/mSATA) SSD, M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI SSD and logically damaged NAND Flash devices & SD/mSD cards.
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For recovering data from SATA/USB HDD, PATA HDD (PATA adapter is required), SAS HDD/SSD (SAS adapter is required), RAID and logically damaged NAND Flash devices & SD/mSD cards.
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For recovering data from SATA/USB HDD, PATA HDD (PATA adapter is required), SAS HDD/SSD (SAS adapter is required), SATA (M.2 SATA/mSATA) SSD, M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI SSD, RAID and logically damaged NAND Flash devices & SD/mSD cards.
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Years of research and development in Data Recovery tools production have helped ACE Lab engineers to accumulate all knowledge and TOP data recovery technologies in one universal device — PC-3000 Portable PRO, the world’s only tool for extracting all-device data whatever the damage is.
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Recover evidence when
all imagers and other
tools fail

PC-3000 Portable PRO is the next generation of the only tool in the world to recover most data from almost any type of storage devices: SATA/PATA/USB HDD, SAS HDD, SAS SSD, SATA (M.2 SATA/mSATA) SSD, M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI (Apple Macbook, Apple Macbook PRO A1706/1708, Intel Optane, U.2/U.3, PCIe x16, CFexpress) SSD, RAID and logically damaged NAND Flash devices, SD/mSD cards.

Handle any type of storage media using just one tool

4 diagnostic ports to recover data

Use 3 universal PCIe/SATA ports and 1 USB HOST port at the same time

More powerful 120W PSU is inside the delivery kit!

Connect your storage media directly via the PC-3000 Portable PRO ports: USB, SATA, PATA, PCIe (NVMe/AHCI, PCIe x16, Apple Macbook, U.2/U.3, Intel Optane, CFexpress).
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The world’s first and only solution to deal with damaged PCIe SSDs. Extract more evidence: diagnose the condition of PCIe SSDs (NVMe/AHCI, Apple Macbook, MacBookPro A1706/A1708, PCIe x16, U.2/U.3, Intel Optane, CFexpress digital cards) and recover data from such damaged devices thanks to the special adapters: M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI SSD & M.2 SATA SSD adapter, PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD, MacBookPro A1706/A1708 adapter, PCIe x16 SSD Adapter, SSD PCIe U.2 Adapter, SSD PCIe NVMe/AHCI + Intel Optane Adapter and СFexpress adapter.
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Breakthrough: now you can work with 3 pcie nvme at once!

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Superb
for both on-site
and in-lab
data recovery

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Make your own
workstation
out of one device

Use the PC-3000 Portable PRO to quickly and easily diagnose practically any type of storage media devices, find the reason of damage, make images and recover as much data as possible. Two active licenses for a desktop computer/ laptop along with a Standalone Mode to work without a host computer allow you to arrange your workstation wherever you need it!

Hardware write protection to ensure evidence
integrity

A special switch on the device blocks any alteration of data during the extraction or imaging on selected ports. When it’s turned on, a yellow LED lights up and indicates that the record block is activated.
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Logging
and reports
generation

View, save and print reports about the condition of drives you examine for further investigation. The detailed information in the report can help you to better understand the internal hardware status of the drive you deal with.

PC-3000 portable pro operating modes

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Standalone Mode
for quick diagnostics and data copying
Сreate data images from USB Flash, SATA/PATA/USB HDD, PCIe/SATA/USB SSD without a host computer. Drive diagnostics, creation of the sector-by-sector copies, erasing (cleaning) of the drives are available. More features are going to be added with the software updates.
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Enhanced Easy Mode
to solve simple cases quickly
Get rid of many routine steps by automating the process of data recovery from logically damaged drives: check the drive's condition, save the report about it, read the drive ID and S.M.A.R.T. parameters, remove passwords from the security-locked drives, view/copy data, and much more!
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High-end
Full-Featured Mode
to recover as many cases
of different complexity
as ever possible
Get maximum data from damaged storage devices no matter how difficult your case is! The mode includes top features that you already know from the other PC-3000 flagship solutions: PC-3000 Express and PC-3000 UDMA. No other tool can recover data like PC-3000 does!

