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| Data recovery Hard Drives tools |
| for repairing HDD IDE |
PC-3000" is a hardware-software Complex, a professional tool for data recovery on IDE drives of all modifications with capacities ranging from 20 Mb to 120 Gb: Western Digital, Fujitsu, Quantum, IBM, Seagate, Samsung, Maxtor, and Conner.
The use of “ÐÑ-3000” enables the user to repair 50-80% of damaged HDDs. This unusually high success rate is achieved by using a special drive’s operating mode (similar to that used by HDD manufacturers) during which the following operations are possible: Restoration of the Low-Level Format; Restoration of the Resident Microcode; Restoration or Modification of parameters in disc’s ID (Identify Drv); Replacement of defective sectors or tracks by reserving sectors or skipping sectors during drive’s operation (Assign, Reallocate, Skip Defects); HDD Reconfiguration by means of skipping defective areas of the magnetic surfaces or turning off defective heads.
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| The basic principles of HDD repair using "ÐÑ-3000" |
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Complex "ÐÑ-3000" works in any PC (from i386 to Pentium IV). The essential hardware part of «ÐÑ-3000» is the special tester-board “PC-3000 PRO”.
The drive to be repaired is connected to the «PC-3000 PRO» board (which plugs into a host PC) and an external power source +5V, +12V (a common PC power source). The software of the Complex is to be installed on the host computer. The software requires about 160 Mb of disk space.
The primary HDD diagnostics are performed with the universal utility «PC-3000 ÀÒ». Any results are displayed via video output of the host PC, and can optionally be saved as a file, or printed.
The recovery procedure itself is performed by different utilities, which are unique to each HDD family (see HDD models supported by PC-3000 Ver 14.50). The process of disk restoration may involve one or more of the following steps:
- restoration of the damaged resident microcode;
- servo test and hiding tracks with the damaged servos;
- Low-level formatting (this procedure is done by the drive itself without computing by the host PC).
- Media scan – search for defective sectors and their hiding (Assign, Reallocate, Skip Defects). This is accomplished with the use of a drive’s special zone which is specifically reserved for this purpose (reserved zone).
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| Tester-board "ÐÑ-3000 PRO" |
The tester-board of «PC-3000 PRO» is built on the basis of a chipset ASIC and has following technical characteristics:
- it has a built-in IRQ controller.
- it has a built-in timer-counter, which allows to measure time parameters of an HDD.
- it has a hardware data buffer and hardware sub system for data transfer
- the board hosts an additional IDE interface and has pins to connect an external LED
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Question: What is tester-board "ÐÑ-3000 PRO" used for?
Answer: PC-3000 PRO is essential for accurate diagnostics of HDD failures and their revival to an operational state in a special technological mode (Super On).
Question: Does the complex "ÐÑ-3000" work under Windows?
Answer: The complex works under Windows, but only outside the Grafic Users Interface shell loaded (DOS emulation mode).
Question: Can PC3000 repair and revive HDDs that are not on the list of drives provided?
Answer: "ÐÑ-3000ÀÒ" and "PC-DEFECTOSCOPE" consist of a collection of universal utilities, which allow the diagnose and recovery of virtually any IDE drive. However, the specialized tools provide greater functionality, thus their effectiveness of recovery is much higher.
Question: What is the purpose of the PC-Kalok, PC-Seagate, PC-Conner, PC-Quantum, PC-Teac adapters?
Answer: The adapters are essential for the accurate diagnosis and successful recovery of HDDs via a special technological interface (TSO).
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- Ver. 14.50 - February 2005
Utilities for repairing and data recovery of Samsung family: VICTOR, PUMA, VICTOR PLUS, VERNA was included, the technologies allowing the repair of existing drives WD, IBM, MAXTOR was improved.
- Ver. 14.01 - October 2004
The technologies allowing the repair of existing drives FUJITSU MPF AT, MPG AT/AH, IBM, WD AA was improved, and a new utility for Seagate U4, U8/10, U6 drives was added.
