Will Ascenzo
Will is the lead blogger, copywriter, and copy editor for Gillware Data Recovery and Digital Forensics, and a staunch advocate against the abuse of innocent semicolons.
Fixing a BOOTMGR Image Error (The Hard Way)
When you turn on your PC, you expect to see the Windows startup screen shortly afterward, followed by your familiar Windows login screen. You don’t expect to encounter a boot error instead—but when it happens, it happens. In this data…
Laptop Water Damage Data Recovery
Spilled Water on Laptop – What’s At Risk? A glass of water, juice, tea, or anything else can wreak havoc on your laptop computer’s keyboard. Spilling water on laptop computers can mean that water seeps through the keyboard and get…
Your Backup is Swiss Cheese
The moon isn’t made of green cheese. However, the Earth is. Swiss cheese, in fact. In 1990 British psychologists James Reason and Dante Orlandella coined the “Swiss Cheese Model” to explain how disaster can befall even the most prepared organization.…
Hard Drive Beeping: Why It Happens & How We Fix It – Seagate Case Study
If your computer can’t boot up and you can hear it making weak beeping noises, open it up and listen closer. That beeping noise could be coming from your computer’s hard disk drive, and if that is where the noise…
Purple Screen Of Death (PSOD) Data Recovery
Businesses throughout the United States rely on VMware virtualization products for day-to-day business operations. Despite the rise of cloud computing, VMware has remained a very popular solution used by small, medium, and large enterprise organizations. The core VMware products are…
Boot Device Not Found: How to Fix a No Boot Device Found Error
“Boot Device Not Found.” Many of the most vexing errors you’ll encounter on your laptop or desktop computer leave pretty cryptic messages behind for you to decipher… but thankfully, some of them are fairly simple, like a “boot device not…
How to Recover Data on an Ext4 File System
Whether you’re dealing with accidentally-deleted files, deleted or corrupted LUNs, or issues with an unresponsive NAS server or virtual machine setup, it can be a challenge to recover data on an Ext4 file system, even when there are plenty of…
Creating a Server Disaster Recovery Plan
We all know that the world isn’t perfect, and disaster can strike at any moment. This can be a natural disaster, a power outage, a fire, a flood, physical fault in the server caused by one or two hard disk…
Fix a Bent USB Drive/Broken USB Drive
The tiny thumb-sized USB flash drives/USB sticks we use to carrying data files around in our pockets are an odd mix of both fragility and resilience. These “thumb drives” or “jump drives” can survive perilous falls that would put any spinning disk…
How to Fix a “Default Boot Device Missing” Error
Update 1-23-2019: This article has been updated with additional details on how to fix boot errors. What does a “Default Boot Device Missing” error mean? A “Default Boot Device Missing” error is a startup error you might see on your…
Why is Your Hard Drive Not Spinning?
Update 1/18/2019 – This article has been updated with more detailed information about why hard disk drives stop spinning and what end users can do about it. Since the invention of the gramophone, most forms of audiovisual recording and data…
Dell Error Code 0141: What It Means and How To Fix It
If you have a Dell PC that is currently displaying an Error 2000-0141 message when you try to boot it up, you’re probably very frustrated right now. However, while a Dell error code 0141 message can be a sign of…