Standalone mode for onsite recovery

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Hash-sum calculations
when copying and reading data

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Drive settings SMART view

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Oscilloscope function

For advanced diagnosis of faulty drives.
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Sector view

In Standalone mode, in the "Diagnostics" section, the "Sector View" mode is added in hexadecimal and symbolic form. Now you can view the availability of data on the drive, MBR, GPT tables, bootable partition sectors, partition sectors, see if the data on the drive is encrypted, and much more!

What’s new in pro version?

Comparison of the new PC-3000 Portable PRO and PC-3000 Portable lll
Comparative characteristics PC-3000 Portable III PC-3000 Portable PRO
ROM 4 MB 16 MB
RAM 1 GB 2 GB
Displayed diagonal screen area 72 mm 100 mm
Touch screen no yes
Graphical user interface no yes
Oscilloscope function no yes
Power Supply Unit 90W 120W
Main communication interface with the control computer USB 3.0 USB 3.1
Number of simultaneously operating ports 3 4
Number of simultaneously operating NVMe/PCIe drives 1 3
Diagnostic Port 0 PCIe/SATA
5V-3А, 12V-2,5А
PCIe/SATA
5V-3А, 12V-2,5А
Diagnostic Port 1 SATA
5V-2А, 12V-2,5А
PCIe/SATA
5V-3А, 12V-2,5А
Diagnostic Port 2 SATA
5V-2А, 12V-2,5А
PCIe/SATA
5V-3А, 12V-2,5А
Diagnostic Port USB (HOST) USB 3.0, 5V-2А USB 3.1, 5V-3А
Support of Intel Optane SSD interface no yes
Improved anti-interference ability of PCB no yes
Ability to turn off and turn on the device from the touch screen button no yes
Technical features
Form factor: External device (154х86х46 mm)
Interface type: USB 3.1
Diagnostic ports: USB 3.1 (Host), Port 0 (PCIe / SATA), Port 1 (PCIe / SATA), Port 2 (PCIe / SATA)
Power adapter: 4-channel independent power adapter with protection from overvoltage and current overloading, with current and voltage measurements
Operating temperature range: 0-40°C thanks to the Climate Control System
Power Supply: 120W External AC / DC 19 V
Number of active licenses: 2 (to install the software on both a desktop computer and a laptop)
Other: Touch screen, non-volatile Memory to keep log files with date, time (GMT), username and settings which can be used in the reports later on.
The built-in lithium power supply ensures uninterrupted operation of the century-old calendar and world clock (UTC).
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Recommended system requirements:

CPU: Intel Core i5 (4 cores, 4 threats) or AMD Ryzen 5;
RAM: 16 GB;
Available disk space: 1TB HDD/SSD (for installation of software and HDD/SSD resources);
Operating system: Windows 10, 11*, x86, x64;
Display: Widescreen Full HD 1920x1080 display.
Ports: USB 3.1 Type-A port for connection of PC-3000 Portable PRO (an Intel xHCI HOST controller is recommended);
USB 3.1 Type-A or USB 2.0 port for PC-USB-TERMINAL connection.

* with switched off Secure Boot State in BIOS/UEFI and disabled Windows Core Isolation
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Supported devices and file systems:

SATA / PATA
HDD
(3.5", 2.5",1.8")
Supported interfaces:

SATA (Serial ATA) and USB devices compliant with the Mass Storage Device specification, i.e. external USB 2.0/3.0 HDD.

SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive).

PATA (PATA HDDs at least 250 GB) - via a special PC SATA-PATA adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally.

