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.
How to Recover Data From an External Hard Drive
Portable external hard drives can fail and break down just like any other hard drive. In fact, due to their portability, they’re even more susceptible to being damaged by physical trauma, such as being dropped, than the drive inside your…
How to Recover Data From a Dead Hard Drive
When your hard drive dies, there’s very little you can do on your own. You can find a lot of DIY data recovery tips on the Internet, most of which are almost guaranteed to do more harm than good. But…
Raw Partition Recovery and Uninitialized Disks
When a hard drive suddenly shows up as “RAW disk format” or becomes “raw” or “uninitialized” due to some form of failure, it can take careful work by data recovery experts to retrieve the lost data from the drive. At…
Recover Lost Files With Gillware
There are a lot of different ways that hard drives can lose data, from physical issues in which the sensitive internal components break down to logical issues in which file system metadata becomes damaged or unreadable. Even disconnecting an external…
Recover Hard Drive Data With Gillware
Hard drives can lose data in a lot of different ways. Any number of physical issues can break down the drive’s sensitive internal components. Logical issues can render file system metadata damaged or unreadable. Even something as simple as disconnecting…
How to Fix a Hard Drive… The Gillware Way
Hard drives have come a long way from the fridge-sized monstrosities of the 1950s. They’re not just smaller. They pack orders of magnitude more data than the five-megabyte platters in the earliest hard drives could as well. Their tiny size…
Hard Drive Failure Recovery
Hard disk drives are really incredible inventions when you think about how much data they cram into such a small space (although that alone doesn’t seem too impressive now that we have solid state drives). The fact that a bunch…
Making Strong Passwords to Protect Your Data
Making strong passwords is hard work—but it’s worth it. Leaving your bank accounts, social media accounts, email accounts, and devices protected by insecure, easily-guessed, and easily-broken passwords in this day and age is a bit like leaving your front door…
WD MyCloud Data Recovery Case Study: The Cloud In Your Living Room
Your Own Personal Cloud… Is Still A Cloud WD MyCloud external drives are, as their name suggests, meant to give users their own little slice of “cloud storage”. Cloud data storage, like Google Drive or Dropbox, allows you to upload…