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.
Windows File Recovery: Recovering from a Reinstall
It happens to the best of us sometimes. You reformat your PC’s hard drive and install a nice, fresh version of Windows on it. You get a little bit of that figurative “new computer smell” back in your life. Life…
Recovering Photos from PNY SD Card That Won’t Read
Memory Card Photo Recovery: How to Recover Pictures from an SD Card Think of your SD card as a long, sandy beach. Imagine each file living in that card is a tiny bit of metal—a wristwatch, or a coin, or a…
HDD PCB Repair: More Than Meets the Eye
The client in this data recovery case had been storing their company’s Peachtree financial database on an old Seagate Barracuda hard drive. Eventually, as all hard drives do, the old Seagate hard drive installed in the client’s computer gave up…
When Good SD Cards Go Bad
Updated 1/7/2019 What Makes a Good SD Card Go Bad? Good SD cards can go bad for a variety of reasons. There is a long list of potential culprits in situations like this, ranging from “you ejected the card too…
Seagate NAS Recovery Case Study: Firmware Foibles
The client in this data recovery case came to us for our Seagate NAS recovery services. This client had been using their Seagate Central NAS device for remote storage. Over time, the device had started to behave oddly, intermittently refusing to…
Data Recovered from a Formatted SD Card
The client in this memory card recovery case study had an eight-gigabyte SanDisk SD card full of videos. Or, at least, it had been full of videos, until they reformatted it. Soon after they’d reformatted the memory card and wiped…
QNAP NAS Recovery Case Study: It’s (QNAP) Turbo Time
Our client here brought their QNAP Turbo NAS device to Gillware when their data became inaccessible. The TVS-471, with three hard drives in a RAID-5 array, held their business’ entire financial records. When it stopped responding, those records went up…
Fixing a Smoking Hard Drive
Someday, the hard disk drive inside your computer may become a fire hazard. In this data recovery case, our client came to us for our hard disk repair services after their computer began to smoke, make crackling noises, and emit a…
Escaping a Windows 10 Startup Repair Loop… With Gillware’s Help
If you depend on your computer (as many of us do), few things in this world can make your heart skip a beat like an infinite startup repair loop. When Window’s own startup repair gets stuck, it’s easy to fear…