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.
NAS RAID Error code 0x80070035
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…
iMac Fusion Drive Recovery
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…
Hitachi Hard Disk with Corrupt MFT
The client in this data recovery case lost a lot of their data, including financial documents and family photos, when their PC’s Hitachi hard disk drive went belly-up and gave them a corrupt MFT error message. Fortunately for them, Gillware’s…
Western Digital Recovery: Unknown Device
You might think that your hard drive is most at risk of being dropped when it’s inside a portable external casing, or inside a laptop. Hard drives in desktops, you might think, should be relatively immune. And you would be…
Macbook Hard Drive Fails to Boot
Our client here in this Macbook data recovery case was in trouble. Their Macbook had served them well for years—but now it was toast. They would turn the Macbook on, and it would greet them with a gray screen. It…
Hard Drive History Lesson: The PC AT and CMI’s Burial at Sea
Hard disk drives might seem like a dry subject. But the history of hard disk drives and their evolution from five-megabyte fridge-sized monstrosities to five hundred gigabyte drives smaller than a deck of playing cards is anything but. In the…
Frozen Computer Repair: Fixing a Botched Recovery
Dealing with a frozen computer is bad enough on its own. What’s worse, though, is when the people you trust to fix the issue end up losing the important documents, pictures, music, and other types of data you had on…
Deleted Photo Recovery for Android Smartphones
It can happen to any of us. One swipe of the finger and you’ve just erased all those photos you took on your phone of your family’s trip to the Grand Canyon last summer. All those mementos of your vacation—gone.…
Damaged Hard Drive Recovery: A Magnetic Personality?
Our client in this data recovery case came to us with a dying hard drive. They had taken the external hard drive, which they’d used to store family photos and videos, to a local computer repair shop first. There, the…