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An In-Depth Look at Ransomware
What is Ransomware? Ransomware is malware that is created for the express purpose of making a profit, traditionally via extorting its victims. There are many types of ransomware, but by far the two most popular types are locker ransomware and…
Semaphore Timeout Period Has Expired, Error 0x80070079
A “semaphore” is a type of programming object used in multi-threaded processing across networked devices. The semaphore timeout tends to happen when copying large amounts of data to external hard drives or networked machines. What is semaphore? The word ‘semaphore’…
Data Recovery from a Hard Drive with Bad Sectors
Bad sectors can occur on mechanical hard drives, modern solid-state drives (SSD), and many forms of digital media including USB drives, memory cards and externally attached storage. Bad sectors can cause software errors or hardware faults on a storage device.…
Hard Drive Cover Removal: Seriously, Don’t Do It
This classic video from our archive confronts an issue that remains as important as ever to data recovery. We know people are naturally curious, but that curiosity can sometimes threaten the chances of successful data recovery. Why You Should Never…
The Password Switch: How Safe is Your Cyberspace with Two-Factor Authentication?
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. New cyber threats are emerging all the time, and it’s up to you to keep up to date on the risks… and what you need to do to protect yourself. In this guest…
Fixing an External Hard Drive
When an external hard drive stops working or your external hard drive is not responding, there are a couple of basic troubleshooting tests. This post isn’t completely focused on fixing the drive, as the only reason most people want to…
Computer Data Recovery Basics: Hard Drives and Solid State Drives
When you hear your hard drive clicking, when your solid state drive stops working for one of a myriad of reasons, or when your computer stops recognizing your drive altogether, your first instinct is to panic. It’s a normal human reaction…
April 2017 Small Business NAS Review – Synology DS1815+
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”17069″ img_size=”700×600″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When it comes to running a business, the question of data storage can be tricky. Requirements usually exceed simply buying some cheap external storage, but most small businesses can’t justify the cost of buying an expensive enterprise-grade…
April 2017 Consumer SSD Review – Samsung 850 EVO
While most SSD reviews lean heavily upon the facts and figures surrounding speed and price, as a data recovery lab, we tend to favor other qualities. These include things like reliability, security, ease of setup and even the warranty. If…
False Capacity Flash Drives
A few weeks ago, a case came through Gillware’s doors related to a flash drive that was reading as 64GB in size, and yet would only save up to 8GB of data. After greater than 8GB had been written to the…
Degaussing and Sanitizing: Intentional Data Destruction
Degaussing a hard drive is the process of using a strong magnetic field to erase the data from the magnetic substrate of the hard drive platters. That basically just means taking a hard drive and holding it against a big magnet.…
Spotting Email Scams
This morning, our Technical Lead sent out a rather concerned company-wide email related to a potential malware threat delivered via email. The email in question was sent to one of our data recovery engineers by the address “[email protected],” which isn’t…