ChallengerOS Rocket, Leading Data Recovery Environment

Challenger Rocket: An Introduction

Challenger Rocket is a Linux ChallengerOS 64 bit Package designed for data recovery purposes. It has been built to read hard disk drives with several types of damages and to perform a perfect hard drive image skipping damaged areas or lba blocks.

Rocket uses an amazing IO Physical Protocol to get the most readable area from a damaged device. The Unique Reading Algorithm will bypass completely operating system queues, caches and IO subsystem to get you into the hard disk drive hardware.

Challenger Rocket has grown into Recovery Italia Data Recovery facility to perform internal recovery tasks as private project, but now it's a public product.Challenger OS is based on Patrick Volkerding's Slackware Linux. It is stable, fast, and can be flashed onto a USB stick of virtually any size. It can be used on any Personal Computer, Server, or Notebook.

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Device Diagnostic Tests

Read Verify Test

The ATA READ VERIFY Test ( 0x40,0x42 Command ) is a fast method to check ATA / SATA Devices addressable area status. In Verify protocol no data is transferred from the device to the host.

Read Sectors Test

The ATA READ SECTOR Test will check ATA / SATA Devices addressable area status. In Read Sectors protocol data is transferred from the device to the host in a dummy buffer. User can enable or disable Direct Memory Access to increase data exchange speed.

Secure Erase Test

Rocket includes several Secure Erase Functions based on Sector Overwrite Method. In a Secure Erase Test, Device Sectors will be erased with different patterns according to Secure Erase International Standards. Secure erase Test will Recertificate Selected Device wiping all contents permanently.

Quick Binary Analysis

Rocket has the ability to switch reading protocol in Real-Time to achieve the best reading performances. Switching protocols is strategical to perform atomic reading of bad hard drive areas disabling operating system caches and queues.

ULTRA FAST Imaging System

Rocket offers the world fastest reading algorithm for Cloning, Imaging and Forensic Acquisition Tasks. Combinating PCIe PRO Card with internal SATA Hard Drives, you'll build-up the best data recovery workstation ever.

LBA Maps are available in compressed and plain formats. Plain formats can be exchanged with PC3000, MRT and UFS PROFESSIONAL.

Logical Block Area Maps

Rocket will store any sector reading result in LBA Maps Files. LBA Maps are strategical in order to track bad areas or readed zones avoiding reading same block twice or to retry a critical damaged zone.

Challenger Rocket will store any sector reading result in LBA Maps Files.

Selectable Skipped Areas Tolerance

Rocket will detect automatically the device's damaged areas and it will optimize overall the readable surface with an integrated butterfly functions.
When a bad block is detected, bad zone will be "flagged" and skipped to avoid critical retry and the next readable zone will be searched.

Head Map Builder

Often a "bad" or "weak" hard drive head will completely freeze device from working. Rocket embeds special "VSC" commands to interact with specific vendor firmware and rebuild the logical head map.

After creating the device head map, the user will have the chance to remove bad head from reading map and perform a selective reading of working zones.

Hard Drives Logical Head Map

Head Map is a Rocket Built-in Feature capable to read internal Hard Drive Firmware Modules using Factory Secret VSC Commands. Using Head Map information User Will be able to deactivate logically critical Hard Drive Heads and to create a partial disk image using the working heads, avoiding a Clean Room Head Stack Transplant.

Challenger Rocket Head Map Support Table

Manufacturer	Family	BUS	Compatible
Seagate	F3	SATA	85%
Western Digital	Marvell	SATA	100%
Western Digital	Marvell	USB	85%
Toshiba	2.5	SATA	100%
Samsung	SpinPoint	SATA	45%

Mixing Source Device and Target Stream

In almost any Data Recovery Task, professionals need to retrieve, from a damaged device, the most readable area in a reduced time since catastrophical failures could occurr suddenly.

Challenger Rocket will Mix Source device readed data and target device tracking readed or skipped sectors in LBA Maps.

Reading Sectors from unreadable Hard Drives

When you plug your Hard Drive to Windows © or OSX © operating system tries to mount device setting up disk for the best performance. Operating system simply expects a perfect working device. If connected device does respond slowly or exposes bad sectors operating system could freeze or in most of cases will not detect connected hard drive.

You won't believe it until you see it. Rocket has the ability to Recover your Damaged Hard Disk Drive that any other system does not recognize at all. Using Specific and Unique Reading System Protocol, Rocket can operate on Damaged Hard Disk Drives with any kind of damage.

Connection	POSIX	SAT	CDB	PHYS
Challenger PCIe SATA
Internal SATA/ATA
PCI SAS / SCSI / FIBER CHANNEL
Internal USB
PCIe NVME
USB PEN DRIVE / SD CARDS

Accessing Devices in True Physical Mode

With Challenger PCIe cards, advanced users will be able to understand and have a correct diagnostics of devices behaviour. Challenger PCIe connected hard drives will offer Physical Status Register displayed in real-time. Status Register Analysis is crucial for detecting hard drive firmware issues and plan the optimal data recovery strategy.

Challenger PCIe LITE Card

The PCIe LITE is the Entry Level Card for Data Recovery Technicians.
LITE card offers excellent performances in a compact design at lower price.
LITE cards offers device physical registers access and complete full physical management.

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Challenger PCIe PRO Card

The PCIe PRO is the STATE OF ART Recovery System.
PRO system offers a complete 2 channel digital managed power system for handle any kind on hard drive behaviour.

PRO Card Power system offers a full automated and programmable reading algorithm which will help Data Recovery Professional to recover any kind of hard drive, such SSDs, SATA, SAS devices.

