Brian Gill
Brian holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a software architect and data recovery expert.
The Grey Screen of Death: Top 3 Mac Nightmares
Updated 12/30/2021 At Gillware, we’ve had heard all the stories when it comes to computer failure; You dropped your MacBook or spilled coffee all over the keyboard You left your computer alone for a while and came back to a…
Windows Users Beware: Missing BitLocker Recovery Key + Corrupt Windows = Bad News
What happens when you have BitLocker enabled and your Windows installation becomes corrupt, leaving you no longer able to boot into Windows? Normally you would go into Recovery Mode. The device asks you for your BitLocker recovery key which, if…
7 Things To Know About Apple File System (APFS)
Our data recovery experts know computers backward, forward, inside and out. We have to. In this post, our Mac data recovery expert Charles talks a bit about the new file system introduced by Apple. Apple’s new file system for macOS High…
Top 3 Things to Do Before Upgrading to macOS High Sierra
Our data recovery experts know computers backward, forward, inside and out. We have to. In this post, our Mac data recovery expert Charles talks a bit about some of the changes the new macOS High Sierra makes and what you…
RAID 5 Failure Tips: How to Keep Data Recovery Possible
In a separate article, I shared some observations about how to set up a RAID 5 to make failure less likely. These observations were based on thousands of successful data recovery cases. But if your RAID has already failed, here are 12 RAID…
RAID-5 Setup Tips: How to Avoid the Data Recovery Lab
By Brian Gill, CEO Gillware Inc. Data Recovery Having run one of the world’s most successful data recovery labs for over a decade now, I’ve seen thousands of RAID 5 data loss situations that probably could have been avoided by following these…