Supported vendors: Seagate, Western Digital, TOSHIBA, HITACHI / IBM (HGST), Samsung, Maxtor
Supported capacities: From 40 GB and more (without upper limit)
SAS HDD / SSD
(3.5", 2.5")*
Supported interfaces:

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)

Supported vendors: Seagate, Western Digital, HITACHI / IBM (HGST), Fujitsu
Supported capacities: From 80 GB and more
SSD** Supported interfaces:

SATA II/III

Micro SATA, PATA, LIF, ZIF, Apple proprietary interface

mSATA - via a special SATA-mSATA RAID adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

M.2 SATA - via a special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI SSD & M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the delivery kit

M.2 PCIe NVMe and M.2 (NGFF) - via a special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe/AHCI SSD & M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the delivery kit

The Apple MacBook SSD M.2 NGFF PCI-e NVMe Macbook SSD 2013-2019 (12+16 pin) - via the PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

PCIe NVMe x4 SSD installed into MacBookPro 13 laptops manufactured in 2016-2017 via a special MacBookPro A1706/A1708 adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

PCIe x1-x16 - via the PCIe x16 SSD Adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

CFexpress - via a special CFexpress Adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

U.2/U.3 (SFF-8639) - via a special SSD PCIe U.2 Adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

Intel Optane H10/H20 - via a special SSD PCIe NVMe/AHCI + Intel Optane Adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally

Supported vendors: A-DATA, AMD, Apacer, Corsair, Crucial, DEXP, Foxline, G.Skill, Gigabyte, GoodRam, HP, Intel, KingDian, Kingspec, Kingston, Kioxia, Lenovo, Lexar, Lite-On, Micron, OCZ, Patriot, Plextor, PNY, QUMO, RevuAhn, RunCore, Samsung, SanDisk, Seagate, Silicon Power, Smartbuy, TeamGroup, Toshiba, Transcend, WesternDigital etc. More manufacturers are added with the updates
Supported capacities: From 32 GB and more (without upper limit)
USB Flash*** Supported interfaces:

USB devices that comply with the Mass Storage Device specification, i.e., external USB 2.0 / 3.0 Flash.

SD/MicroSD Memory Cards via the special 2-in-1 Card Reader Adapter included in the delivery kit

Supported vendors: A-DATA, Apacer, Corsair, Goodram, Kingston, Lexar, Samsung, Sandisk, Silicon Power, Smartbuy, Toshiba, Transcend, Verbatim and others
Supported capacities:

From 256 MB and more (without upper limit)

Up to 1 TB for SD/MicroSD Memory Cards

RAID**** Supported virtual RAID levels:
  • 0 (Stripe), 1 (Mirror), 1E Offset and Adjacent, JB0D, 4, 5, 5E, 5EE, 6 and 6-Adaptec
  • Various combined levels: 10, 50, 51, 60 and others (due to the possibility to use virtual RAID array as a member)
  • Software-based RAID and multi-disk storage systems: LDM and mdadm structure analysis, WSS (Windows Storage Spaces), ZFS RAID-Z, BtrFS RAID, Apple Fusion Drive (HFS+, APFS), Intel Optane (NV Cache)
  • Custom configurations that are set by the user with the tabular (matrix) presentation
Files Systems FAT, exFAT, NTFS, ReFS, HFS+, APFS, EXT2/3/4, XFS, F2FS, ReiserFS, BtrFS, VMFS, UFS1/2, ZFS, DHF4.1, WFS0.x (for video recorders) and virtual machine images

* for dealing with SAS HDD/SSD using your PC-3000 Portable PRO, you need to get the SAS adapter with Special Utilities additionally

** to work with Solid-State drives you need the PC-3000 solution which supports SSD: PC-3000 Portable SSD, Ultimate System or All-In-One System

*** the PC-3000 Portable PRO is able to recover data only from logically damaged (partition corruption, deleted files, damaged File System, etc.) Flash drives. To recover data from physically damaged Flash, you need PC-3000 Flash

**** to work with RAID you need the PC-3000 solution which supports RAID arrays: PC-3000 Portable RAID, Ultimate System or All-In-One System

How to use
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Updates
August 19, 2024 The New Software Update: PC-3000 Ver. 7.5.x, Data Extractor Ver. 6.5.x, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.5.x has been released
The new PC-3000 Express/UDMA/SAS/Portable software version 7.5.x has been released.
  • PC-3000 Ver. 7.5.x
  • Data Extractor Ver. 6.5.x
  • PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.5.x

The latest update brings a lot of new useful features, like full support of 4K displays into the PC-3000 interface, new families for WD Marvell and Seagate F3, the new HDD ROM wizard for Seagate drives as well as the new implementation of T2 translator recovery with WDC Marvell utilities and the new Silicon Motion controllers.