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Challenger PCIe Cards Comparison

ChallengerOS Development Team is Proud to present the new Data Recovery PCIe Cards.
Challenger PCIe cards were created in a Real Data Recovery Facility to help Specialists in all hard drive recovery processes.

Challenger PCIe Card Comparison Table

PCIe CARD	IO PORTS	SPEED	POWER SYSTEM	PHYSICAL ACCESS
LITE	2 SATA	6Gbit	MANUAL	FULL
PRO	2 SATA	6Gbit	2 X DIGITAL	FULL

Challenger PCIe Cards Available Licenses

PCIe CARD	LICENSE
PCIe LITE	MONTHLY
PCIe PRO	YEAR / LIFETIME

How Challenger PCIe Card Work

Challenger PCIe connected devices are handled by internal dedicated driver which cannot be handled by Operating System.
PCI Board will be dramatically effective in any forensic or hard drive data recovery case where do still exist a device readiness state.

Complete Device Physical Control

Challenger PCIe Cards offer to professional a complete device registry interface and the chance to customize all device behaviour, setting up interrupt latency, delays, reset commands delays, grace time on shutting down devices.

Challenger Rocket Main Interface with Seagate F3 connected in PCIe Mode.

Professional Reading Algorithms

Complex Reading Algorithms will help Specialists in retrieving the most readable logical block areas.

Native Physical Write Protection

PCIe Cards Connected Devices are handled only by Challenger Rocket Software which comes with a native read-only reading protocol.
This will guarantee 100% write protection for forensic samples and the total security of digital artifacts.

Forensic Specialists use Challenger PCIe Board for imaging any block device creating several disk image types.
Saved images can be opened and analyzed with Challenger Rocket itself or other forensic or data recovery tools.

Challenger Rocket Physical Status Register.

Hardware Specifications and Features

Compliant with Serial ATA Specification 3.0.
Supports communication speeds of 6.0 Gbps, 3.0 Gbps, and 1.5 Gbps.
Supports programmable transmitter signal levels.
Supports Gen 1i, Gen 1x, Gen 2i, Gen 2m, Gen 2x, and Gen 3i.
Supports two SATA ports.
Supports AHCI 1.0 and IDE programming interface.

Challenger Rocket Performance Chart on Toshiba Sata in Physical Mode.

PCIe Cards Device Support

Challenger PCIe Cards will give you a total control of connected devices. The unique communication protocol give professionals a complete VSC access to protected and hidden service area zones.
Data Recovery Techicians will be able to perform read/write firmware operations on hard drive service area modules and zones, repairing hard drive when needed.

HARD DRIVE	SUPPORT	READING	FIRWMARE REPAIR	HEAD MAP	PHYSICAL ACCESS
WESTERN DIGITAL 3.5 MARVELL	100%	READ/WRITE	SUPPORTED	SUPPORTED	FULL
WESTERN DIGITAL 2.5 MARVELL	100%	READ/WRITE	SUPPORTED	SUPPORTED	FULL
SEAGATE BARRACUDA F3 3.5	100%	READ/WRITE	SUPPORTED	SUPPORTED	FULL
SEAGATE BARRACUDA F3 2.5	100%	READ/WRITE	SUPPORTED	SUPPORTED	FULL
HITACHI 2.5		READ/WRITE			FULL
HITACHI 3.5		READ/WRITE			FULL
SAMSUNG 3.5		READ/WRITE			FULL
SAMSUNG 2.5		READ/WRITE			FULL
USB HARD DRIVE	SUPPORT	READING	FIRWMARE REPAIR	HEAD MAP	PHYSICAL ACCESS
WESTERN DIGITAL 2.5 USB	100%	READ/WRITE	SUPPORTED	SUPPORTED	FULL
TOSHIBA DIGITAL 2.5 USB		READ/WRITE			FULL
SEAGATE 2.5 USB		READ/WRITE			FULL
SAMSUNG 2.5 USB		READ/WRITE			FULL
SSD	SUPPORT	READING	FIRWMARE REPAIR	ADAPTOR	PHYSICAL ACCESS
SSD 2.5		READ/WRITE			FULL
SSD M2		READ/WRITE		REQUIRED	FULL
SSD NVME		READ/WRITE		REQUIRED PCIE	FULL
APPLE SSD		READ/WRITE		REQUIRED PCIE	FULL

Mastering External Disk Drives with Rocket

Customer Knows how is big and how is fast.
But how long it will last ?

The answer is: They really don't know.

We Programmed Rocket to Handle any Kind of problem on any external hard drive. ChallengerOS supports any External Block Device Memory, like USB,FIREWIRE,ESATA and connected Cameras.

Partition Detection System

Rocket will Recognize both MBR Legacy Partition Scheme and GPT Layouts.

Partition Scan System

Rocket has built-in signatures for detecting lost partitions when Master Boot Record or GPT structures are not available or corrupted.

File System iNode Atomic Access

While accessing to File System iNodes, Rocket will reduce hard drive requests to single atomic commands optimizing results even if device has several damaged blocks located in critical areas.

Advanced File System Analysis

Rocket will Recognize both MBR Legacy Partition Scheme and GPT Layouts.

Data recovery from embedded storage devices

Most of common Laptops are assembled in a very thin form. If a data recovery or memory forensic acquisition task is needed, extracting device from computer could be really tricky or dangerous for screen. ChallengerOS is the only data recovery system capable of acquiring internal disk devices without disassembling computer or removing flash chips from hardware.