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.
Hard Drive Crash: Was Windows 10 to Blame?
Earlier in 2016, Microsoft triggered waves of complaints after seemingly luring Windows 7 and 8 users into upgrading to Windows 10. The upgrade popups Microsoft had been using to pester users had been becoming increasingly deceptive, making it harder to…
RAID Partition Recovery Case: Drobo – Invalid Partition Table
The client in this data recovery case came to us when their Drobo unit suddenly showed up as blank on their Windows PC. Drobo units, designed by Data Robotics, combine multiple hard disk drives into single massive storage volumes, but…
USB Not Recognized?
[vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The client in this data recovery case study had a USB thumb drive that no longer did anything when they plugged it in. The thumb drive was well and truly dead. Unfortunately, the client had been using…
HP Data Recovery: Boot Selection Failed
The client in this HP data recovery case study came to us for our Toshiba hard drive repair services. The Toshiba hard drive inside their HP Pavilion laptop had gone kaput, producing a Windows boot error message. Their BIOS informed…
My Book Live Data Recovery Case Study: Inaccessible NAS Device
In this data recovery case, our client had a Western Digital network-attached storage device. A network-attached storage device, or NAS, is accessible not via a USB cable, but rather by an ethernet cable. The device plugs directly into the user’s…
USB Flash Drive Showing Windows Error Code 43
USB Drive Repair – What Does “Error Code 43” Mean? When this client plugged their USB flash drive into their computer, they received a message telling them that their USB device had malfunctioned. The client opened the Device Manager to…
VDI Recovery: Hard Drive PCB Replacement
The client in this case had been storing Oracle VDI files on their computer’s internal Western Digital hard drive. A VDI file, or “virtual disk image”, contains the contents of an entire “virtual” hard drive inside a single large file.…
File Recovery: Recovering Deleted Files
The client in this file recovery case was having a day like any other. Their PC was running just fine. Nothing on their computer’s hard drive was out of place. When their antivirus software updated itself, they paid it no…
WD My Book Raw Hard Drive Recovery
The client in this case study had owned a Western Digital My Book external hard drive. The drive had worked fine, up until its USB port broke. The client removed the hard drive from its external enclosure to recover its…