Check out the full article and watch our new overview video!

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February 09, 2024 Supermassive Software Update: PC-3000 Ver. 7.4.x, Data Extractor Ver. 6.4.x, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.4.x
  • PC-3000 Ver. 7.4.11
  • Data Extractor Ver. 6.4.11
  • PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.4.10

It’s one of the biggest PC-3000 updates ever, and it brings so many changes and improvements.
The ACE Lab team is sure that it will significantly help PC-3000 users to increase their modern drives’ recovery rate!

See the list of the main enhancements in the full article

ACE Lab technical engineers have made a short overview video of the new features available in the latest update. We highly recommend you to watch it from beginning to end for better understanding how the new modes and features work.
Feel free to send your questions in our TS ticket system: https://ts.acelab.eu.com and enjoy our new PC-3000 7.4.x update!

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June 8, 2023 New PC-3000 Ver. 7.3.6, Data Extractor Ver. 6.3.6 / PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.3.3 has been released

The latest PC-3000 Software is available!
The new update has brought a lot of cool features for Western Digital and Seagate HDDs, including new drive families and expanded recovery options for SMR drives, new SSD loaders, a new CPU Utility for MAXIO controllers and much more.

All this is available in the freshly-released versions of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:


  • PC-3000 Ver. 7.3.6
  • Data Extractor Ver. 6.3.6
  • PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.3.3

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software version.

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December 8, 2022 The new PC-3000 Software Ver. 7.2.12, Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition Ver. 6.2.11, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.2.9 has been released

The latest PC-3000 Software is available! Thanks to the new SDK we have recently switched to, it's already been the 3rd major software update released this year.

The new update has brought the enhanced T2 Reading and Analysis Mode, the support of PS5012, PS3112, and of new SAS SSDs, as well as many more other useful features to improve your work with data recovery cases! All this is available in the freshly-released versions of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:


  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 7.2.12
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 7.2.12
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 6.2.11
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 3.2.9

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

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June 2, 2022 A new software version of the PC-3000 Ver. 7.1.6, Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition Ver. 6.1.6, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.0.4 has been released

Great news for the data recovery community: with the new PC-3000 Software Update, you can unlock the Techno Mode for WD SED drives of all SMR 2.5" and 3.5” families without any custom PCB. It’s the easiest and most convenient way how to do this!

This release has also brought the support of LVM2 thin pools and PS5016 PCIe 4.0 NVME drives as well as loaders for PS3111 and SM2259XT controllers. These features and many more are already available in the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:

  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 7.1.6
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 7.1.6
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 6.1.6
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 3.0.4

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

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February 16, 2022 The New PC-3000 Software Version is Available!

At the ACE Lab Webinar on the Modern Challenges in Data Recovery & Digital Forensics, our technical engineers showed the features available with the PC-3000 Version 7.0.x., for example, TLER (time-limited error recovery) for WD HDD, the Data Extractor error-processing scenario, and the support of new NVMe drives based on Marvell 88SS1093 controller. These features and more are now available in the latest version of the PC-3000 Software:


  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 7.0.25
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 7.0.25
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 6.0.12
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 3.0.3
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May 26, 2021 A new software version of the PC-3000 Ver. 6.9.9, Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition Ver. 5.12.5, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 2.10.2 has been released

Since now, it's possible to work with Phison PS3111-based drives, which have YMTC NAND memory on board. The new update brings an opportunity to decrypt the external USB drive Transcend ESD230C with SM2258XT controller, and also it brings extended loaders support for SM2259XT drives, improvements in software stability and speed.

