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.
VHD Recovery: Breaking the Boot Cycle
There are few things in this world more frustrating than to be caught in an endless reboot cycle. But while these cycles usually don’t indicate a hard drive failure and can be fixed, sometimes it’s just because your hard drive…
Hitachi Hard Drive Repair: A Tale of Two Drives
The client in this data recovery case came to us for our Hitachi hard drive repair services. In their computer they’d had a 500 GB Hitachi hard drive storing their data and a 16 GB SanDisk solid state drive doing some of…
EFS Recovery Case Study: No Bootable Device Found in BIOS
The client in this EFS data recovery case had a problem with their Liteon SSD. Their Windows laptop was not detecting the SSD as a valid boot device, telling them that no boot device could be found. They also could…
Hard Drive Reformat: A Modern Palimpsest
This client came to Gillware’s data recovery lab after an accidental reformat cut them off from their collection of family photos and documents. They had wanted to free up space on their drive, and thought they had their files backed…
Slow Hard Drive: My Book Data Recovery
The client in this Western Digital My Book data recovery case had a terminally slow hard drive. Eventually, after a few weeks of life in the slow lane, the client’s hard drive finally became inaccessible. Unfortunately, the client hadn’t managed…
Maxtor Data Recovery: Taking Control
The client in this data recovery case came to us after their Maxtor hard drive had bitten the dust. Their important photos and documents were stranded on the hard drive they’d pulled from their computer—which was now, to them at…
USB Data Recovery Case Study: A Cautionary Tale
USB Data Recovery: USB Not Recognized When you too hastily eject your USB flash drive and your PC won’t recognize it anymore, which part of the drive has failed? Mechanically, your flash drive is still fine. The USB plug itself…
SQL Data Recovery: Hard Drive Boot Error
The client in this SQL data recovery case had been storing the database for their small business’s point-of-sale (POS) system on an 80 GB Seagate hard drive. One day, they lost access to their SQL database. Without the database, their…
Samsung SSD Recovery Case Study: Form Factor Fricassee
In this Samsung SSD recovery case, our client came to us with the solid state drive from their notebook PC. They were having a problem booting into Windows. BIOS could detect the presence of the drive, but would fail to…