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.
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…
Samsung Data Recovery: Windows Boot Error
This client came to us for Samsung data recovery services after their computer stopped booting from their Samsung HM321HI hard drive. The computer had trouble reading the hard drive, and while it could see a device to boot from, it couldn’t…
RAID-10 Recovery Case Study: Failed Virtual Disk
The client in this RAID-10 recovery case study came to us after their Dell RAID-10 server had crashed. After restarting the Dell PowerEdge server, the RAID controller reported that the virtual disk had failed. Two drives in the array were…
Risky RAID-5 VHDX Rebuild
In this VHDX recovery case study, the client had several Hyper-V virtual machines stored in the VHDX format on their three-drive RAID-5 server. The RAID-5 server was comprised of two 600 GB Western Digital SAS hard drives and one HP…
Beeping Seagate Hard Drive Caused by Stuck Read/Write Heads
The client in this data recovery case study came to us with a beeping Seagate hard drive. When they powered on their laptop one morning, it wouldn’t boot. The computer told them that the hard drive was not detected. So the client…
RAID-5 Crash Video: How Not to Keep Data Recovery Possible
After a RAID-5 crash, your data is especially vulnerable. How you treat your crashed server before you bring it to a data recovery lab can have a huge effect on a data recovery lab’s chances of success at recovering your data.…
Planned Obsolescence in External Hard Drives
Planned obsolescence is a term that was first coined by real estate broker Bernard London during the Great Depression. It was his philosophy to stimulate growth by making products that were deliberately designed to fail, forcing consumers to replace older…