Hurry up to download the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean software:


  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 6.9.9
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 6.9.9
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 5.12.5
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 2.10.2

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

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April 30, 2021 The Most Recent Software Versions of the PC-3000 Portable/Express/UDMA/SAS, Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition, PC-3000 SSD/PC-3000 SSD Extended are Released!

The ACE Lab Online TechCon on Data Recovery & Digital Forensics 2021 revealed a huge number of the most up-to-date features for your PC-3000 tools: support of the new drives families and controllers, T2 Recovery visual mode for SMR drives, a new class of additional maps, and many others functions that make your data recovery job easier and faster.

Hurry up to download the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean software:


  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 6.9.7
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 6.9.7
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 5.12.3
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 2.10.1

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

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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.

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October 16, 2020 The PC-3000 Portable III Now Supports the Silicon Motion SM2258XT SSDs!

ACE lab developers have done a great job by researching Silicon Motion SM2258XT SSDs and optimizing the algorithms to make the most efficient and stable Utility for this type of the drives. As such, you can now raise your data recovery success rate by dealing with Silicon Power Slim S55, KingDian S200, WD Green, Apacer AS350 Panther, Patriot P200, Smartbuy Jolt, RevuAhn 885, Crucial BX500, and other SM2258XT SSDs.

The support appears with the beta version of the PC-3000 SSD Extended software ver. 2.9.3 available for the PC-3000 Portable III users. To get the beta version of the software, please contact our Technical Support Department.

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September 30, 2020 The New Software Add-On: PC-3000 SSD Extended!

The ACE Lab developers constantly research drives which results in a rapid expansion of the support list for the most modern storage media devices. Today, we have released PC-3000 SSD Extended – the new software add-on that supports the widest range of SSD types: SATA, mSATA, M.2 SATA, M.2 PCIe NVMe/АHCI, PCIe x16, Apple Macbook, LIF, ZIF, PATA.

The additional features of the PC-3000 SSD Extended add-on for PCIe SSD (NVMe/AHCI) appear with the beta version of software available for the PC-3000 Portable III users only. To get the beta version of the software, please contact our Technical Support Department.

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April 30, 2020 The new versions of PC-3000 Express/UDMA-E/Portable Ver. 6.7.12, Data Extractor Ver. 5.10.7, Data Extractor RAID Edition Ver. 5.10.7, PC-3000 SSD Ver. 2.8.2 are available!

Last week, you saw a lot of new PC-3000 functions at the ACE Lab Online Technology Conference on Data Recovery & Digital Forensics 2020. Today all these features are waiting for you in your update boxes! The following English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean software updates are released:

  • PC-3000 Express/UDMA-e/Portable-II/Portable-III) version 6.7.12
  • Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition version 5.10.7
  • PC-3000 SSD version 2.8.2

All authorized technical support users will get the latest software versions.

More details are available in the link below.

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April 14, 2020 The PC-3000 Portable III Now Supports the NVMe SSDs Based on Phison PS5007 Controller!

The PC-3000 Portable III is the first and the only solution for recovering data from PCIe NVMe SSDs using the Techno Mode. At the initial release, it supported only Silicon Motion SSDs based on SM2260 and SM2263 controllers. But it was just the beginning!

Now we have significantly expanded the list of supported drives by adding the NVMe SSDs based on the Phison PS5007 controller. And since all the PS5007-based SSDs are technically the same, you can recover data from any model based on this controller, even if it’s not listed in the Utility.

More details are available in the link below.

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March 23, 2020 The PC-3000 Portable III Is Even Faster and More Powerful Now!

ACE Lab developers continue enhancing the software of the PC-3000 Portable III System with new features for the user community. As a result, the most universal and powerful tool became even faster – now the speed of internal copying is up to 490 MB/s. We also added the support of HDDs and SSDs with a logical sector size other than 512 bytes that had not previously been possible. Besides, it’s no longer required to disable the Secure Boot option in UEFI (BIOS) before the PC-3000 Portable III installation.