- Ver. 14 - March 2004
Utilities for repairing new families of HDDs is included, also the technologies of repairing existing drives Maxtor, IBM, WD, Fujitsu, Quantum was improved.
- Ver. 12 - April 2003 (Comtech-2003)
Utilities for repairing HDDs WD (DA, EB, AB, BB, JB), IBM (DJN, DPT, DTL, AVR, AVA), Maxtor (DSP, POKER), Seagate (Uxx) was incorporated into the set.
- English version - December, 2002.
English utilities for HDD repairing is released
- Ver. 11 - April, 2002. (Comtech-2002)
Utilities for repairing drives Quantum and Maxtor are included into the complex, as well as first utilities for IBM drives
- Ver. 10.10 - April, 2001 (Comtech-2001)
Utilities for repairing drives Fujitsu, Quantum, Western Digital are included into the complex. The old control-board «ÐÑ-3000AT» is replaced with the new board "ÐÑ-3000 PRO".
- Ver. 9.40 - November, 2000
- Ver. 9.02 – May,2000
- Ver. 9.00 - January, 2000
- Ver. 8.52 - November, 1999
- Ver. 8.50 - July, 1999
First utilities for recovering Fujitsu drives are included into the complex.
- Ver. 8.02 - February, 1999
- Ver. 8.01 - January, 1999
- Ver. 8.00 – December, 1998
- Ver. 7.31 - July, 1998
- Ver. 7.30 - April, 1998
- Ver. 6.70 - January, 1998
First utilities for recovering Quantum drives are included into the complex.
- Ver. 6.30 – October, 1997
- Ver. 6.20 – August, 1997
The complex already includes about 40 utilities for recovery of the drives produced by Western Digital, Seagate, Conner, Maxtor, Samsung and other manufacturers.
- Ver. 6.01 – May, 1997
- Ver. 6.00 - April, 1997 (Comtech-97)
- Ver. 5.60 - January, 1997
- Ver. 5.10 - November, 1996
- Ver. 4.30 - September, 1996
- Ver. 4.21 – August, 1996
- Ver. 4.20 - July, 1996
- Ver. 4.01 – May,1996
- Ver. 4.00 - April, 1996 (Comtech-96)
- Ver. 3.80 – February, 1996
- Ver. 3.60 – November, 1995
- Ver. 3.30 – July, 1995
- Ver. 3.00 – April, 1995 (Comtech-95)
- Ver. 2.50 – January, 1995
- Ver. 2.10 – September, 1994
- Ver. 2.00 – April, 1994 (Comtech-94)
The first version of the Complex, which along side with the universal utility ÐÑ-3000AT includes a utility for recovery of HDD Western Digital, WD93044 family.
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- Electronic protection key - 1 piece.
- Tester "ÐÑ-3000 PRO" - 1 piece.
- Power control adapter PC3K-PWR - 1 piece.
- Adapter "ÐÑ-KALOK" - 1 piece.
- Adapter "ÐÑ-CONNER" - 1 piece.
- Transistor "PC-QUANTUM" - 1 piece.
- Transistor «PC-SEAGATE» - 1 piece.
- Transistor «PC-TEAC» - 1 piece.
- IDE interface cable (40 pins) - 1 piece.
- «COM» cable (9 pins), for connecting up "ÐÑ-KALOK" and "ÐÑ-CONNER" adapters to ÑÎÌ-port of the control PC - 1 piece.
- «HDD» cable (9 pins), for connecting up "ÐÑ-KALOK" and "ÐÑ-CONNER" adapters either to the drive’s technological slot or to transistors «PC-QUANTUM», «PC-SEAGATE» and «PC-TEAC» - 1 piece.
- Software of the complex "ÐÑ-3000" - 1 CD.
- Technical instructions in English (1 book).
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