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.
Tandberg RDX Quikstor Data Recovery: When a Tape is Not a Tape
When is a tape not a tape? When it’s a Tandberg RDX Quikstor RDX cartridge! In this Tandberg RDX Quikstor data recovery case study, a client from a medical clinic came to us with what appeared to be magnetic tape…
Dell EqualLogic PS4100 Data Recovery Case Study: 24-Drive RAID-50
The client in this case had a Dell EqualLogic PS4100 SAN. This SAN was filled with 24 300-GB enterprise-grade Seagate hard drives. These 24 hard drives were combined in a RAID-50 array with two hot spares. RAID-50, in general, has…
Motorola Droid MOTXT1254BN64 Data Recovery Case Study
Mobile phones have become an integral part of our daily lives. Phones store our photos, our messages, our contacts, and our memories. They connect us to the world. But they are also several-hundred-dollar, fragile pieces of technology that sit in our…
OWC Aura SSD Data Recovery Case Study: Boot Failure
In this case, a client from a medical clinic came to us for our data recovery services. Using Parallels Desktop, they had been storing medical records on an OWC Aura SSD. The OWC Aura SSD was designed as a high-capacity…
Seagate Barracuda with Boot Error
A Sweet Windows 10 Upgrade Turns Sour Back in the spring and summer of 2015, Microsoft made a huge show out of its brand-new Windows 10 operating system. Many Windows users were excited. Windows operating systems seemed to follow the same…
GoPro Videos Recovered from PNY microSD Card
microSD cards seem almost excessively tiny. They can fit comfortably on a dime. And yet that tiny package can store dozens or hundreds of gigabytes of data. They seem to be a tiny mystery. But they are actually just the same…
RAID-0 Data Recovery Case Study: “File is Empty” Error
In this RAID-0 data recovery scenario, the client woke up one morning to find that the RAID-0 array they used to store their WordPerfect files had failed overnight. Like most failed hard drives and RAID arrays, the device had been…
SD Card File Recovery Case Study: SanDisk SDHC Memory Card
If you crack open an SD card, you’ll likely be able to see the NAND flash memory chip. NAND flash has become the go-to for solid state data storage in this day and age. You can find it in not…
Dell Server Recovery: PowerEdge Foreign Configuration
In this Dell server recovery scenario, the client’s server fell victim to a power outage. When the power came back on, the Dell PERC 6/i RAID controller card reported two errors. One drive had failed. Another drive was reported as having a…