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March 10, 2020 The PC-3000 Portable III: New Features and Supported Devices

The well-designed and flexible architecture of the PC-3000 Portable III allows the ACE Lab developers to continue enhancing this incredibly powerful product on the software and internal firmware levels. As such, you get a hardware-software tool that is constantly evolving by obtaining a lot of new features and supporting new models of storage media devices, along with new standards and interfaces.

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January 20, 2020 The new version of the PC-3000 software ver. 6.7.x and Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition ver.5.10.x for the PC-3000 Portable III Systems

The PC-3000 Portable III Systems come with a new version of the PC-3000 software ver. 6.7.x and Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition ver.5.10.x. More details are below:

WD Marvell

  • Added Charger family support;
  • For SMR HDD (Spyglass, Palmer, Charger):
    • Added map building based on second-level translator data, disabling Read Defrag;
    • the restriction on the volume (65535 sectors) read by the module ID has been removed;
    • Added technological reading by PBA (reading is possible if a second-level translator is lost).
  • For the PC-3000 Portable-III complex, a logical scan has been added for the USB / COM utility (for the USB Host port).

Seagate F3

  • Added support for the following families:
    • 7A Makara, 8B Lamarr, 91 MakaraPlus, 95 Hepburn Oasis, 9B V11, A1 M11, A6 Nemo, AF Rosewood AF / Janus;
  • UnlockTech code rewritten to ensure minimum size in ROM;
  • A mechanism for expanding the BOOTFW segment in ROM for UnlockTech has been made for the AF Rosewood AF / Janus family;
  • For the families GrenadaBP2, Bacall, PharaohOasis, HepburnOasis, the loader loading permission code has been improved:
    • from BFW (integrated into UnlockTech);
    • from DFW (available from: ROM Wizard or Auto Initialization Wizard, function "Switch off extended LOD checking(RAM)".
  • For reading modules, the selection of a working copy has been added (auto, 1, 2). If "auto" is selected, the disk reads and selects the copy by itself;
  • - When recording modules and Sys Files, you can separately select which copy to save;
  • - When recording modules and Sys Files, the last selected folder is now remembered;
  • - When writing ROM, the last selected terminal speed is now saved;
  • - The ability to save the selected region of RAM via ATA has been added to the procedure of HDD resources backup;
  • - Added head test for reading / writing SA modules: DST_WRTESTx, where x = 0..7 - head numbers (i.e. modules 22..29);
  • - The option to work via terminal has been added to maps of logical and physical heads to edit the block of SAP parameters (Servo Adaptives Parameters) in RAM - MaxHead;
  • Added active utility actions for Data Extractor:
    • "Download the write lock to RAM HDD (ATA)";
    • "No HOST BSY -> RDY" - receiving the state of readiness for some damage to SA leading to BUSY;
    • "Switch off extended LOD checking(RAM)”;
    • "Clear device fault state (RAM)";
    • "Download translator to RAM HDD";
    • "Download MCMT to RAM HDD.
  • Plugins and add-ons to them:
    • Plugin "MCMT extent edit" - extent editor in MediaCache;
    • "MCMT \ Edit" - added the ability to cut TRIM extents;
    • In the parser "MCMT \ Parser" you can now filter TRIM records and save them into a separate map file.
  • New feature for direct work with DiskFW has been added in "Work with Flash ROM image file" menu: through reading/writing Sys File (Terminal/ATA Direct/ATA Indirect - Utility status settings);
    • New patches/actions have been added in the "Work with Flash ROM image file" menu:
    • The "Block native DFW boot" patch from SA (to bypass SA SysDef reading) and patch removal;
    • The "Show Device Fault reason at start" patch (impact on DiskFW);
    • The patch clearing DAP / CELog (Critical Event Log) in ROM;
    • The "Kahuna/GrenadaSSHD CFW/DFW patch 2" patch - to get Terminal access in case of NAND damage;
    • The "Desaru LED67 FAddr: 0038xxxx" patch and patch removal;
    • The "No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags, BSY -> RDY (HDD RAM)" action.
  • New patches/actions has been added in the "HDD Autoinitialization":
    • The "Block native DFW boot" patch from SA (to bypass SA SysDef reading);
    • The "Show Device Fault reason at start" patch (impact on DiskFW);
    • The "Desaru LED67 FAddr: 0038xxxx" patch;
    • The "No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags, BSY -> RDY (HDD RAM)" post-action;
    • The "Load translator to HDD" post-action;
    • The "Load MCMT" post-action.
  • Control and warning message about adaptives corruption has been included into all ROM reading/writing options;
  • Control and warning message about adaptives corruption has been included into all ROM reading/writing options;
  • Defect hiding procedure and translator regeneration via ATA have been improved - for Rosewood and similar families;
  • In case of Alternative initialization through terminal (ROM/DiskFW) sys files are saved in profile folder;
  • BootFW and BootCode switches have been added to the "User commands" menu.
  • New tokens have been added for user commands:
    • REPEAT_CHAR, using: char, ^char, 0xHEX (ex: REPEAT_CHAR A, REPEAT_CHAR ^R, REPEAT_CHAR 0x1B);
    • INIT_BC, force switching in BootCode.

