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.
FileVault 2 Data Recovery Case Study: Macbook Pro
This client brought their hard drive to us after being met with the “Gray Screen of Death.” The failed Hitachi hard drive pulled from their Macbook Pro was fully encrypted. Encryption can greatly complicate the file recovery process. Our FileVault 2 data recovery efforts required lengthy procedures…
VMWare ESXi Data Recovery Case Study: 4-Drive RAID-5 Array
In this case, our client had four Western Digital WD6000BKHG-18A29V0 hard drives arranged in a RAID-5 array. On that array, they had stored several virtual machines. Data recovery from a virtual hard disk or virtual machine can be considered a…
Western Digital Raptor Hard Drive Repair
Before it even arrived we knew this Raptor hard drive repair case was going to be incredibly difficult. This was an unusual data recovery case for our cleanroom engineers. This Western Digital Raptor X hard drive had already been opened…
Dell Server Data Recovery: PowerEdge 2900 RAID 5 Data Loss
RAID 5: Overview A RAID array connects two or more hard drives together to make what is essentially a single giant hard drive. RAID arrays offer greater storage capacity, protection against data loss from individual drive failure, increased efficiency, or some combination…
Data Recovery Throwback: IBM DSOA-21080 and the Missing Screenplay
Drive Model: IBM DS0A-21080 Drive Capacity: 1080 MB Binary Read: 100% This client came to us with an ancient hard drive they’d had removed from an equally-archaic laptop and a story they needed to tell. Back in the 1990s, this…
Synology RAID-5 NAS Has Power Surge
This failed NAS device came to us from a nearby small business located in Fond du Lac. Their Synology DiskStation DS 1512+ NAS device had failed after a power surge. Inside their DiskStation was a 5-drive RAID-5 array. This NAS…
RAID 5 Video Demonstration: Salvaging Data with a Stale Drive
In this RAID 5 video blog, Brian Gill breaks down one of our recent RAID 5 data recovery cases. Our client sent in a 3 drive RAID 5 array for data recovery. One hard drive was perfectly healthy. However, two…
Clicking Seagate Hard Drive: When Backup Isn’t Backup
Here at Gillware, it isn’t uncommon to see a client come to us with a clicking Seagate hard drive filled with family photos and other files they need us to recover for them. Many people back up all of their critical data—and…
Deleted File Recovery Case Study: Western Digital RAID-1 Mirror
This client had two 500 gigabyte Western Digital WD5003ABYX-01WERA1 hard drives linked together in a RAID-1 array. Important database files had been erased from the array, and the client needed our deleted file recovery services. A RAID is a “redundant…