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.
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Hard Drive Beeping: Why It Happens & How We Fix It – Seagate Case Study
Seagate Drive Repair Case Study: Hard Drive BeepingDrive Model: Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD ST500LM000Drive Capacity: 500 GBOperating System: WindowsSituation: Client updated the BIOS on Dell E6500 series laptop and afterward, the system would no longer boot. The client’s inaccessible hard…
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. Drive Model: Western Digital WD10JPVX-75JC3T0Drive Capacity: 1 TBOperating System: WindowsSituation: HDD spins up and is recognized but is inaccessibleType of Data Recovered: Pictures, Quicken…
Why is Your Hard Drive Not Spinning?
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…
“This is a NAS data disk and cannot boot system” Error Message
Update 1/15/19: This article has been updated with new information about the “this is a NAS data disk and cannot boot system. System halted” error message and how to fix it. You’ve been working on your NAS disks, or maybe…
Windows Error Code 0xc00000e9: What Is It and How To Fix
What Is Error Code 0xc00000e9? Error code 0xc00000e9 is a specific boot error code you might see if your PC is having difficulty booting up. Instead of the familiar Windows logo upon booting up your computer, you’ll see a blank…
Short DST Failed! Disk Self Testing: The Long and Short of It