Seagate ST10

  • 7200.10 NHawk has been added to the Family list (same block with Galaxy).

HITACHI-IBM-ARM

  • Autofilter has been added for different object types in Work with SA objects menu;
  • Warning messages have been added for ROM writing option:
    • Warning before ROM writing - "If it fails, it needs a programmer for ROM rewrite";
    • Warning before ROM writing - "For ROM write it needs to be code overlays loaded in HDD RAM";
    • Warning before ROM writing - "ROM write may take some minutes to perform".

Samsung HDD

  • The "Send "LE"" ("LE" package) has been added in the "Utility Actions";
  • In defect's editor fixed error when it was impossible to enter a cylinder number greater than 0xFFFF when adding a defect;
  • In "Reading modules" test fixed error when the module was first read, and then the "Skip Existing Modules" checkbox was checked;
  • In "Disabling zone and heads" test fixed error when it was impossible to interrupt the running process;
  • Added header check when editing the SNTBL module;
  • Added possibility to reserve modules not only by composing reading but with chosen heads;
  • For Samsung "USB Utility" (USB host Portable3 version) added the test "Logical Scan";
  • Added the "Reconnect COM port" menu;
  • Added possibility to clear module directly in ROM dump to the "Clearing FIPS module";
  • Added autopower switching after reading ROM from the drive to the "Initializing HDD with editing the head map in RAM" test. In some cases the drive may freeze after reading ROM;
  • Added S.M.A.R.T. enabling in module B2 PROFILE to the "S.M.A.R.T. Clearing" (by utility method). For M8E drives that pass the burn-test;
  • Added possibility to choose values from the list of standard capacities to the "Passport data editor" test and the menu "Set max LBA" from the "Disabling zones and Heads" test;
  • Added menu for selecting zones according to the CHS list and the A-LIST table to the "Disabling zones and heads";
  • In order to unify it with other utilities, the “Formatting” test has been moved to a separate quick access menu;
  • For F1_3D, F2_EG, N2B, N3 families loaders are replaced. New loaders have the ability to write a ROM dump to the drive completely, including a head map;
  • Added the "Change the head map in ROM" test for drives F1_3D, F2_EG, F3, M7S2, N2B, F3_4D, M7E, F4_3D, F4, M8E, MT2, N3, MP4, M9T;
  • Samsung USB utility adapted to work with USB-Host port PC-3000 Portable 3.

Toshiba

  • Added a logical scan for the PC-3000 Portable-III complex and for the USB Utility (for the USB Host port).

