Sometimes the backup you have isn’t the backup you need. And if you’re not careful, you could find that out the hard way. Such a thing happened to the client in this Western Digital data recovery case. When they dropped…
This Sunday, May 14, 2017, is Mothers’ Day. On this day, we honor and cherish the moms in our lives, including our mothers, our grandmothers, and the mothers of our children. There are a lot of ways we can celebrate all the hard…
Disk Self Testing: The Long and Short of It There are two sorts of Disk Self Test or DST, procedures a hard drive can undertake to gauge its health. Both of these tests measure how well the hard drive is…
Every once in a while, a DVR comes into Gillware’s data recovery lab to give our DVR video recovery specialists a challenge. Or, specifically, (usually) the hard drive from a DVR unit comes into Gillware’s lab. These things enter our…
The client in this data recovery case study had a Drobo unit on the fritz. The Drobo unit, a storage device produced by Data Robotics, could not be mounted on the client’s Mac. Drobo’s dashboard reported no failed hard drives,…
The client in this FileVault data recovery case study ended up in hot water when they decided to encrypt the data on their Macbook. The FileVault encryption process started up as normal and started implementing its full-disk encryption. And that’s…
This client came to us for our NAS array recovery expertise after losing the data from their Western Digital My Book Live Duo. The device had stopped responding and was no longer accessible. They pulled the My Book Live device’s…
The client in this data recovery case lost the data on their Seagate BlackArmor NAS device when the device became unresponsive. The NAS was not visible in Windows Explorer. Trying to force access the device prompted the Windows error code…
The client in this iMac data recovery case came to us after their computer broke down. It wouldn’t boot anymore, and the client’s local computer repair technicians couldn’t do anything about it. All of their data was locked on an…