The PC-3000 Core

  • A completely redesigned simplified interface. Added support for NVMe and USB drives. Added report on the results of diagnostics and statistics on a copy creation.
  • Imaging speed increased by increasing priority of threads engaged in "secondary" parsing processes (background analysis, writing and reading maps) and energy saving settings changes (% of process using etc). Due to these improvements imaging speed was increased to minimum reading speed of two devices (source and patient). For example, the PC-3000 SAS II device is able to perform imaging with about 220 MB/sec;
  • Alternative maps
    • real-time coloring possibility for alternative map (during the reading process for example) was added;
    • real-time coloring possibility for alternative map on drives with changed sector size and "connected" map during the reading initial drives was added;
    • "Snapshots based on legend" alternative maps for File systems option was added.
  • During the saving process from the searching window now only saves files that meet the search criteria;

RAW recovery

  • Fixed the Fake APFS structures searching result issue;
  • Some types of files control has been improved to avoid possible fake searching result;
  • *.heic files are parsing now (before determined like *.mp4);
  • AppleCoreStorage structures parsing methods improved;
  • DHF and WFS structures searching has been added, also virtual partitions adding methods has been improved.
  • Virtual Drive - Map Decrypted:
    • Added support of 256 bit keys;
    • Added support of AES-CBC-WithoutDiffusor algorithms.
  • FileVault
    • Metadata parsing has been improved. Loading speed has been improved.
    • EncryptedRoot.plist.wipekey files is no longer required for a lot of tasks;
    • Unicode passwords are supported now.
  • BitLocker
    • Added support of Partitions with few recovery keys;
    • Added support of Unicode passwords.
  • VeraCrypt
    • Added support of VeraCrypt (though without Camellia and Kuznechik algorithms for now).
  • F2FS File system
    • Primary support of FS added.
  • NTFS file system
    • Added parser for NTFS LogFile. LogFile contains NTFS metadata changes (MFT, Index). Option is in the context menu of file system node (menu "Parse LFS", LFS stands for Log File Service). As a result, the virtual disk with so-called layers is created. It's possible to select a layer on the disk. Layer presents a snapshot of metadata at a certain time period. Number of layers correlates with the "age" of the layer. Based on practice, LogFile can contain metadata for a time period from several hours to several months.
    • Implemented basic support for the new type of EFS metadata.
    • Improved start offset detection for partitions with huge amount of non-resident catalogs;
    • Added support for MFT uploading for tasks with several disks.
    • Implemented saving procedure for deduplicated files with resident attribute C0.
  • UFS file system
    • Improves partition analysis with file extensions with more than 8 unicode symbols.
  • ExFAT file system
    • Improved partition analysis. Added parser for objects addressed by FAT table without descriptors in catalogs (LostFatObjects node).
  • FAT file system
    • Improved analysis for cases with more than 10000 catalogs;
    • Added support for the FAT table with more than 200000 sectors.
  • HFS+ file system
    • Improved performance of partition analysis.

Silicon Motion

  • eNew loaders have been added for SM2246EN and SM2246XT controllers;
  • During translator building an output of the total number of defective pages has been added into the log;
  • Tests for translator saving and uploading have been added;
  • Verification of wrong memory ID has been added into log during drive initialization and in "Memory chips test"
  • SM2246EN (SATA) controller:
    • New family Transcend 370s has been added;
  • SM2258XT (SATA) controller:
    • New family Silicon Power S55 has been added;
  • SM2260G (NVMe) controller:
    • New family ADATA XPG SX7000 has been added;
  • SM2263XT (NVMe) controller:
    • The following families have been added: AMD Radeon R5, Transcend MTE110S, Lexar NM600, Neo Forza Zion NFP03, HP EX900.

Phison

  • For PS3108, PS3111 and AS2258 controllers new loaders have been added;
  • Algorithm for correct Loader version autodetection in case if SSD stays in SAFE MODE has been improved;
  • Verification of wrong memory ID has been added into log during drive initialization and in "Memory chips test".
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